Science council: Why Germany needs a nat • Table.Briefings

Ferdi Schüth, Direktor Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung — Ferdi Schüth, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and Chair of the Research Committee of the German Council of Science and Humanities, is worried about research security in Germany.

The German Council of Science and Humanities recommends a fundamentally new approach to security-related research in light of growing security policy risks. Scientific institutions should be better protected against espionage, unwanted outflow of knowledge and political interference.

A „National Knowledge Security Platform,“ a „Strategic Dialogue Forum“ at the National Security Council and „Innovation Hubs“ for research with potential military applications – these are just some of the recommendations from the German Science and Humanities Council (WR) latest position paper „Science and Security in Times of Global Political Upheaval.“ Wolfgang Wick, Chairman of the Science Council, and Ferdi Schüth, Chairman of the Science Council’s Research Committee, presented the paper yesterday (Monday).

Science council: Why Germany needs a national knowledge security platform

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