A few months ago, the ACCESS project was given the great opportunity by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to apply for a second funding phase as one of seven successful exceed networks. During the ACCESS Research Conference and Summer School in Hammamet at the beginning of October, the time had finally come. ACCESS Director Prof. Dr. Utz Dornberger was able to announce the exciting news that the application for the second project phase of ACCESS had been approved by the DAAD.
This second phase will now follow on seamlessly in the years 2025 – 2029 and contains a financial scope of almost five million euros. For the future work of ACCESS, new target groups and research directions will be taken into account. Among other things, the target group of students is to become more central to the activities, whereas in the first project phase the focus was on lecturers. The topic of sustainability will also be given special consideration in the network’s activities.
With the “ACCESS 2.0” project, the entire team is pursuing the goal of further developing the network, which has grown over the past four and a half years, taking current social developments into account and leading it successfully into the future together.