Not only the level of support students receive varies from country to country, but also the way their respective support package is composed. The costs of students are distributed across public and private entities, and may come along in cash as...

The grants of the European Research Council (ERC) aim to support »frontier research«. In other words, they encourage the pursuit of questions at or beyond the frontiers of knowledge, without regard for established disciplinary boundaries. ERC...

What importance does competition assume in state models for performance-based funding in German higher education? This is the guiding question of this presentation. With a view to answering it the presentation commences by introducing shortly...