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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
"Exceptional and Exemplary" in Internationalizing the Doctorate Training in Engineering Sciences
Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics) successful in competition by the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), the 4ING faculty conferences, the TU9 consortium (union of the leading technical…
Imec India kicks off partnership with Wipro to bring nanoelectronics solutions to emerging markets
Imec today announced the establishment of imec India in Bangalore, Karnataka, making a first step towards the Indian market with the signing of an R&D partnership agreement with Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and…
Brave new World: Insight into Munich’s laser physics
Carbon as a razor-thin transparent foil is one of the innovations presented by the "Munich-Centre of Advanced Photonics" (MAP) at the "LASER – World of Photonics" on May 23-26 in Munich. High-power lasers knock out pulsed ion beams out of these…
Syngenta to invest in new U.S. genetics research facility
Syngenta announced today that it plans to construct a new state-of-the-art biotechnology research facility adjacent to its existing research campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The $71 million investment, which is scheduled to begin in…
Research aircraft Polar 5 returned from spring measurements in the high Arctic
The research aircraft Polar 5 of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association returned to Bremerhaven from a six-week expedition in the high Arctic on May 6. Joint flights with aircraft of the European and…
Plattner Institute invites scientists to engage in top level research laboratory
The Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) has called computer scientists from around the world to compete with proposals for the use of its top level research laboratory. The “HPI Future SOC Lab” which was established in 2010 is operated in cooperation with…
New on STN: Patent full-text database PCTFULL now with unique numeric property search
Numerical search in the full-texts of WIPO patent applications now enables users to search for chemical and physical properties / Reloaded database offers much more content like names, addresses and full-text in various languages
Call for Proposals: Creation of Indian-European Social Sciences Networks
The German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), the British Economics and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC), the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the…
Dr. Thomas Udem has been named as 2010 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
Being nominated by the Topical Group “Precision Measurement & Fundamental Constants” of the American Physical Society, Dr. Thomas Udem, a scientist in the Laser Spectroscopy Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching (near…
