
Glossary
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SFB
abbreviation of: Sonderforschungsbereich (Collaborative Research Center)
There are several Collaborative Research Centers in Germany. They consist of research groups that belong to universities/institutes within a city or a region. These groups study on the same topic to obtain new scienetific findings. SFBs are financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG) from funds of the Federal States of Germany.