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Six centres of excellence for former East Germany

Under the programme 'Centres for innovation competence. Creating excellence - ensuring talent' the government of Germany will fund six centres of excellence. They are located in Dresden, Leipzig, Greifswald, Rostock, Jena and Ilmenau, all cities in the former DDR.

The centres will receive between four and ten million euro each in the next 5 years.

The centres conduct research in a range of fields:
- laser therapy for cancer;
- robotic and computer-assisted surgery;
- catalysts research;
- optics research.

The funding was granted after the centres convinced a jury of their strategy for becoming internationally competitive research centres.

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