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Qualitätsentwicklungen in der Wissenschaft

Quality developments in science

The scientific system is traditionally attested to a strong performance and quality ethos. In addition to a rather personal understanding of quality, a primarily systemic concept of quality has been taken into account in recent years. In the meantime, this concept has determined the scientific reform discourse like no other. The critical reflection of these developments and the generation of empirically proven knowledge and impulses for the design of quality assurance concepts will be a superior topic in the BMBF's funding priority "Science and Higher Education Research" in the coming years.

Quality developments in science (Meso-level)

The great importance of research and tertiary education is a central characteristic of modern knowledge societies and leads to a changed social positioning of the science system as a whole. However, the increased autonomy of the science-supporting institutions and new approaches to governance are accompanied by new demands on universities and non-university research institutions in terms of performance transparency, resource efficiency and accountability.

Quality developments in science I

In the coming years, the generation of empirically proven knowledge and impulses for the design of quality assurance concepts and their critical reflection will be a superior topic in the BMBF funding priority "Science and Higher Education Research". A first funding guideline dealing with institutional and organisational issues in the area of "Quality developments in science" was published on 21.3.2018.