"Procedures for Dealing with
Cross-Disciplinary Proposals
Research proposals that straddle, or fall between, the remits of the Astronomy and Particle Physics Grants Panels, such as those in astroparticle physics or gravitational physics, have sometimes presented difficulties for PPARC's peer-review process. To help avoid such problems, the Science Committee, at its meeting on 19 October 1998, agreed the following procedures for how PPARC should in future deal with these
cross-disciplinary proposals: " [Quelle 1:
http://www.scitech.ac.uk/SciProg/Other/PPAstr...]
"Collaborative Research Centres (Sonderforschungsbereiche, SFB) are long-term university research centres in which scientists and researchers work together within a
cross-disciplinary research programme. Collaborative Research Centres concentrate the resources, knowledge, and skills available at a university to enable comprehensive research projects to be carried out. The programme pursues the structural goal of forming core research areas at a university (‘location principle’)." [Quelle 2:
http://www.gsf.de/SFB/index_en.phtml]
"Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB) sind langfristig angelegte Forschungseinrichtungen der Hochschulen, in denen Wissenschaftler im Rahmen eines
fächerübergreifenden Forschungsprogramms zusammenarbeiten. Sonderforschungsbereiche ermöglichen die Bearbeitung umfassender Forschungsvorhaben durch Konzentration der in einer Hochschule vorhandenen Kräfte. Strukturziel ist die Schwerpunktbildung in einer Hochschule ("Ortsprinzip")." [Quelle 3:
http://www.gsf.de/SFB/index.phtml]
