Twofold success: German Research Foundation funds two Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) from the fields of Medicine and Mathematics
A great success at the University of Münster: The German Research Foundation (DFG) will be providing 6.5 million euros to fund the new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) “Geometry: Deformations and Rigidity” at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science. The existing CRC 1009 “Breaking Barriers – Immune cells and pathogens at cell/matrix barriers” will continue to receive funding from the DFG, amounting to more than 10 million euros. The new funding period for both projects will begin in July this year and run for the next four years.
Collaborative Research Centres are long-term university-based research institutions, established for up to 12 years, which are funded by the German Research Foundation. They make it possible to pursue innovative and demanding research projects. Including this latest project, the University of Münster is currently the host or leading partner of eight Collaborative Research Centres. Münster University researchers are also involved in many other cross-university CRCs.