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Making New Missions Possible

Obstacles for and Measures to Promote Research and Third Mission at German Universities of Applied Sciences

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German Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) (“Fachhochschulen”) are representatives of a special type of Higher Education Institutions (HEI), which also exists in some other European countries, e.g. in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, UK or Portugal.

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Hachmeister, CD., Duong, S., Roessler, I. (2016). Making New Missions Possible. In: Sarrico, C., Teixeira, P., Magalhães, A., Veiga, A., Rosa, M.J., Carvalho, T. (eds) Global Challenges, National Initiatives, and Institutional Responses. Higher Education Research in the 21st Century Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-675-0_5

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