Katharina Riedel is to become the new spokesperson for the Universities Member Group of the HRK. The microbiologist and Rector of the University of Greifswald was elected to succeedAnja Steinbeck in...
Read moreThe HRK has criticised surprising comments made to the media by the Federal Minister of Research Dorothee Bär, which suggest that the fundamental reform of the German Federal Training Assistance Act...
Read moreHRK President Walter Rosenthal has issued the following initial response to the draft bill on the amendment of the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz; WissZeitVG), which...
Read moreIn a joint statement, the HRK and its partner organisations from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain call on their respective governments and the European Commission to significantly...
Read moreResponding to public debate about the decision by the Rectorate of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf to permit a student-organised event on campus with artist Basma al-Sharif on her film works, HRK...
Read moreHow can European research be made more competitive globally? To address this question, the DFG, the HRK, and the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) presented a discussion...
Read moreThe President of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), Professor Walter Rosenthal, and Professor Angela Ittel, HRK Vice-President for International Affairs, Equal Opportunities and Diversity, have...
Read moreThe digitalisation of studying, teaching, research and administration as well as the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday university life are the focus of two projects of the HRK, which are...
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