Objectives and Tasks

Education and research are the foundations for our future. The promotion of education, science and research by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research represents an important contribution to securing our country's prosperity.

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Our task begins with early learning and includes continuing education and training, whilst school education and university teaching fall under the remit of the Länder. We share responsibility with the Länder in the fields of non-school vocational training and continuing education as well as in promoting training. The Ministry is also responsible for research funding, supporting the specially gifted, promoting up-and-coming scientists and funding international exchanges in the fields of initial and continuing training, higher education and research.

The BMBF has introduced important measures to strengthen education, research and innovation in Germany under the High-Tech Strategy for Germany and the National Qualification Initiative. We have significantly expanded our activities to promote talented and up-and-coming young scientists, have provided new momentum in the research landscape with our Initiative for Excellence and have created new jobs by introducing innovative technologies and services. We are continuing the Higher Education Pact, the Initiative for Excellence and the Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation in association with the Länder. We are offering every generation - whether old or young - the opportunity to develop their full potential. What we need are dynamic, spirited and well-qualified men and women who will introduce the innovations of the future in Germany. It is our aim to maintain Germany's competitiveness and to do so we need a new culture of innovation which embraces all areas of society.

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