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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
European XFEL starts operation of second X-ray light source
The second X-ray light source has successfully been taken into operation at European XFEL, the world’s largest X-ray laser located in the Hamburg metropolitan region. The successful start of operation of the new SASE 3 source will enable the facility…
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Ericsson to collaborate on 5G applications for production
The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT and Ericsson announce their collaboration in exploring use cases for 5G in the manufacturing Environment. The partner organizations will develop application scenarios for production and -test…
IT-TRANS 2018: Communications technologies
Latest trends in communications technologies for public transport will be featured at IT-TRANS 2018
Canada improves collaboration with Germany in Research, Development and Innovation
On January 28 Iain Stewart, President of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), signed Memoranda of Understanding with DLR (German Aerospace Center) Projekt-Träger and Bavarian Research Alliance (BayFOR) to set in place the processes for…
New pathways to sustainable urban development – the EU and China want to learn from one another
The TRANS-URBAN-EU-CHINA project, funded by the European Union, was launched at a two-day conference in Dresden at the end of January. Under the leadership of the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, partners from Europe…
German-Israeli Partnership Accelerator HIPA presents new ideas and solutions in Cybersecurity
The first round of the Hessian-Israeli Partnership Accelerator (HIPA) ended on January 9 with the presentation of new cybersecurity developments. HIPA is the first and only German-Israeli accelerator focusing on cybersecurity. At the final event, the…
New Master programm in forestry between Europe and Vietnam
The Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) will coordinate the EU-Project "BioEcoN" with its European and Vietnamese Partners. Together they will design a new multidisciplinary Master of Science (MSc) curriculum on Sustainable…
New Max Planck Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the Department of Physics of Harvard University will collaborate in the new Max Planck Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics.
DLR and GIZ sign cooperation agreement: new basis for working together on international projects
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH have signed on December 18th an agreement to enhance cooperation between the two organisations, which will continue and consolidate their…
