Klement Tockner

Internationalism, competition driven by quality, a thematic and regional focus and an emphatically research-friendly „culture“ are fundamental prerequisites for recruiting the best, most creative people. We must measure up to this competition, now more than ever a worldwide phenomenon, if it is our wish to remain in a knowledge-based society and become innovation leaders.

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Klement Tockner
President of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Freshwater ecologist, former director of the largest freshwater research institute (IGB) in Germany. Member of the Austrian and of the German Academy of Sciences, counsellor for global research organizations. [Photo: © FWF/Martin Lusser]

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