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Here you will find current news on international activities of German actors in the fields of education, research and 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.
Status Conference 2015 on German-Vietnamese cooperation in water and sustainability research
Within the frame of the 40-year anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Germany and Vietnam, the VD-Office for Water and Sustainability Research (under BMBF and MOST) organized a status conference on “Water and Sustainability Research under…
German-Vietnamese research project on Integrated Wastewater Concepts in Industrial Zones AKIZ is coming to an end
After more than six years of research the AKIZ research project (Integrated Wastewater Concepts in Industrial Zones) is coming to an end. One of the core outputs, the "BPG - Best Practice Guide on Development of Integrated Wastewater Concepts for…
Refugee Scientists and Academics: DFG to Facilitate Participation in Research Projects
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) plans to help scientists and academics who have fled their home countries to participate in DFG-funded research projects and thus contribute to the integration of refugees in…
Event Review: Opportunities and Risks in E-Health
At present, healthcare systems worldwide are changing immensely due to digitalization and the introduction of new intelligent healthcare technologies. The way we are diagnosing, tracking, and treating diseases as well as assessing health conditions…
