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Does Size Matter? – The Example of the “Excellence Initiative” and its Impact on Smaller Universities in Germany

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The German Excellence Initiative (GEI) was introduced in 2007 with the aim of considerably increasing excellence in university research. It is a strategic, government-led response to the fact that research and higher education are becoming increasingly global, competitive for reputation, funding, professors and students – and therefore dependent on the prestige and visibility of the institutions in which they are carried out.

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Gaehtgens, C. (2015). Does Size Matter? – The Example of the “Excellence Initiative” and its Impact on Smaller Universities in Germany. In: Pritchard, R.M.O., Klumpp, M., Teichler, U. (eds) Diversity and Excellence in Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-172-4_2

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