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"Third-party funding in a nutshell" / "Drittmittelkompetenz kompakt"

Event series by the Department 6: Research affairs of the University of Münster

In the next months, SAFIR will organize the event series "Third-party funding in a nutshell" / "Drittmittelkompetenz kompakt".

The event series will take place in the winter semester 2018/2019 and is aimed at researchers in Faculties 1 - 4 and 6 - 15. The focus of the individual events is on the search for funding, practical information on how to apply for funding as well as legal and administrative aspects of third-party funding. For the first time, some of the events will be in English.

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Centre's board re-elected

general assembly confirms board for another 2 years

The third general assembly of the WWU Centre for Europe was convened on 24 September 2018. The centre's members have confirmed the board for another 2 year term. The confirmed members of the board are Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Dr. h.c. Jörg Becker, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz, Prof. Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, Prof. Dr. Annette Zimmer and Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren. Professor Becker was also confirmed as the spokesman of the board.

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RECONNECT

New H2020-Project at the University of Münster

RECONNECT is a four-year multidisciplinary research project on ‘Reconciling Europe with its Citizens through Democracy and the Rule of Law’. The project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 framework programme for research and innovation. With an explicit focus on strengthening the EU’s legitimacy through democracy and the rule of law, RECONNECT aims to understand and provide solutions to the recent challenges faced by the European Union.

Researchers prove the origin of a cosmic neutrino for the first time

Elementary particles come from three billion light years away galaxy / Black hole as particle accelerator

An international "astronomical ring search" is now crowned with success: A team of researchers has located a cosmic source of high-energy neutrinos for the first time in an observation campaign. The search was triggered by a single high-energy neutrino detected on 22 September 2017 in the Antarctic ice by the neutrino telescope "IceCube". Telescopes on earth and in space then determined the origin of this elementary particle. It is located in a galaxy three billion light years away in the constellation of Orion, in which a gigantic black hole acts as a natural particle accelerator.

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“The ruling means the death of modern genetic techniques in plant breeding”

An interview with biotechnologist Prof. Dirk Prüfer on the ruling by the European Court of Justice on new techniques of breeding plants

On 25 July the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave its long-awaited ruling on new techniques of breeding plants. The judges decided that these new techniques fall under the stringent EU legislation regulating genetically edited organisms. This means that plants produced using the new techniques known as gene editing will have to undergo a safety test for example before they can be approved, and there will be labelling requirements for foodstuffs modified in such a way. Christina Heimken spoke to Prof.

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Head of the WWU Centre for Europe invited as expert by European Parliament

Professor Becker shares expertise on public procurement with MEPs

On July 10th, 2018, Jörg Becker was invited as an expert by the European Parliament (EP) to contribute to the work of the EP committee for internal market and consumer protection (IMCO). In the morning Professor Becker participated in a EP roundtable on the role of independent expertise and science in the legislative process.

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