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VW strengthens research links with Qatar

Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen AG announced Monday plans aimed strengthening its cooperation with Qatar in the...

Afghanistan: German diplomat new deputy head of UN mission

Martin Kobler is to be new deputy head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). The German...


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World

United in disagreement: The peace process is dead  

Business

Government and economists defend Germany's roaring export machine  

Culture & Lifestyle

E-learning's potential is hampered by misuse, critics say  



Events

Oh Lucky Eyes

Photographs by Rudi Weissenstein


Portrait

One School, Two Qualification Options

The German International School in Cape Town (DSK) is one of four German overseas schools in South Africa. Around 730...



Goethe-Institut News

Detective Work Instead of Homework: TV Thrillers for Children  

IFLA: The International Federation of Libraries  

Digital Copy Protection as Economic Handicap – An interview with Julius...  


The Local

Electricity prices to rise for every fifth household  

Deutsche's Ackermann pockets EUR 10 mln for 2009  

Dutch populist Wilders 'unwelcome' in Eifel town  


Linktips

New website for international students

A new site has been launched by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). www.study-in.de is intended to help guide...


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German Information Centre New Delhi

News, information and updates on Germany and its role and relations with South Asia, covering...


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German Information Centre Pretoria

The German Information Centre Pretoria aims to be the first contact point for up-to-date...


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German Information Center USA

The German Information Center USA (GIC) makes it easy for you to find information about...


Fashion designer - a dream job for many

Over 40 fashion schools in Germany are helping students make this dream come true, each approaching the goal from a different angle. A new generation of highly qualified teachers are showing the way forward.

Dream Job

Deutsche Welle’s new Master’s programme in international media studies offers up-and-coming journalists from developing and emerging countries a unique course of study in Germany

“Media of the Future / Future of the Media”

Matthias Horx is the most prominent trend and future researcher in the German-speaking countries. His Zukunftsinstitut based near Frankfurt am Main is a think-tank for research into the future

Studying for a Cleaner Future

Environment, climate, energy: German universities offer students numerous degree programmes with very promising futures

Jürgen Habermas

No contemporary German philosopher attracts as much worldwide attention as Jürgen Habermas. A portrait on his 80th birthday

Studying for Reconstruction

Germany is supporting the reconstruction of research and higher education in the conflict regions of Iraq and Afghanistan and promoting academic exchange with special scholarship programmes

Beacons of Excellence

Treading new paths together: the Research and Academic Relations Initiative promotes German university exchanges with four centres of excellence.

Connecting Worlds of Knowledge

In 2009 the Federal Foreign Office is supporting the global knowledge network with its Research and Academic Relations Initiative. This involves finding answers to global questions such as climate change and the fight against...

Global Interchange

Dr. Thomas Götz, Commissioner for Research and Academic Relations Policy, Federal Foreign Office, on the principles of the Research and Academic Relations Initiative

Houses of Innovation

Germany’s “Houses of Science and Innovation” combine competence and innovative strength in five cities on four continents

A New Passage to India

A new exchange programme for Indian visiting professors began in the 2009 summer semester under the motto “A New Passage to India”

Research against Memory Loss

The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Disease is dedicated to fighting dementia in a way that is absolutely unique in Europe

GSMW under New Leadership

Korean pianist Woohyung Yang wants to make the German School of Music Weimar more well-known, and she wants to offer more Masters courses

“To spread German Music in Korea”

An interview with Woohyung Yang, Director of the German School of Music Weimar, about her initial assessment, her aims with the school and her personal aspirations

Exchanging Knowledge for Three Decades

The University of Ulm has been offering a German-American exchange program for the past 30 years

A Network for the Future

The German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest invites US students to Germany

Heidelberg University in New York

The University of Heidelberg is now also represented by a liaison office in New York

A “One-Stop-Shop” of Excellence

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has had offices in Washington and New York for several years. Now it is planning a “German Science and Innovation House”. Interview with Marion Müller, Director of the DFG's two offices

Regional Expertise

Six “regional centres of excellence” chosen by the DAAD offer unusual courses of study.

One School, Two Qualification Options

The German International School in Cape Town (DSK) is one of four German overseas schools in South Africa. Around 730 students, including children from townships, attend the DSK


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