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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
Fashion Fusion Challenge
The Fashion Fusion Challenge is an ideas competition sponsored by Deutsche Telekom. The goal is to encourage creative minds from fashion and technology to collaborate.
Indian Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and GIZ ink an agreement to build efficient, environment-friendly, and climate-friendly industrial development
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, signed an Implementation Agreement for a new Indo-German Development Cooperation project…
German Science Day 2016 in Cairo
On Saturday the 28th of May, the Campus of the German Science Centre (DWZ) in Cairo opened its doors to outstanding PhD and Post-Doctoral candidates to meet representatives of German universities. The German Science Day, this year in its fifth…
Urban Energy Systems – Challenges and Solutions for Zero-Carbon Cities
On Thursday, June 2, leading experts will convene at the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI) in New York for a discussion on the most pressing issues in the urban energy sector.
Reflection Forum "The Western Balkans in the European Union: new perspectives on integration?"
"Cooperation instead of confrontation has been the advice given to the Western Balkan countries by the European Union for the past decades. Thanks to EU's support, the region has been able to move ahead. Yet today, EU integration has lost its…
Becoming Director at the Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC)
The Indo-German Science and Technology Centre (IGSTC) is an autonomous registered society established in 2010 under an inter-governmental MoU between the Government of India and the Government of Germany.
Enhancement of Funding Opportunities for Joint Sino-German Research Projects
The Sino-German Centre for Research Promotion (SGC) is a joint venture between the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). It fosters scientific cooperation…
eLearning Africa: Sharing infrastructure must be top priority
The African Union’s Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, HE Mrs Elham Mahmood Ahmed Ibrahim, will tell participants at this year’s eLearning Africa conference that sharing infrastructure must be a top priority for African governments.
German institutions of higher education spent more than Euro 48 billion in 2014
In 2014, German public and private institutions of higher education spent Euro 48.2 billion on teaching, research and health treatment. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was 4.1% more than in 2013 (Euro 46.3 billion).
