[Educational initiative of the German Society of Urology for innovative research : Workshops 2009].

The tasks of the Working Group on Urological Research (AuF) of the German Society of Urology (DGU) are to support communication and initiation of joint ventures in German urology and to cooperate with associated subjects and neighboring countries. The annual "wet lab workshops" needs a space between annual and "wet lab workshops" on the topics of tumor cell culture, gene silencing, proteomics, and tissue engineering and the use instead of annual topic-related symposium"urological research," organized and carried out by the AuF as of 2009, serve to achieve a close change to closer integration of praxis and theory. This should contribute to a lasting quality improvement of the scientific work in urology. Accomplishing these objectives seems urgently necessary to preserve the interests of urologists, because more than ever research has become indispensable in an increasingly difficult environment of health care policy.