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FZ Jülich and RWTH Aachen create Jülich Aachen Research Alliance Federation and country welcome trend-setting research alliance between two strong partners.
The Federal Ministry for education and research and the Ministry for innovation, science, research and technology of North Rhine-Westphalia declare: Innovation Ministers Professor Andreas Pinkwart and Thomas Rachel, parliamentary undersecretary of state in the federal Ministry of Research, appreciate the “Jülich Aachen Research Alliance” JARA. “This research alliance between two strong partners is trend-setting”, said Pinkwart and Rachel. On today's Monday the rector of the RWTH Aachen, Professor Burkhard Rauhut and the chairman of the board of the research center Jülich, Professor Achim Bachem, have signed the contract for JARA in Duesseldorf. The university and the research center, which have together a budget of more than 900 million euro per annum. At first they want to network their research ranges in brain research, simulation sciences and information technology. these three sections should have a partnership guidance structure, force their aims of research and define and arrange personal and investment decisions together. “Before JARA the research center Jülich and the RWTH Aachen operate everyone for itself. By JARA they join their forces. That makes the region Aachen/Jülich a major research location in Europe, which is world-wide well known”, said Minister Pinkwart. “With this cooperation the research in North Rhine-Westphalia developing well. It is an important grade on the way to the innovation country No. 1”, said Pinkwart. Rachel said: “JARA breaks to completely new ground within co-operation between universities and non-university research facilities. Because of its research and the education benefits for scientists, it should be a role model for the rest of Germany.” To create these incentives, is an important request of the federal Ministry of Research. Rachel encouraged the research center Jülich and the RWTH Aachen to expand their strategic cooperation in other scopes.