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Wiley and Projekt DEAL partner to enhance the future of scholarly research and publishing in Germany
Contract signing: Dr. Guido Herrmann, Managing Director Wiley-VCH, and Dr. Frank Sander, Managing Director Max Planck Digital Library Services (Picture credits: dpa, Tanja Marotzke)

Wiley and Projekt DEAL partner to enhance the future of scholarly research and publishing in Germany

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a global leader in research and education, announced today a countrywide partnership agreement with Projekt DEAL, a representative of nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany. Under an annual fee, this transformative three-year agreement provides all Projekt DEAL institutions with access to read Wiley’s academic journals back to the year 1997, and researchers at Projekt DEAL institutions can publish articles open access in Wiley’s journals. The partnership will better support institutions and researchers in advancing open science, driving discovery, and developing and disseminating knowledge. More

EU financial planning: German, French and Polish Rectors' Conferences emphasise the importance of universities

EU financial planning: German, French and Polish Rectors' Conferences emphasise the importance of universities

The German (HRK), French (CPU) and Polish (CRASP) Rectors' Conferences welcome the commitment of EU bodies to negotiating the research, education and structural funding programmes for the years 2021-2027 quickly and effectively. The European Council has already stated its position on the proposals of the EU Commission. It is expected that the EU Parliament will soon comment on EU financial planning.More

Vienna Declaration: European rectors' conferences make the case for academic freedom and university autonomy
The presidents of 10 European Rectors´ Conferences sign Vienna Declaration (Photo: Österreichische Universitätenkonferenz/APA-Fotoservice/Godany)

Vienna Declaration: European rectors' conferences make the case for academic freedom and university autonomy

Solidarity for academic freedom and university autonomy: At a meeting, the presidents of ten European rectors' conferences stressed the crucial significance of academic freedom, academic integrity in teaching and research, and the autonomy of universities. In their joint declaration "Universities for Enlightenment", the university peak bodies from Austria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerlandreiterate the social responsibility of universities. More

Challenges and Future Prospects for the Internationalisation of German Universities – Annual Conference of the project HRK EXPERTISE Internationalisation

Challenges and Future Prospects for the Internationalisation of German Universities – Annual Conference of the project HRK EXPERTISE Internationalisation

What are the current framework conditions and challenges for the internationalisation of German universities? How does the German higher education system compare with the rest of the world? What future prospects for action and development opportunities can be identified? Around 200 university leaders, staff from international offices, researchers, teachers and representatives of science ministries and organisations will discuss these questions today and tomorrow at the annual conference of the project HRK EXPERTISE Internationalisation of the HRK in Berlin. More

Springer Nature and DEAL: Considerable progress in negotiations

Springer Nature and DEAL: Considerable progress in negotiations

Springer Nature and Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany have made considerable progress in their negotiations on a groundbreaking model for publishing and reading scientific literature, as the project’s negotiation leader Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler, and Dagmar Laging, Vice President Institutional Sales Europe at Springer Nature both report. The joint objective of Springer Nature and Project DEAL is to bring negotiations to a successful conclusion by mid-2019 at the latest. More

Student numbers at new record high: successor to Higher Education Pact more vital than ever before

Student numbers at new record high: successor to Higher Education Pact more vital than ever before

In response to the latest figures issued by the Federal Statistical Office concerning students at German universities, the President of the German Rectors' Conference, Professor Dr Peter-André Alt, has commented: "Student numbers have been breaking records for more than ten years. This year, a new record high has been reached with almost 2.9 million students. Once again it is clear that the growth in student numbers was not a one-off effect of the doubling of the number of young people achieving the Abitur qualification; instead it is largely attributable to the greater participation in education."More