Our Excellence Programs
What Does Excellence Mean?
Excellence is not defined by publication performance alone, it also encompasses innovation, responsibility, diversity, and impact beyond disciplinary boundaries. In assessing excellence and providing guidance on how to present your achievements, we emphasize both dimensions.
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Our Commitment
A transparent and high-quality approach to evaluating scientific performance and individual potential, taking both pillars into account.
How We Foster Excellence
Within our Excellence Programs, we offer:
- Individual counseling and support
- Interdisciplinary perspectives
- An assessment of scientific performance in line with the principles of DORA
- A DEI-sensitive approach
Scientific Recognition as Part of Our Excellence Strategy
We honor outstanding achievements through prizes, awards, and specially tailored programs designed to make excellence visible, strengthen talent, and sharpen the research profile of Forschungszentrum Jülich. We provide targeted support to early-career researchers in shaping their work at the highest level. Our formats enable outstanding scientific development – at every stage of the career path.
DORA & DEI – Our Foundational Values
Forschungszentrum Jülich supports the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). Our goal is to ensure that research is evaluated fairly, transparently, and in all its diversity, independent of the Journal Impact Factor.
- Scientific quality is assessed not by the place of publication, but by the content and originality of the work.
- A broad range of research outputs (e.g. datasets, software, methods, open science contributions, community engagement) are taken into account.
- Qualitative criteria such as creativity, teamwork, or interdisciplinary approaches are also part of the assessment.
For us, excellence means quality, responsibility, and diversity. We foster excellence not only through our programs – we also provide guidance:
- when you apply for funding opportunities
- on how to present and highlight key excellence criteria
- in preparing applications and finding the right language