More than 150 guests from politics, science, and society attended the ceremony in the Löwengebäude of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Saxony-Anhalt’s State Secretary for Science, Thomas Wünsch, and the prime ministers of Thuringia and Saxony, Mario Voigt and Michael Kretschmer, recapitulated the successes of iDiv’s 13-year history in their speeches. In particular, they praised iDiv’s role in establishing integrative biodiversity research as a pioneering field of resear...
