An external evaluation committee has urged Germany's two main basic research organizations to stop living on past glories and to embark on reforms that will make them more responsive to modern research needs. Federal and regional governments, says the committee, should help by relaxing restrictive employment laws. The committee was set up in 1997 by the Bund-Laender Kommission (BLK) — the body that coordinates regional and federal research policies — to assess the procedures of the Max Planck Society (MPS) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's university funding agency.
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