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12 February 2026|News PIER PLUSCall open: PIER Seed Projects
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 new research ideas, concepts or methods. The funding programme is aimed in...
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4 February 2026|Research14 million euros for the development of a fusion energy laser
A research team from five institutes, coordinated by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY and the University of Hamburg, is receiving millions in funding for the IFuEL project (short for Inertial Fusion Energy Laser Development and HED-Analytics). The project aims to develop and test a highly efficient and scalable laser...
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28 January 2026|News PIER PLUSNorth German Science Award open for applications
The North German Science Award (Norddeutscher Wissenschaftspreis) 2026 is jointly awarded by the five federal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Lower Saxony for North German collaborations in various scientific fields. This year, projects from the life sciences are eligible to apply.
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19 January 2026|News PIER PLUSConstruction begins on the Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory (HAFUN)
With a ceremonial groundbreaking today, Senator for Science Maryam Blumenthal, Senator for Finance Dr. Andreas Dressel, President of the University of Hamburg Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, Martin Sowinski, Managing Director of Sprinkenhof GmbH, and Prof. Dr. Erika Garutti from the Institute of Experimental Physics at the UHH...
PIER PLUS Profiles
The operational collaboration between PIER PLUS partners is currently coordinated on the basis of six different scientific profiles. The profiles are characterized by their interdisciplinary and multi-perspective approach and are particularly relevant to Hamburg. Working within these profiles, the region’s key academic institutions play their part in addressing each topic, thereby adding a new structural level to the long-standing and diverse partnerships that already exist in Hamburg.
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