Coordination Funds

INTEREST SPP的愿景是通过在专门的协调倡议中遵循整体“集成”方法建立一个定义良好的太赫兹社区。“集成太赫兹系统”的主题将使太赫兹科学和技术领域的未知功能和应用成为可能。要实现这一目标，有效的科学协调是必不可少的。通过这一协调提案，我们不仅汇集了工程、物理和自然科学领域的专家来发明突破性的太赫兹技术，而且我们进一步创造了协同效应，并使活动交叉施肥，以最大限度地提高研究项目在国家和国际层面的影响。通过建立合作平台和数据库，在联盟内部和SPP外部共享设备、项目结果和新颖的太赫兹组件，我们将在SPP内部组建相互科学小组，进一步研究探索性系统概念，并展示超越以往单个合作伙伴提出的创新想法。我们将与半导体代工厂谈判折扣，以腾出额外的财政资源来资助这些额外的活动。我们创建了一个国际科学顾问委员会来指导我们的活动，并通过建立德国-英国伙伴关系、联合科学出版物、组织研讨会、主持网站和通过社交媒体渠道进行交流等方式与其他太赫兹科学界接触。通过推广女性候选人和家庭友好政策来解决早期职业和性别问题。有了这一切，我们的目标是促进INTEREST SPP突破目前仍然孤立现有科学界的现有障碍。

The vision of the INTEREST SPP is to establish a well-defined terahertz community by following a holistic ‘integration’ approach in a dedicated coordinated initiative. The theme ‘Integrated Terahertz Systems’ will enable unseen functionalities and applications in the field of terahertz science and technologies. To accomplish this aim, effective scientific coordination is essential. With this coordination proposal, we not only bring together experts in engineering, physical and natural sciences to invent ground-breaking THz technologies, but we further create synergies and cross-fertilize the activities to maximize the impact of the research programs on the national and international level. This is done by establishing a collaboration platform and database to share equipment, project results, and novel THz components within the consortium and outside the SPP. We will form mutual science groups within the SPP to further research exploratory system concepts and demonstrate innovative ideas beyond what used to be proposed by the individual partners. We will negotiate discounts with semiconductor foundries to free-up additional financial resources to fund such additional activities. We create an international scientific advisory board to guide our activities and we reach out to other THz science communities, e.g. by establishing a Germany-UK partnership, joint scientific publications, organizing workshops, moderating a website, and communication through social media channels. Early career and gender issues are addressed by promoting female candidates and family-friendly policies. With all this, we aim to foster the INTEREST SPP for breaking through the existing barriers that are still isolating existing scientific communities today.