Scientist Integration Program

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The Scientist Integration Program (WIP) was a funding program of the federal government and the federal states of Berlin , Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia that ran from 1992 to 1996 in Germany as part of the University Renewal Program (HEP) . It was based on proposals from the Science Council of July 5, 1991 and had the permanent integration of the employees at the institutes of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR , the Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the GDR , the Building Academy of the GDR as well as institutions comparable to these institutes in the universities in target countries. For this purpose, both temporary staff positions and research projects were financed for the employees concerned, and the establishment of working groups at the universities was promoted.

Goal and implementation

The WIP was agreed through an agreement between the federal government and the federal states “on a joint renewal program for universities and research in the new federal states (HEP)”. Following the recommendations of the Science Council, the assumption was made that the universities in the GDR and the non-university academy institutes had as far as possible a separation of scientific tasks with regard to teaching and research , and that there was thus one at the universities in the GDR there would be a pronounced deficit in the field of research. This view was based on the objectives of the GDR science policy, which had been formulated in 1968 as part of the third university reform in the GDR. This assumption resulted in the aim of the WIP to return research from the non-university institutions to the universities.

The total scope of the program from 1992 to 1996 was around 600 million DM with a federal contribution of around 500 million DM. A total of around 1,500 scientists were funded.

Results and continuation

The goal of permanent integration was largely not achieved, only around every sixth of the scientists funded by the WIP achieved a permanent position. By contrast, around a third became unemployed at the end of the program, around 40 percent continued to work for a limited period on the basis of various types of financing, and around five percent dropped out through early retirement or other socially acceptable ways. The only exception was the state of Thuringia, in which 132 of 142 WIP-funded scientists achieved permanent employment.

A partial follow-up financing of WIP projects took place from 1997 to 2000 in the program part "Funding of innovative research projects in the new federal states and Berlin" of the university special program III (HSP III) and from 2001 to 2006 within the framework of the university science program 3 (HWP 3) "Promotion of innovative research structures in the new federal states and in Berlin".

literature

  • Gerd Köhler: Scientist Integration Program (WiP). Services and perspectives. (= Materials and documents. University and Research, Volume 80), Union of Education and Science: Frankfurt / Main 1996.
  • Wolfgang Hansen: WIP - Scientist Integration Program or Scientist with no prospects? In: Physical sheets. 52 (5 )/1996. German Physical Society, p. 420, ISSN  1617-9439