Universities on the university funding agreement 2021-2025

Reliable planning security The key framework for university funding between 2021 and 2025 has been put in place with the signing of the university funding agreement. The Rector of the University of Stuttgart, Prof. Wolfram Ressel, gave his opinion after months of negotiations came to an end. "The university funding agreement for 2021-2025 gives universities in the state of Baden-Württemberg - including the University of Stuttgart - the great advantage of planning security. The agreement reached today is reasonable and important, because the state's tax revenue looks set to decline as a consequence of the corona crisis. This means that we will largely be able to avoid any financial uncertainties or serious disadvantages for the next five years. Even so, we won't be able to maintain the increases in our budget which were necessary over the past few years. On the contrary, we need to be prepared to make savings." "We drove a hard bargain in the interests of our students, teaching staff and researchers", said the Rector of the University of Hohenheim Prof. Stephan Dabbert, the newly-elected Chairman of the State Rectors' Conference.