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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and innovation.
German Youth Institute launches new international social media site
The German Youth Institute will be publishing analyses and interviews in English on the blogging platform tumblr. The social science research institute will be posting a collection of the best articles from its research magazine, DJI Impulse. At…
Pre-Announcement: T-AP Digging into Data Challenge
In March 2016, the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) will launch its first international funding opportunity: the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge. It will support research projects that explore and apply new “big data” sources and methodologies to…
First Call launched by China for the EU-China Research and Innovation Co-Funding Mechanism
The Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has published its first call for proposals under the EU-China Co-Funding Mechanism (CFM) for Research and Innovation.
Recommendations on fostering participation of Danube region stakeholders in Horizon 2020 with a special focus on SMEs
On 23 April 2015, research and innovation stakeholder from across the region met in Kiev, Ukraine, to continue the Danube-INCO. NET’s policy dialogue on how to make progress towards the goals of the European Research Area (ERA) and the Innovation…
Hertie School of Governance Announces New Scholarship Opportunities
The Hertie School of Governance is now offering new scholarship and financial aid opportunities for, among others, stipend holders of the German Begabtenförderungswerke (Sponsorship Organisations) as well as US citizens and bachelor’s degree…
Berlin workshop bridges gap between theory and practice
DRIVER, a major European project aimed at establishing a common framework for innovative crisis management, held an event in Berlin aimed at improving the preparedness of civil protection leaders to handle major emergencies.
A new study on climate change, agriculture and forestry in the Pacific
The island states in the Pacific are some of the world’s most threatened by the effects of climate change. At the same time, these states have enormous land and forestry resources at their disposal for counteracting the consequences of climate…
IT-TRANS 2016: Programme focuses on consequences of digitisation on operations, customer service and mobility
The fifth edition of IT-TRANS, International Conference and Exhibition on IT Solutions for Public Transport, is going to be bigger and more international than ever before. At the moment, 189 exhibitors from 30 countries have already registered for…
German Federal Statistical Office: 134,500 Germans studied abroad in 2013
In 2013, the number of German students enrolled at institutions of higher education abroad was 134,500. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decline of 3.2% or 4,400 students compared with 2012.
