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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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United in disagreement: The peace process is dead
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Government and economists defend Germany's roaring export machine
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E-learning's potential is hampered by misuse, critics say
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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...
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Electricity prices to rise for every fifth household
Deutsche's Ackermann pockets EUR 10 mln for 2009
Dutch populist Wilders 'unwelcome' in Eifel town
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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...
“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
Jürgen Habermas
No contemporary German philosopher attracts as much worldwide attention as Jürgen Habermas. A portrait on his 80th birthday
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
Research against Memory Loss
The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Disease is dedicated to fighting dementia in a way that is absolutely unique in Europe
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
What’s in a Name?
He is the expert on everything to do with German name research: Professor Jürgen Udolph on the secrets behind German surnames
Early Warning System Operational
German scientists have installed a tsunami early warning system in Indonesia. A situation report
Cooperation in the Natural Sciences
As of April 1, 2009, German and American scientists will be working together in the first transatlantic graduate research training group in the natural sciences
Dr. Europe
Critics say that the EU is too abstract. Not so, says Eckart Stratenschulte, director of the European Academy in Berlin. “That’s exactly what we have to get across to people.” And that’s his mission
“We Want to Address the Urgent Questions of Our Time”
The archaeologist Hermann Parzinger has headed the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since March 2008. He wants to strengthen science and improve networking among the institutions
Searching for Answers
The Transatlantic Academy aims to shed light on the big issues of the future. Scientists from Europe and the United Scientists are engaged in research there into contemporary issues
Sunny Partnership
Cooperation in the field of renewable energies: scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and MIT are to research the environmentally friendly energies of the future.
Transatlantic Excellence
Two of the world’s largest research institutions, the Research Center Jülich and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have agreed to work together in the field of fuel-cell technology
“We Are Observing the Antarctic Very Closely”
Professor Ulrich Bathmann, marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute, talks about research cooperation between German and South African scientists
Digging for Knowledge
From painstaking work to sensational finds: German Archaeological Institute scholars today work with spades and high technology
Voyage of Discovery in Space
Europeans have been waiting for this for a long time: Columbus, the European space lab, will be docking with the International Space Station this spring
Many Countries – One Research Laboratory
The EU has set up the European Research Council and the European Institute of Technology with the aim of creating a European Research Area by 2010
Solutions for Tomorrow’s World
New materials, environmentally friendly energy sources, treatments for hitherto incurable diseases, the causes of climate change – these are just a few of the many problems the Research Centre Jülich is trying to solve
Research and Ethics
In Germany the use of human embryonic stem cells is governed by comparatively strict legislation. Discussion is currently taking place on an amendment of the law. Background information and three opinions
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