Verena Shiffermann, Director of the DAAD Information Centre Tel Aviv in Israel speaks about the Israeli higher education landscape in times of COVID-19.

We spoke to Prof. Dr. Hosam Refai, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development at the Helwan University in Cairo.

Dr Katharina Kraus, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame (USA), tells about the effects of Corona on her work situation.

Nada Konickova, head of National Information Centre for European Research at the Technology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, gives an overview.

Bettina Schuffert, Program Officer at DFG in Washington (USA), reports in an interview on the current situation in the USA.

In order to find out how the corona virus affects academic education and research in Denmark, we talked to Stefan Pfattheicher, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences at the Aarhus University in Aarhus (Denmark)

What are the implications of the coronavirus for the European Commission? Read the interview with Elisa Gerussi, Economic and Policy Analyst.

We spoke with Lena Leumer, Director of the DAAD Information Centre in Accra (Ghana).

Baden-Württemberg and the state’s public universities have agreed on the funding of universities for the next five years up to 2025.

The “Freiburg Rising Stars Academy” receives 100,000 Euros in funding from the German Research Foundation in order to promote international cooperation.

The programme represents the flagship of its commitment to first class training and education.

With 18 of 52 Consolidator Grants, Baden-Württemberg is the most successful country in the EU Research Council's Europe-wide competition.