Part Time Bosses – Rare in Europe’s Boardrooms

Social Science Research Center Berlin

Dual or tandem leadership – new models in working hours for management are often discussed in the media. Reality looks different. more info

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Child Care Reveals Great Potential

Ifo Institute

Child care is one of the most important instruments of family policy. In recent years, the spotlight in the political and public debate has fallen on subsidised child care for under three year-olds. more info

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CO2 removal can lower costs of climate protection

Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung

Directly removing CO2 from the air has the potential to alter the costs of climate change mitigation. more info

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Berlin on its way to climate neutrality

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Berlin aims to be climate neutral in the year 2050 – how this goal can be reached is to be shown by a team of experts from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). more info

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Combating the deathly Coronavirus

German Primate Center

Infection Biologists of the German Primate Center have identified host cell factors that activate the dangerous human coronavirus EMC and might be potential targets for therapeutic intervention. more info

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European Research Infrastructures help to solve air quality issues

17/05/2013 | Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research

Scientists have advocated for tightening the Air Quality Directive and expand research on air quality and climate change.   more info

Mineral dust enhances sulfate formation in clouds

15/05/2013 | Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung

Metal ions from natural mineral dust catalyze the formation of sulfate in clouds to a greater extent than previously thought. This was reported by an international team of researchers in the current... more info

Research data goes open access – Horizon 2020 will enable mandatory publication of research

15/05/2013 | Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Leading experts of European science formulate recommendations for the European Commission – Researchers are expected to give open access to their data within the framework of Horizon 2010.   more info

Separated Banking System Alone Not a Solution

13/05/2013 | German Institute for Economic Research

Many banks are now too big, complex, and closely networked to be wound up. When they get into difficulties, they threaten the entire financial system of their economic area. Five years of financial... more info

You are what (and where) you eat

13/05/2013 | Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research

Mercury is usually transferred across the food chain, so the researchers checked which items were the main source of food and measured mercury levels in the main prey of Arctic foxes.  more info

Sharp Drop in Youth Unemployment in Germany

10/05/2013 | German Institute for Economic Research

Youth unemployment in Germany has fallen to its lowest level since German reunification. However, this is not so much due to structural improvements or positive labor market growth than to... more info

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