2022-2023 Multidisciplinary Health Research Experience (MHRE) Research Pitch Competition

Research Programme for 2018–2023

Its statutes give the IEG the task of conducting research into the traditions, transformations and crises especially of religious, political and social differentiations, their effects, and the possibilities for overcoming them. This mandate was fulfilled with the central theme of the research programme from 2012 to 2017, »negotiating differences in Europe«, by applying it to an interdepartmenta...

Multidisciplinary Research Methods Education via Sharing Experience

The goal is to contribute to the understanding, description, comparison and improvement of the different methods of research that have been employed in the information technology field by supporting the exchange of information, collaboration, and cooperation between researchers. We stress the importance of sharing knowledge through storytelling. Well-designed, well-told stories can help others ...

Competition in health research: the experience of the John Curtin School of Medical Research

BACKGROUND: In 2002 the Australian National Competitive Grants System was opened to the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University as part of a commitment to transparency, competitiveness, and collaboration in national research funding. RESULTS: The block grant to the John Curtin School of Medical Research had progressively eroded over many years. Access to the National...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!

Building multidisciplinary research

In his poetry, Walt Whitman sings, "I am large, I contain multitudes." Most healthy organisms are made up of a multitude of cells and cell types, but none of these cells acts alone. Likewise a cell in homeostasis contains many organelles, but none of these organelles work on their own. How these diverse cells and how these different organelles communicate with each other in time and space are s...