![The team from the University of Münster was once again the largest group of participants.<address>© HSP - Sascha Talke</address>](http://www.uni-muenster.de/news/data/img/2024/06/14134-s623RoFT-webL.jpg)
![A team headed by Prof. Stephan von Delft from the University of Münster, has now been looking into the question of what effects different strategies for achieving an efficient and sustainable circular economy with lithium, cobalt and nickel for electric vehicles will have on the demand for materials in Europe.<address>© Michael Fousert on Unsplash</address>](http://www.uni-muenster.de/news/data/img/2024/06/14127-QbCZGkZ8-webL.jpg)
The two Clusters of Excellence, which the University of Münster has acquired as part of the federal and state Excellence Strategy, comprise faculties from the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The Department of Mathematics was successful with the Cluster of Excellence "Mathematics Münster: Dynamics - Geometry - Structure". The Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics", funded for the third time, comprises around 200 researchers in the humanities and social sciences from 20 disciplines.