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Research Cooperation
Cooperation and Communication within the Institute
Exchanging Information
The institute has made strong efforts in recent years to enhance the exchange of
information on current work among its researchers and staff. The institute’s projects
were grouped into project clusters, enabling the directors to intensify contacts
with and between the researchers working in their respective area. Improved
supervision of doctoral candidates by the directors and several senior researchers
has increased the chance that doctoral theses will be completed in time. In part as
a result of the bi-weekly colloquium for doctoral candidates, but also of the closer
attachment of doctoral research to larger collaborative projects, interaction
between the doctoral candidates themselves has significantly increased.
Generally, more researchers than in the past are now attached to projects in
which they cooperate with others at the MPIfG. Groups working together prepare
and conduct conferences with collaborators from other research institutions. The
many international conferences and workshops at the institute are vital to the
exchange of ideas between the institute and the scientific community.
For better exchange of information, there is on average one in-house project
presentation a month. All researchers at the institute are expected to attend. A
half-day workshop is scheduled when a major project has been completed, to discuss
jointly the implications of its results for the future development of the
MPIfG’s research program. All visitors and postdoctoral fellows introduce them-
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