In the age of globalization, economic growth and the welfare of nations decisively depend on basic innovations. Therefore, education and knowledge is an important advantage of competition in highly developed countries with high standards of salaries, but raw material shortage. In the twenty-first century, innovations will arise from problem-oriented research, crossing over traditional faculties and disciplines. Therefore, we need platforms of interdisciplinary dialogue to choose transdisciplinary problems (e.g., environment, energy, information, health, welfare) and to cluster new portfolios of technologies. The clusters of research during the excellence initiative at German universities are examples of converging sciences. The integration of natural and engineering sciences as well as medicine can only be realized if the research training programs (e.g., graduate schools) generate a considerable added value in terms of multidisciplinary experience, international networking, scientific and entrepreneurial know-how, and personality development. The Carl von Linde-Academy is presented as an example of an interdisciplinary center of research and teaching at the Technical University of Munich.
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机译：在全球化时代，经济增长和国家福利决定性地依赖于基础创新。因此，在工资水平高，但原材料短缺的高度发达国家中，教育和知识是竞争的重要优势。在二十一世纪，创新将来自以问题为导向的研究，跨越传统的学院和学科。因此，我们需要跨学科对话的平台来选择跨学科的问题（例如环境，能源，信息，健康，福利）并聚集新的技术组合。德国大学卓越计划期间的研究集群就是融合科学的例子。只有将研究培训计划（例如研究生院）在多学科经验，国际网络，科学和企业家知识以及个性发展方面产生可观的附加值，才能实现自然科学，工程科学以及医学的整合。卡尔·冯·林德学院（Carl von Linde-Academy）是慕尼黑工业大学跨学科研究与教学中心的一个示例。
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