Tag: Science policy
Munich: Biotopia loses its founding director to the MIT Museum – Munich
Michael John Gorman worked on the opening of Biotopia for nine years – against a variety of resistance. Now the project is losing its founding director. The Irishman will in…
TU Munich is founding a center for art and culture – Munich
When the unsuspecting person thinks of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), they see in their mind’s eye cohorts of math nerds and people with all sorts of talents having…
Chemist Patrick Cramer is the new President of the Max Planck Society – Knowledge
The chemist Patrick Cramer is the new President of the Max Planck Society. Lack of young talent, gender equality, science denial: In an interview with the SZ, he explains how…
Bavaria: The second report also considers rent for the future museum to be appropriate – Bavaria
According to a second independent expert’s report, the future museum in Nuremberg is rented on “customary” and “plausible” contract terms. The calculation of the investor and landlord Gerd Schmelzer can…
Reviewer: Museum of the future very expensive, but not too expensive – Bavaria
According to a report, the Nuremberg Museum of the Future, to which a committee of inquiry in the state parliament is dedicated under the accusation of wasting tax money and…
Bavaria’s first Minister of Science Wolfgang Wild died – Bavaria
The former Bavarian Minister for Science and Art, Wolfgang Wild, is dead. He died at the age of 92. “With Wolfgang Wild we are losing a real mastermind and trailblazer,”…
Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation: Open letter and new inconsistencies – culture
From Jörg Haentzschel Two weeks after the SZ reports on dubious events at the Munich Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, the pressure on the house is increasing. In February, the…
Coronavirus: How Germany fares in pandemic communication – knowledge
Scientists have compared the procedure against the coronavirus in three countries: Germany, Sweden and Great Britain. In this country, measures are discussed particularly openly and widely. Why is that not…
Biotopia: Bavaria’s project to convey science – Munich
The need for an intelligible communication of scientific knowledge has never been so obvious to everyone as it is today. The failure on this point has hardly ever been so…