Infrastructural Platforms (Core Facilities)
Infrastructural Platforms (Core Facilities) provide the equipment and structural conditions for initiating and carrying out multidisciplinary research projects. They support existing and developing collaborative research projects and are available to researchers of all departments and sections. Infrastructural Platforms will initially be set up for a period of two years.
Network Platforms
Network Platforms are set up at the initiative of researchers from Konstanz. They include a thematically clustered series of round-table discussions and workshops that bring researchers from Konstanz and/or external researchers together in order to work on a shared topic over a long-term period. In the medium term, Network Platforms can be used to initiate collaborative projects with third-party funding. A later transfer into a Research Initiative is also possible.
Transfer platforms
Transfer platforms provide support to research projects involving partners from industry, public institutions or organisations and can be used to prepare innovative spin-offs. They are primarily a form of start-up funding, and will be established for an initial period of two years.