Excellence initiative – Ivy League Dahoam

In odd years, sports fans lack the major international tournaments such as men’s football European Championship, World Cup or Olympics. So that no boredom arises, the press department of the Science Council recently reported on “Bluesky”, “that 15 universities can have hope of being selected as an excellence university in the new application process”. The fans should take notice: “The competition for top research and international visibility,” said the press office, “is more exciting than ever!”

And if that weren’t enough, there are hot transfer rumors in the science scene. The time-honored Harvard University is on the line of fire of the Trump regime and has so far not bent. “Never Waste A Good Crisis” seems to be the motto of the newly baked Minister of Culture Wolfram Weimer. The ancient conservative with imperial ambitions made Harvard offering the offer to open a campus in Germany. The exact conditions: unclear. But you shouldn’t let the good mood spoil of such details. At least that’s what the new Minister for Research, Technology and Space, Dorothee Bär (CSU). In the interview with the “Bild” newspaper, she confesses that, according to the ministerial social media department, please express BM futur-you are only concerned with “positive topics”.

Dazzling prospects, one would think that there would be no eternal naggers of the scene of scene, mostly in the middle of the university. They waste valuable life on social media under hashtags like #exitexzellenz to ask superfluous questions. For example: What does it actually cost if 15 universities are priority for a year to apply for five new places in the excellence sky?

The painting is similar to the structural condition of the universities. Who does it shed that the Telefunken high-rise, a large-scale construction of the Technical University of Berlin, has been out of operation for over a year because of water damage? The Excellence Seal for Berlin University Alliance is still available!

Then there is the never -ending debate #ichbinhanna. Long -term trained scientists from their own system are sent to the desert because the Science Time Contract Act determines a maximum period of time period? That doesn’t matter. There are top researchers from the United States on the market that are certainly burning to teach in Vechta or Erlangen history in teaching or introductions to organic chemistry.

And completely provincial: The indications that university financing is put together at the state level – and stops. It is not about fiscal political details, but about internationally visible excellence. Those who have visions are the right place in university policy: we create an Ivy League Dahoam – with rocket drive.Alexander Gallas