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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 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…
Tackling the Global Challenge of Climate Change - German-African Cooperation in Education and Research
Opening Speech by state secretary Georg Schütte, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, at the Side Event “Strengthening Africa’s Competence in Combating Climate Change - African-German Cooperation in Education and Research” at the 21st UNFCCC…
First “European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation” supported entirely by universities is founded on the Upper Rhine
On 9 December 2015, the Universities of Basel, Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, Strasbourg and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology signed the founding documents for the trinational European Campus. The universities have thus broken new ground in…
Event Review: FOCUS - Smart Grid 2015
On November 12, 2015, the German Center for Research and Innovation in New York co-hosted a discussion on smart grid technologies with German partner organizations and experts in the field. Changing the current power infrastructure to a cleaner,…
TU Berlin Summer University: A space for international exchange
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