Quality assurance
In order to ensure high quality throughout the entire process, the Volkswagen Foundation and the Scientific Commission of Lower Saxony use well established procedures, for example in the form of (inter)national review panels for project selection.
The Strategy Advisory Board accompanies the implementation of the program and advises the Ministry and the Foundation on further development.
Members of the Strategy Advisory Board
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Prof. Dr. Cornelia Denz
Experimental physicist and President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig
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Prof. Dr. Kharim Khakzar
Electrical engineer and President of Hochschule Fulda University of Applied Sciences
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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lehnhoff
Professor of Energy Informatics and Chairman of the Board of OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology, University of Oldenburg
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Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen
Art historian, Leuphana University Lüneburg
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Prof. Dr. Claudia Stockinger
Institute for German Literature, Humboldt University zu Berlin
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Treue
Neuroscientist and Director of the German Primate Center, Göttingen
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