English to German Other Government / Politics

Social-problems-driven research is thus also a duty for the research university. This research, which aims at easing the many problems of modern society and which is mainly publicly or charity funded, is an essential part of the social contract of the university. It leads usually to less glory, but fortunately there is enough idealism among academics to do without this glory. It is **pork-sensitive** and, given that resources are always limited, very ideology and policy dependent