Bavaria’s top-rated research community is a getting path-blazing institute. Groundbreaking in July 2009 for the facilities to house TU Munich’s Institute for Advanced Study. Located in Germany’s “ScienceCity” of Garching (a northern Munich suburb), the Institute is headed by star research Patrick Dewilde. Its staff is to include 90 “fellows”. From literally all around the world, these researchers share one key attribute: they are each the shakers and movers in their fields.
Sponsored by the BMW Group, the IAS was set up to enable these fellows to pursue their research under optimal conditions. The researchers get to select their objectives, team line-ups and timetables. They are free to work alone or together. Impetus for the founding of the IAS came from TU Munich’s being selected by the German government in 2005 to be one of the country’s three elite universities. These were then fast-tracked, via governmental support, for world-class development.
Source: Invest in Bavaria, Business Bavaria newsletter, Issue 1 2010
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