Research group
A research group , also a research group , is the name of a scientific funding program of the German Research Foundation .
This program supports small groups of scientists who work together in a narrowly defined area on a question that could not be solved alone. So that the research group is a promoting eligible possibility of cooperation between scientists in size between the individual support / normal process of DFG and major projects such as a Collaborative Research Center is located. The program has existed since 1962 and was called the research group until 2018.
This program is intended to promote international and interdisciplinary collaboration between scientists and young scientists.
Research groups with the same name have existed for a long time , mostly denoting a subdivision of a university or academy institute . In some countries - e.g. B. in Austria - since the 1990s numerous small institutes have been merged into larger units, and the name of the earlier institutes has often changed to that of the current research groups.