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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
Gates Foundation announces stricter priorities
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the world's largest donors to international agricultural research for development. It has announced tighter priorities for its funding for Africa and South Asia, concentrating on key target countries and…
Laboratory Technology made in Germany’s Saarland fighting HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Initiative “Labor der Zukunft” (Laboratory for the Future) promotes future’s laboratory technology at MEDICA 2011, November 16-19, 2011, Düsseldorf, Germany, Hall 7a, Booth B09
The Aging Brain
Aging begins the moment we are born, as internal and external factors work together to rapidly shape our human experience. Over the last century, due to changes in the socio-cultural context in which humans live, the average life expectancy has…
A World of Ubiquitous Computing and Embedded Systems
At ESSPRITS 2011, a joint German-Canadian workshop, and the German Center for Research and Innovation’s first event in Canada, researchers from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the University of Waterloo (UW) discussed new directions and…
ANDI establishes 32 Centres of Excellence in Health Innovation in Africa
The African Network for Drugs and Diagnostics Innovation (ANDI) has concluded its annual stakeholders meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the recognition of 32 African institutions as ANDI Centres of Excellence in health innovation.
Agriculture in Kazakhstan: A success story
Kazakhstan extended its cereal acreage by five million hectares in the past ten years, doubled its added value in the grain sector and eradicated rural poverty as workers were becoming increasingly scarce. These insights emerge from a study of the…
ERC Advanced Grant to mathematician of University of Kaiserslautern
Gunter Malle, professor for mathematics at University of Kaiserslautern has obtained an ERC Advanced Grant, the highest research award of the European Union. The funding will comprise of up to 1.4 million EUR over the next five years.
Closing the gap - New data on the social dimension of higher education in Europe
Currently, three in every ten Europeans have attained higher education. According to the Education and Training Strategy of the European Union, it should be four in ten by 2020. Getting this additional person into and through higher education…
Meet German universities and research institutes at the PhD Workshop China on 26 and 27 November 2011 in Beijing!
Twenty-five German universities and research institutes will present their international PhD programmes and discuss employment opportunities with highly qualified candidates from China.
