We did, fortunately, receive support for a similar grant from the European Union; the results of these studies have been or will be published this year, and they form the basis of an EU patent application. The referees of our unsuccessful DFG applications did not seem, to us, to be up-...
However, for the past eight years, there has been no success- ful application to the DFG for a medium-sized collaboration led by communication and media research. Neither has there ever been a successful application for a large research group in this field. The activities regarding collaborative...