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Important milestone achieved: The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) have invited two new initiatives of the University of Cologne to submit full proposals for Clusters of Excellence. The university is thus entering the competition for funding with a total of six proposals.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that two proposals for new Clusters of Excellence at the University of Cologne were successful in its preliminary evaluation and are now asked to submit full proposals. All full proposals, including those for the existing Clusters of Excellence, must be submitted to the DFG by August 2024.


“Our Dynamic Universe” is a new Cluster of Excellence initiative. The cooperation between the Universities Cologne and Bonn, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the German Aerospace Center is a world-class hub of expertise in radio astronomy. Dynaverse brings together researchers from Astrophysics, Computer Science and Mathematics. State-of-the-art facilities to which our team has priority access offer new ground-breaking opportunities (common projects and collaborations).


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Common Projects and Collaborations

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Project Leaders & Cooperation Partners

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Publications for the proposed Cluster

PhD-students will benefit from the graduate schools IMPRS, HDS-LEE and BCGS in Bonn and Cologne which have a strong heritage in bridging research activities and training of young scientists. BCGS has been established through the German Excellence Initiative, IMPRS forms a highly successful educational network between UoC, UB, and MPIfR. UoC, UB, FZJ, and DLR participate in the Helmholtz School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy, which provides an excellent setup for interdisciplinary PhD-level research in data-driven sciences.

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Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy

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International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Astrophysics

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