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25 March 2008: Germany Promotes Small Science in a Very Big Way. Read more

14 March 2008: The world's largest fusion experiment of the stellarator type taking shape. Read more

7 March 2008: Dialysis patients in Germany have gotten sick using a different brand of the blood thinner heparin than was linked to 19 American deaths, sparking U.S. concern that the problem could run deeper than originally believed. Read more

28 February 2008: The Heinrich Böll Foundation supports those studying and graduating who have a positive attitude towards the goals of the Green project, share the fundamental ideals of the Foundation and who take an active sociopolitical role. The foundation also provides support for art and culture, science and research, and developmental cooperation. Read more

26 February 2008: Germany may drop plans to double the amount of biofuels in gasoline after warnings that more than a million cars aren't biofuel compatible. Read more

15 February 2008: Germany considers changing stem cell laws. Read more

14 February 2008: A new approach to combating poverty is being studied in a research project led by the University of Cologne. Following the success of their international project 'Strengthening micro health insurance units for the poor in India', the university is now working on a similar initiative for Africa. Read more

13 February 2008: Are children under 5 years old who live near nuclear power plants in Germany more likely to develop leukaemia or not?

11 February 2008: The EU-funded TEAM research project will be holding a workshop entitled 'Agile Knowledge Sharing for Distributed Software Teams' as part of the Software Engineering 08 conference on 19 February in Munich, Germany. Read more

7 February 2008: Astrophysicists in Germany say they can add evidence to bolster theories that water, one of the precious ingredients for life, exists on the Saturnian moon Enceladus. Read more

4 February 2007: Alfried Krupp Senior Fellowships and Alfried Krupp Junior Fellowships enable the fellows to concentrate on a major scientific or scholarly project, free of extensive teaching duties, at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald, in Germany. Read more

4 February 2007: SUCCESS (Searching Unprecedented Cooperations on Energy and Climate to Ensure Sustainability) and GAST (Green and Safe Road Transportation) are the names of two EU-funded pilot projects that are intended to pave the way for the European Institute of Technology (EIT). Both newly-launched initiatives are coordinated by the Institute of Technology Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany. Read more

1 February 2008: German Pedagogic Exchange Service are pleased to advise that they are offering 15 scholarships for 2008/ for *New Zealand Teaching Assistants* who may spend 9 months in different German schools between 1 September 2008 and 31 May . Read more

31 January 2008: Even as the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power rages on in many countries, about 30 new nuclear power plants are being built around the world, including in Europe. Some countries such as Germany or Sweden are committed to a nuclear phase-out, but are their commitments definite? Read more

30 January 2008: Members of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE are traveling to Tokyo with bulky luggage these days. Their destination is Nanotech 2008, the world’s largest trade fair for nanotechnology. Their solar module, which they will be presenting in the BMBF marketing campaign ‘Nanotech Germany’, is the size and shape of a door: two meters high and sixty centimeters wide. Read more

29 January 2008: The PathogenCombat project is organising a workshop on 'New trends in emerging pathogens', to take place on 10 March in Hohenheim, Germany. Read more

25 January 2008: Ten new research projects have been launched in Germany in an attempt to counter an alarming trend in product piracy. Read more

23 January 2008: The German Government is to invest €29 million in research projects dedicated to the quick and safe detection of toxic and explosive substances. Read more

14 December 2007: In Germany, the first international telescope station of the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope has started operation. The station, dubbed IS-DE1, which will be run by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, is situated in Effelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is the second of many to be installed. Read more

12 December 2007: Bernd Voelcker desperately needs programmers and sales managers for his software firm in Berlin, but he can't hire promising Indian or Chinese candidates because Germany's labour market has shut them out. Read more 11 December 2007: German-American collaboration in the field of radio astronomy is set to get a boost thanks to a new agreement between Germany's Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and the US' National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Read more

6 December 2007: The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) at the opening of the Offshore Wind Conference in Berlin, Germany, on Tuesday (4 December) called for a considerably increased use of offshore wind energy. Read more

5 December 2007: The EU-funded MolDiag-Paca project (Novel molecular diagnostic tools for the prevention and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer) is investigating new methods for early detection of pancreatic cancer with the help of molecular imaging. Read more

4 December 2007: With NASA’s announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 6 December, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, from Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, from France, are set to carry ESA’s Columbus laboratory to the International Space Station. Read more.

4 December 2007: Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Germany have warned that the pesticides used in increasing cultivation of energy crops will have a negative impact on rivers. Read more

30 November 2007: The German government on Thursday launched a secure Internet search engine to allow children to surf the Web without any risk of them finding violent or sexual content. Read more

28 November 2007: A ten-week expedition to the Lazarev Sea and the eastern part of the Weddell Sea opens this year's Antarctic research season of the German research vessel Polarstern. Read more

27 November 2007: The EU-funded CARBOOCEAN project will be holding its 3rd annual conference in Bremen, Germany, from 4 to 7 December. Read more

27 November 2007: A pilot training course on occupational radiation protection: specificities of waste management and decommissioning will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on 10 to 14 December. Read more

23 November 2007: A public panel discussion on the ethical aspects of RNA interference (RNAi) based gene therapy will be held in Berlin, Germany, on 3 December. Read more

22 November 2007: Researchers working on the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS) have successfully tested a new method that is intended to ensure the reliable communication of data from detectors on the seafloor to the warning centre. Read more

21 November 2007: A laboratory in Germany said Monday it will make genome sequencing available to private individuals, the first European company to do so. Read more

21 November 2007: Using a rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive diagnostic tool called MassTag PCR, scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health's Center for Infection and Immunity implicated a new human rhinovirus as the cause of severe pediatric respiratory tract infections in Europe. Read more

21 November 2007: A new international research alliance will tackle the question of life on other planets and study conditions and factors that have an impact on its development. Read more

21 November 2007: The German Government is to create 200 additional positions for women university professors over the next five years with €75 million. The German states will also provide funding for the programme. Read more

19 November 2007: An international trade fair and innovation conference on renewable energy and energy-efficient building and renovation will take place from 7 to 9 March in Stuttgart, Germany. Read more

15 November 2007: Every year, in Germany alone, around 7 000 people must wait for a new cornea to preserve their eyesight, but unfortunately donors are in short supply. Read more

15 November 2007: Germany has launched a new education research programme with the goal of improving the quality of the country's education system. Read more

9 November 2007: Representatives of 15 countries signed on 7 November in Darmstadt, Germany , a joint communiqué giving the go-ahead for the construction of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). With the help of the €1.2 billion facility, researchers will try to answer some fundamental questions of physics. Read more 7 November 2007: Germany and India have agreed to strengthen scientific collaboration and networking, with a focus on tackling climate change and developing clean energy technologies. Read more 24 October 2007: Applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are varied and so is its future. Incorporated into a modern, mobile, multimodal high-speed communication system, ICT will pave the way to better safety, improved health, information and entertainment accessible anywhere at any time, according to Wolfgang Wahlster, director of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Read more

23 October 2007: The societal dimension of information and communication technology (ICT) was the centre of attention at the Information Technology for European Advancement (ITEA 2) Symposium 2007. Read more

23 October 2007: A virtual hospital and a home for 'assisted living' using an information and communication technology (ICT) system are just two of five pilot sites planned in the framework of a project entitled NUADU. Read more

17 October 2007: Germany and Russia signed an agreement on closer cooperation in research and education on 15 October. Read more

15 October 2007: Call for Application to Marie Curie training course organised by Environmental Policy Research Centre of the Freie Universität Berlin. Successful applicants will receive a contribution for their travel costs, including accommodation. Read more 11 October 2007: The 2007 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Gerhard Ertl for work that has led to cleaner car exhausts and may yet explain the depletion of the ozone layer. Read more 11 October 2007: The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and partners from German industry have announced a €900 million investment in molecular imaging research. The so-called 'Innovation Alliance Molecular Imaging' will provide funding for joint projects involving the research and industry sectors. The aim is to develop new contrast media, devices and software. Read more 11 October 2007: The German Free Democrat MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis has been awarded the Parliament Magazine MEP of the year award for research and technology. Read more

11 October 2007: Researchers from Germany , Portugal and the UK have developed an interactive role play game which helps children to cope with bullying at schools. Read more

8 October 2007: The Universities of Kaiserslautern and Malta have signed an agreement which will boost collaboration in the field of software engineering for maritime applications. Read more

3 October 2007: Having introduced a research premium for universities and public research institutions cooperating with small and medium enterprises (SMEs) earlier this year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is now offering a similar scheme for other, non-profit research facilities Read more 20 September 2007: Herschel, Europe’s infrared space observatory is being presented to the media today in a joint press event by ESA and Astrium in Friedrichshafen, Germany . Two of the satellite’s most fundamental modules, its ‘heart’ and ‘brain’, have now been mated. Read more

20 September 2007: Education systems are continuing to expand at great speed. This is one of the key findings of the study 'Education at a Glance 2007', presented on 18 September in Berlin by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Read more

19 September 2007: A conference on functional genomics with embryonic stems cells will be held in Heidelberg, Germany , from 24 to 26 November. Read more

17 September: A "GPS shield" that works in real time could save lives by quickly warning of potential tsunamis. Read more

14 September 2007: The German government said it would allocate 5 million euros ($6.9 million) over three years for non-embryonic stem cell research. Read more

12 September 2007: The highest-resolution images ever seen in (S)TEM electron microscopy have been recorded using a new instrument developed jointly by U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC) [profile] and CEOS GmbH, in Heidelberg, Germany. Read more 6 September 2007 : Hamburg in Germany is to host a new centre for pharmaceutical research, intended to fill the current gap between basic research and commercial development. Funding will come initially from the Government, city funds and pharmaceutical company Evotec. Read more

4 September 2007: Hamburg in Germany is to host a new centre for pharmaceutical research, intended to fill the current gap between basic research and commercial development. Funding will come initially from the Government, city funds and pharmaceutical company Evotec. Read more

10 August 2007: The German institute for ecological economy research (IOEW) and the Akademie Frankenwarte are organising a summer academy entitled 'From government to governance: the case of integrated product policy (IPP)' from 7 to 11 September in Würzburg, Germany . Read more

10 August 2007: The German and Polish governments are to fund joint neurological and neuropsychiatric research with around three million euro over the next three years. Read more

10 August 2007: New research into SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) suggests that the virus is more resilient than first thought, and can be spread through contact with contaminated objects. Read more

9 August 2007: Two of Germany 's top research bodies have joined forces to create the 'Jülich Aachen Research Alliance' (JARA), in what a government minister has described as a 'forward-looking' move. Read more

7 August 2007: An international partnering event, organised by four German Innovation Relay Centres (IRCs), will take place during the Biotechnical international fair in Hannover on 10 and 11 October 2007. Read more

3 August 2007: German researchers are helping cheese makers from the northern Spanish region of Asturias apply the latest in logistics to their small scale operations. Read more

31 July 2007: German scientists have developed a new software tool capable of identifying pictures of chemical structures in patent files. The aim is to make these pictures computer-readable and retrievable. Read more

31 July 2007: Germany has launched an initiative to boost pharmaceutical research and development in the country. The new 'Pharma-Initiative' has a budget of €800 million and will run until 2011. Read more

31 July 2007: The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has issued a call for research projects that deal with nanotechnology applications in the construction industry - "Nanotechnology in construction engineering - NanoTecture." (in German). Read more

25 July 2007: Mercedes-Benz is working on a new kind of four-cylinder engine that combines features of petrol and diesel motors to generate 238 horsepower while using less than 6 liters of standard petrol per 100 km. Read more

23 July 2007: The European Commission has authorised Germany to give EUR 120 million to researchers to work on the Internet search engine technologies project THESEUS. Read more

20 July 2007: The ninth international EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) PhD student symposium will be held on 25-27 October 2007 in Heidelberg, Germany . Read more

20 July 2007: An international congress on photosynthesis will take place in Jülich, Germany from 29 to 31 July. Read more

20 July 2007: Rolf Disch has harnessed the sun in his city of Freiburg, starting with his own house. It looks like an upside-down Apollo spacecraft and serves as a testing ground for ideas dreamed up by the 63-year-old solar architect. Read more

19 July 2007: A conference on 'turning knowledge into practice: getting more out of public investment in innovation' will take place on 23 and 24 October in Berlin, Germany . Read more

19 July 2007: An international trade fair and conference on renewable energies and energy-efficient building and renovation will take place from 27 to 30 September in Augsburg, Germany . Read more

13 July 2007: The proportion of women professors at German universities has jumped from 8% in 1995 to 15% in 2006. Read more

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