Higher Education and Research

Seven companies and institutes in Germany are working full speed on vaccines against Covid-19, with some projects well advanced.

Exchange on the virtual campus: because of the Corona crisis, German universities are starting the summer semester with online courses.

The coronavirus is making us inventive: how German universities are helping to master the pandemic with small innovations.

Environmental protection and the prevention of pandemics go hand in hand. The virologist Sandra Junglen explains why.

What kinds of restrictions are meaningful during the corona crisis? This is what virologists would like to find out in the small municipality of Heinsberg.

The Corona crisis presents many international students in Germany with new challenges.

Researchers worldwide are working flat out on a vaccine against the coronavirus. And German expertise is in demand.

Christian Drosten – Germany's government and population are listening to the researcher from the Berlin Charité in the corona crisis.

Preventing oil pollution: Israeli-German research team is developing an early warning system for marine disasters

Data and climate are her topic: Kelsey Barton-Henry from the USA explains why she is doing her doctorate at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Psychology professor Jule Specht is active on research and science policy issues – and calls for greater gender equality.

Here you can find out who actively supports equal opportunity for women in German research.