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LMUexcellent:
Working Brains – Networking Minds – Living Knowledge
LMU Munich is applying its institutional strategy LMU Munich attaches great importance to identifying and
LMUexcellent “Working Brains – Networking Minds – Living actively supporting excellent young academics: As one of
Knowledge” to boost academic excellence and further develop Germany’s first universities, we established our own tenure
its position as a leading German research university on an track system just a decade ago. LMUexcellent will provide
international level. outstanding assistant professors with the opportunity to be
Consequently, LMUexcellent focuses on creating an attractive tenured to permanent positions after having successfully
and globally competitive research environment through passed an evaluation of their excellence.
substantial investment: To address this, LMU Munich has All of this also includes cooperation with strong partners –
already implemented two new funding programs to provide whether with globally renowned research institutions, such
a first-rate infrastructure for cutting-edge research (“Invest- as the Max Planck Society, or the world’s leading research
ment Fund”) and encourage “outside-the-box thinkers” to universities. This year, LMU Munich has already sealed a
pursue highly novel research ideas (“High Potential Fund”). cooperation agreement in the Humanities with the Uni-
Moreover, LMU Munich appoints its most excellent profes- versity of California, Berkeley, and extended its collaboration
sors to research professorships giving them, for up to five with the University of Tokyo into the Natural Sciences.
years, the intellectual freedom to follow their pioneering
projects. Additionally, excellent academics from all over ResearchServices® – providing support for
the world are regularly invited to conduct research and excellent researchers
participate in graduate education at LMU Munich. Leading LMU Munich intends to enable researchers and junior
professors and young academics from LMU Munich as academics to entirely concentrate on their research projects:
well as distinguished visiting scholars from around the It is therefore about to establish ResearchServices®, a cen-
globe will soon have the opportunity to exchange their ter designed to bundle all services in support of research.
innovative ideas at the Center for Advanced Studies®. In addition to that, a GraduateCenter® will serve as the
They will benefit from regular events on multidisciplinary central coordinating and service center for structured gra-
topics and an extensive range of practical services. duate programs by developing an appropriate infrastruc-
ture as well as by recruiting and advising graduate students.
Attracting the most brilliant academics
woldwide
Through 2011, LMU Munich will receive additional funds of
180 million euros to promote the following programs:
Winning over internationally renowned researchers requires
suitable recruitment strategies. For this purpose,
LMUexcellent: Working Brains –
LMU
Networking Minds – Living Knowledge
Munich considerably curtails its appointment processes,
Graduate School: Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences
employs a highly selective head-hunting process for its
Clusters of Excellence: NIM: Nanosystems Initiative Munich
strategically most important research areas, and promotes
MAP: Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics
women academics on their paths to professorship by a
CIPSM: Center for Integrated Protein Science
Munich
dedicated “Equal Opportunities Concept.” We furthermore
And together with the Technische Universität München as the
provide assistance to dual career couples in exploring job
coordinating university:
opportunities for partners of appointed professors and
Origin and Structure of the Universe
CoTeSys – Cognition for Technical Systems
junior academics.
For more information on LMUexcellent, please go to:
www.en.lmu.de/lmu_excellent
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