At its meeting on 5 July 2005 the Grants Committee on General Research Funding of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) approved funding for 11 new Research Units. In these interdisciplinary research groups several researchers and scientists collaborate to study a specific research topic over a period of six years. The DFG Research Unit programme seeks to promote the collaboration of outstanding researchers, thus also creating new areas of research at universities. Approximately €14.5 million has been made available to the newly established units for the next three years, with prospective funding for a further three years.
