{"id":579,"date":"2007-01-12T12:17:19","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/science-elite-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:40:11","slug":"science-elite-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/science-elite-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Science elite in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three German universities that have been elected into an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/unispiegel\/studium\/0,1518,442428,00.html\">excellence<\/a> cluster. This oracle isn\u00c2\u00b4t too bad for me ;-) as I have been raised close to the first and teached at both other universities.<br \/>\nYes, I agree, there are some differences but &#8211; as science is done mainly by individuals or at least local teams &#8211; the differences are not so large and this election (for whatever criteria) doesn&#8217;t have so much meaning.<br \/>\nI believe, however, there will be some self-fulfilling prophecy, as on the longterm run these Universities will attract more excellent people &#8211; a point being missed in the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/unispiegel\/studium\/0,1518,453954,00.html\">discussion<\/a>. Yea, yea.<\/p>\n<h3>Addendum<\/h3>\n<p>Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/unispiegel\/studium\/0,1518,459273,00.html\">8 universitites<\/a> enter the club: HU Berlin, FU Berlin, G\u00f6ttingen, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Konstanz, Aachen and Bochum.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 06.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three German universities that have been elected into an excellence cluster. This oracle isn\u00c2\u00b4t too bad for me ;-) as I have been raised close to the first and teached at both other universities. Yes, I agree, there are some differences but &#8211; as science is done mainly by individuals or at least local teams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/01\/science-elite-in-germany\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science elite in Germany<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,574,573,218],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history-insights","tag-elite","tag-german_universities","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}