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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
New web-portal for S&T cooperation between the EU and Ukraine online
In March 2010 the S&T Gate UKR.EU has been launched which aims to identify and analyze the S&T potential of EU-Ukraine Cooperation.
The Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) attracts Nanotechnology on an industrial scale
Researchers seeking business partners and high-tech companies looking for capital could all benefit from the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies' global investment program.
The primary goal of RUSNANO is to create and develop a Russian…
Dr. Thomas Udem has been elected as OSA Fellow 2010
The Board of Directors of the Optical Society of America (OSA) has elevated Dr. Thomas Udem, a scientist at the Laser Spectroscopy Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching (near Munich), to the rank of an "OSA fellow 2010".
E.ON Ruhrgas scholarships: Norwegian-German exchange more popular than ever
More and more Norwegians have set their sights on studying or conducting research at German universities, and Norway is an increasingly popular destination for German students and researchers. The E.ON Ruhrgas scholarship programme provides an…
DAAD to have New Secretary-General
Dr. Dorothea Rüland, currently director of the Center for International Cooperation at Freie Universität Berlin, will assume her post as the new Secretary-General of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Bonn on 1 October 2010. DAAD Vice…
Civilizing the World Order? The Scope and Potential of Transnational Norm-building Networks
Issue 1/2010 of the GIGA Focus International Edition has now been published ("Civilizing the World Order? The Scope and Potential of Transnational Norm-building Networks", Cord Jakobeit, Robert Kappel and Ulrich Mückenberger)
New centre will put Danish plant science among world's elite
LIFE- Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen is investing in a new research facility that will further enhance its reputation and attract the brightest minds. Already today, plant scientists at LIFE are finding plant biotech solutions…
Chinese-German Centre for collaboration in land use research
A scientific platform for research collaboration brings together researchers from the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR) of the Chinese Academy of…
td-net: Swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research 2010
Unter der Schirmherrschaft der Stiftung Mercator Schweiz schreiben die Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz den «swiss- academies award for transdisciplinary research» aus. Der Preis zeichnet ein besonders gelungenes Projekt im Bereich der…
