The turning point in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research was already clear before deciding on personnel issues. The BMBF in the usual form will no longer exist. The educational departments are moving to the Ministry of Family Affairs, but the new Ministry of Research, Technology and Space travel will receive several departments from the Ministry of Economic Affairs. A revolution is only on a small scale. The separation of science and education follows a pattern that is already practice in many federal states, as well as the general tendency to interrupt science more with innovation policy. The long -planned funding agency for application research can benefit from this, which is intended to boost the paralyzing science transfer. The previous plans suffered from the poor financial resources, but especially from the fact that the Ministry of Economic Affairs already has highly endowed funding programs. The science is even more under application pressure through the redesign. Why the CSU broadcasts the management of the new ministry of the research policy novice Dorothee Bär remains the secret of the party leader. The studied political scientist has experience as a federal representative for digitization in the Federal Chancellery, where she did not leave any too deep traces. Your demand for flight taxis remains remembered, which was at least not detrimental to her suitability for the management of a space ministry from a CSU perspective. The fact that space travel in the name is specially designed has to do primarily with the sky -rising ambitions of the Bavarian Prime Minister. However, Bavaria actually has something to show in this research field. The personnel decision seems to be all the more in need of explanation than the digitization policy is now put into the hands of a new Digital Ministry. With the physicist studied (a few semesters), qualified political scientists and incumbent Bavarian science – Minister of Science Markus Blume, a profiled man would have been available for the Ministry of Research. The decisive factor was probably proportional considerations and the extraordinary first vote of Bär in the Bundestag election. The call of science after research policy expertise was once again ignored. The ministry had already been occupied in the past two legislature with aspiring but inexperienced politicians, who both never found in office, and finally seemed badly. All that promises the future, from quantum technology to artificial intelligence to space travel, should become part of a high-tech agenda according to the Bavarian model. The non -university research institutions such as Max Planck and Fraunhofer can count on lush growth once you leave out the financing reservation. The universities traditionally disadvantaged by research policy must hope that university education will remain in the ministry. Otherwise, they would have to do with a complicated double structure that would strain the unity of research and teaching even more than is already the case. At least a foggy and party-based education politician was selected with the Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education, Science and Culture. She has to ensure that education in the multifunctional ministry does not go down for education, family, seniors, women and youth. In the Conference of Ministers of Education, Prien made a suggestion for measurable goals in the federal education policy, such as when it comes to the connection between education and origin. She wants to improve the equality of opportunities with the expansion of the starting chance program and its expansion to daycare centers. In addition, she will have to struggle with the known problems: the high number of school leavers without a degree and the computing and reading weakness of many students. To this end, she is faced with the piquant task of leading a ministry that was put by the CDU, some of which was suspected by the CDU because of its socio -political mission urge, for which the politician, who belongs to the left -wing party wing, may not be the worst choice.
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