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Budget
Vital investments in
education and research are a top priority as we urgently need
investments
in the present economic crisis. They can help us overcome the crisis
and emerge from it stronger and with new ideas. The Federal Government
makes an important contribution towards this goal: With a total volume
of €10.9 billion, the BMBF's budget for 2010 shows an increase over
the budget for 2009 of €750 million, or more than 9%. Education and
research have thus become firmly established in the federal budget
despite
today's difficult financial situation.
Draft budget for 2010
The draft budget for
2010 includes additional investments of €750 million for education
and research - a first step towards realizing the goals defined in the
Coalition Agreement, which provides that the Federal Government will
make an additional €12 billion available for these vitally important
areas in the current legislative period. The budget of the Federal
Ministry
of Education and Research for 2010 will thus increase by about 6.9%
to a total of approximately €10.9 billion compared with the previous
year.
This ensures continued
funding of the Pact for Higher Education, the Initiative for Excellence,
and the Pact for Research and Innovation. Between 2011 and 2013, the
Federal Government will provide additional funding of roughly €2.5
billion for these central initiatives. Funding for the Higher Education
Pact will increase by 33% to €509 million next year; the money will
specifically be spent to create new study places.
Federal funds made
available
to strengthen lifelong learning will increase by 54% to €215 million.
Expenditure on projects to modernize and strengthen vocational training
will almost double (i.e. they will increase by roughly 95%) and reach
a record level of €190 million. These funds will be used among other
things to offer improved career orientation to pupils from grade 7 and
to modernize intercompany training centres.
Furthermore, the budget
provides a financial basis for setting new directions at all levels
to ensure the future viability of the education system. Early childhood
education and language tuition as well as individual support for
low-achievers
will be expanded. Training assistance under the BAföG law will be
improved
and a national scholarship programme introduced to help particularly
young people from non-academic families enter university. The Federal
Government is committed to improving academic teaching, student-teacher
ratios and mobility and wants to agree a whole set of Bologna mobility
and quality measures with the Länder.
The High-Tech Strategy
will be developed further to encourage more innovation in sunrise
sectors.
Project funding for such promising areas as life sciences, climate,
environment and new technologies will increase by almost 13% over the
previous year to a total of approximately €1.6 billion.
The amount provided for projects in the life sciences will increase by approximately 10% to almost half a billion Euros. In the area of climate and energy, which will see an increase by roughly 7% to €380 million, and in the area of new technologies, funding for innovative battery technologies will be retained at a level that is likely to promote electric mobility and enhance climate protection. Project funding for new technologies will increase by roughly 14% to over €700 million. Strengthening top-class research and innovation is the objective of a funding priority for the East German Länder. An additional €15 million will be provided so that the funding volume of this area will increase to €137 million. Forward-looking projects in the East German Länder will also receive considerable amounts from other BMBF funding programmes.