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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".

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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…

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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…

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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)

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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…

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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…

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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…

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2010 Bologna Ministerial Anniversary Conference in Budapest and Vienna

The Bologna Declaration has reformed the structures of European higher education systems over the past ten years in a revolutionary way and has played a remarkable role in strengthening the competitiveness and attractiveness of European higher…

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CeBIT - Innovation is not the product of chance

Germany has few natural resources, which means that it depends on ideas and innovation. Every year the government and industry invest billions of euros in research for this reason. At CeBIT, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research demonstrates…

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