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3 March 2025|News PIER PLUS

“We are pooling our strengths”

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Photo: PIER PLUS/Hohenwarter

The PIER PLUS scientific platform brings together 22 Hamburg universities and research institutions that cooperate closely in six specialized profiles, but also in overarching common fields of action. One of these common fields is “PIER Computing and...

20 February 2025|News PIER PLUS

New Ecosystem Models

Photo: Luisa Listmann

A project on phytoplankton funded by the PIER PLUS Seed Fund is now contributing to the improvement of marine ecosystem models – the project focused on the role of marine viruses and their behavior under rising temperatures.

14 February 2025|News PIER PLUS

PIER PLUS funding line for “Calls for Transfer” launched

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Photo: Rea Alp - Calls for Transfer

The eleventh round of Calls for Transfer (C4T) starts on 15 February 2025. For the first time, a dedicated C4T PIER PLUS funding line will extend the funding horizon this year.

11 February 2025|News PIER PLUS

Call open: PIER Seed Projects

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PIER Seed Projects promote innovative research ideas of early career scientists in the PIER research fields. It provides rapid and non-bureaucratic seed funding for the identification, initiation, development, testing and implementation of completely...

27 January 2025|News PIER PLUS

Call for Nominations: Hamburg Science Prize 2025

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The Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg is inviting nominations for the Hamburg Science Prize for the ninth time. The topic of the competition for 2025 is immunomodulation.

20 January 2025|News PIER PLUS

PIER PLUS Steering Committee and Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Exchange Views

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Photo: Universität Hamburg/PIER PLUS

In November 2024, the PIER PLUS Steering Committee met for the 11th time. Dr. Malte Heyne, Managing Director of the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce, was also a guest.

6 June 2024|News PIER PLUS

On 1 June 2024, the first Science City Day took place. More than 15,000 people came to Bahrenfeld to discover the new science district in the west of Hamburg. DESY, Universität Hamburg, and many further institutions on campus were there with a lot of...

6 June 2024|News PIER PLUS

PIER PLUS Workshop on "Green Mobility" at Hamburg University of Technology

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On May 13, 2024, PIER Climate-Friendly Mobility, under the initiative of the two spokespersons Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Kaltschmitt (TUHH) and Prof. Dr. Thomas Klassen (Hereon/HSU), invited to a workshop on "Green Mobility" at Hamburg University of...

10 November 2023|News PIER PLUS

EMBL has now become a new associated partner in the profile of PIER Health and Infection

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In a significant step towards intensifying research collaboration within PIER PLUS, EMBL has now become a new associated partner in the profile of PIER Health and Infection.

18 November 2022|News PIER PLUS

PIER Day 2022

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On November 18, 2022, the PIER DAY took place on the Bahrenfeld Campus. The aim of the event was to present the recent and current joint research activities of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) and the Universität Hamburg (UHH). In...

15 November 2022|News PIER PLUS

Science Prize of Northern Germany goes to Material Scientists in Hamburg

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The CIMMS (Center For Integrated Multiscale Materials Systems) has won the Science Prize for Northern Germany. This is the second time in a row the prize is won by a collaborative project from Hamburg. Here, researchers from the Hamburg University of...

14 March 2022|News PIER PLUS