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PIER PLUS

PIER PLUS

PIER PLUS promotes and strengthens collaboration and networking between Hamburg’s universities and independent research institutes. The partners in PIER PLUS cooperate in six profiles that are orientated towards current research questions and topics.

The PIER PLUS profiles are supplemented by five common fields of action that are relevant to all research fields. They relate to the areas of Computing & Data Science, Innovation & Knowledge Exchange, Science Communication, Support of Early Career Researchers and Research Infrastructure.

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11 July 2025|Transfer

Hamburg wins startup competition

Germany needs more spin-offs from the scientific community in order to remain economically competitive on an international level. Promoting innovation and start-ups is therefore one of the federal government's key objectives. In the highly endowed "Startup Factories" competition organized by the Federal Ministry of...

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Photo: PIER PLUS/Hohenwarter

20 June 2025|News PIER PLUS

Senator Blumenthal visited the PIER PLUS Steering Committee

The meeting of the PIER PLUS Steering Committee in May 2025 was all about strengthening Hamburg as a science hub. Senator Maryam Blumenthal gave the keynote speech at the meeting, and the partners discussed closer coordination with regard to scientific career paths.

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17 June 2025|News PIER PLUS

UKE joins PIER PLUS

PIER PLUS promotes and strengthens cooperation and networking between universities and non-university research institutions in Hamburg. The Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is now the 23rd member to formally join the network.

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PIER Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld
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PIER Health and Infection
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PIER Climate and Coast
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