"The generous funding agreements for universities and research agreed by the previous government last June will be maintained. So the budgets of major research organizations, including the Max Planck Society and the DFG, Germany's main research granting agency, will rise by 5% a year until 2015. Universities will receive a €5-billion (US$7.4-billion) supplement between 2011 and 2015 to improve teaching and research." - Björn Brembs from Bookmarklet