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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
Pre-Announcement CONCERT-Japan Pilot Joint Call on Research and Innovation
The CONCERT-Japan Pilot Joint Call on Research and Innovation is planned to be launched in September 2012.
Does a bee send you an invoice?
Ten African nations have pledged, ahead of Rio+20, to include the economic value of natural resources in their national accounts.
Botanic gardens signed historic agreement to restore the world’s damaged ecosystems
Responding to a United Nations target to restore at least 15 percent of the world’s damaged ecosystems by 2020, the following institutions have agreed to work together to form a new Ecological Restoration Alliance:
New Collaborative Research Centre in Molecular Biology
How do cells respond to damage and how are disturbances in cellular equilibrium avoided or compensated? These issues are at the heart of a new Collaborative Research Centre funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and ready to be launched at…
Max Planck Society establishes new Institute in Luxemburg
Partnership with the Grand Duchy gives a major boost to the basic research carried out by the Max Planck Society in the field of law. Junior scientists are also set to benefit.
University of Konstanz is awarded contract for COFUND proposal
EU funding for the "Zukunftskolleg Incoming Fellowship Programme" (ZIF-Marie-Curie) totalling 6.24 million €
Plasma technology offers great prospects for young academics
According to the current Russian energy concept up to 40 percent of Russian energy consumption – more than one quarter of this figure concerns the industrial consumption – could be saved. In order to fully exploit this potential new technologies must…
International Laser Technology Congress AKL: Short pulse lasers make inroads into everyday indust
Experts from the field of industrial laser technology gathered in Aachen from May 9 to 11, 2012 for the International Laser Technology Congress AKL’12. The outstanding technical innovations included the processing of new materials, ultrashort pulse…
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launches prestigious engineering prize in the British Embassy and meets apprentices at Siemens factory
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined Professor Hüttl (President, acatech) and Mr Peyton-Jones (HR Director, Siemens Plc and North West Europe) at the British Embassy in Berlin on 24 May for the Germany launch of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for…
