News
Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
Sustainable Use of Plastics: German-Colombian Research Platform SPIRIT Opened
Besides smart phones, smart cities and smart data, plastics are supposed to become smart, too: in cooperation with the Colombian ICIPC Institute the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology established the SPIRIT joint research…
ENRICH in the USA: Business Acceleration Program
ENRICH in the USA is launching its first Business Acceleration Program as vehicle for setting up promising EU ventures in the US West Coast ecosystem.
New strategic partnership: U4 and Tartu prepare for European University application
The U4 universities (Ghent University, the University Göttingen, the University of Groningen and Uppsala University) have joined forces with the University of Tartu to prepare an application for the European University project announced by the EU to…
BMBF funds joint German-South African project TRACES
From 1 July 2018, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) finances the new joint project TRACES (Tracing Human and Climate Impacts in South Africa). The German-South African Project is coordinated at MARUM – Center for Marine…
Leuphana University Luneburg signs Formal Agreement with University of Glasgow
An agreement to establish a formal collaboration between the University of Glasgow and Leuphana University was signed in Luneburg, Germany on Saturday 16 June 2018 by Professor Anton Muscatelli, the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of…
FIT4FOOD2030 Survey: food system of the future
What are the research and innovation trends, the showcases and the potential breakthroughs that have or will influence the European food system?
Worldwide study on research stays abroad
Why are doctoral students (Dr or PhD) and postdocs interested in conducting research abroad? What information needs do they have when going abroad?
Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films becomes involved in Taiwan
On June 1st, 2018 a Memorandum of Understanding was signed that sealed the partnership between Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST and Feng Chia University, that had already existed since 2014.
German Aerospace Center and French research institute IFSTTAR announce cooperation
On 1 June 2018 at the French Embassy in Berlin, the German Aerospace Center DLR and the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks IFSTTAR signed a cooperation agreement for the joint development of solutions…
