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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
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…
Chinese Award for Eduard Arzt
The Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) honors INM Scientific Director Eduard Arzt with the Lee Hsun Lecture Award.
Science for Sustainable Societal Transformations: Towards Effective Governance
The German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI), in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), will host a discussion on “Science for Sustainable Societal Transformations: Towards Effective Governance” on Monday,…
Federal Development Minister Niebel to be patron of worldwide online climate conference 2011
Germany’s Federal Development Minister Dirk Niebel patron of CLIMATE 2011 / 2011 conference to focus on “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management” / Global call for papers.
