Starting from 2018 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports a total of three Max Planck Schools for the upcoming five years. The nationwide networks are supposed to strengthen and bundle the competences and expertise of a science research field. In this sense the MPSP focuses on investigations in the field of photonics, for example attosecond physics or quantum optics. In the framework of the school scientists and students from institutes of the four large German research organizations and seven universities will collaborate and study in an interdisciplinary environment. The school has its coordinating center in Jena. Here the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering, the Friedrich Schiller University, the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, and the Helmholtz Institute Jena are cooperating together. Further partners in Germany are six other universities, three Max Planck Institutes, one additional Fraunhofer Institute and the Helmholtz Center DESY.
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https://www.bmbf.de/de/exzellenz-neu-buendeln---start-fuer-erste-max-planck-schools-4729.html