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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
Platform Launch for International Talent Development Program
Global Talent Mentoring, the worldwide, one-of-a-kind online mentoring program, has opened its virtual doors to 238 participants from 30 countries on its custom-designed online platform. This occasion marks the launch of the pilot round of mentoring…
Newly founded African-German Leadership Academy fosters mutual learning on sustainability
Shaping sustainable economic and social change together - that is the aim of the newly established BMZ African-German Leadership Academy. The training and dialogue programme for young professionals from Germany’s African reform partner countries…
German Research Ministry is funding a new UNESCO programme for sub-Saharan Africa
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding a new programme of UNESCO’s World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) entitled Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators for which young scientists from sub-Saharan Africa can…
Framework Agreement Between Leibniz Institute for Catalysis and Islamic World Organization for Education, Science and Culture
The Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) in Rostock intensifies its cooperation with research institutes in emerging countries. To this end, a framework agreement was concluded on Friday, April 16, with the Islamic World Organization for…
Sino-EU PerMed and IC2PerMed: First Joint Newsletter
The projects Sino-EU PerMed and IC2PerMed funded by the European Commission have published a joint newsletter on European and Chinese communication and cooperation in research and implementation on personalised medicine.
Joint statement by Swedish and German Rectors' Conferences on Ahmadreza Djalali's solitary confinement in Iran
Human rights experts at the United Nations are on high alert and have voiced their concerns at the worsening, life-threatening situation of the Swedish-Iranian scientist Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been arbitrarily arrested and detained in Iran.
Safer international cooperation in science and technology: Annotated Collection of Guidelines and a Meta-Checklist supporting the safe and successful international cooperation
An annotated compilation of guidelines and checklists as a repository as well as a targeted compilation of relevant recommendations for action in the form of meta-guidelines shall help the European research and innovation landscape to set up targeted…
BMBF contributes to conference on “Addressing global challenges together: the Role of Science Diplomacy”
“Science diplomacy is important in times of global challenges, and the pandemic has highlighted this again. Given these challenges, it is now important to take the partnership between diplomacy and science to a new level” highlighted the German…
BIWE International launches seminar series "Implementation of Dual Vocational Education and Training (IDVET)"
The seminar series addresses the needs of numerous countries to incorporate elements of dual vocational education and training into their domestic vocational education and training systems in order to increase competitiveness for companies and reduce…
