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| 2010-12-17 | Innovation award for modern hydroelectric power plant. Hydro-Energie Roth GmbH’s mobile hydroelectric power plant has received the Innovation Award of the Technology Region Karlsruhe worth 20,000 Euros. It was presented by the EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger (CDU) on... |
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| 2010-12-16 | German University in Cairo successfully completes foundation stage Joint declaration. “The foundation of the German University of Cairo (GUC) is a success story for which a new chapter is now being written after the completion its foundation stage. In the current development stage, the activities are focussing on research and the development of vocational education according to the Baden-Württemberg model,” said ... |
| 2010-12-10 | Sobek Research Prize for Prof. Lubetzki and Prof. Martini. Today (10 December) in Stuttgart, permanent secretary Klaus Tappeser presented the 100,000 euro Sobek Research Prize to Professor Catherine Lubetzki (Paris) and Professor Rudolf Martini (Würzburg). The Junior Research Prize, worth 10,000 Euros... |
| 2010-12-02 | Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2010 goes to Baden-Württemberg Dr.-Ing. Peter Post and Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Markus Fischer of Esslingen-based Festo AG & Co. KG, as well as Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Andrzej Grzesiak from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA in Stuttgart, were yesterday evening (1st December 2010) awarded the Deutscher Zukunftspreis (for achievement in technology and.... |
| 2010-11-26 | 100 years of aeronautical engineering at the University of Stuttgart. "Stuttgart, the heart of aeronautical and aerospace research in Germany, is taking up an outstanding leading position on a national and international scale. As part of a global network, the scientists collaborate with renowned partners and develop solutions to high-technology problems, which are crucial for our long-term viability", said Ministerial Director Klaus.. |
| 2010-11-22 | Minister-President Mappus ends his trip in Southeast Asia with a visit in Singapore.Talks focus on the expansion of cooperation between universities and development of business relations. Closing out his trip to Southeast Asia, Minister-President Mappus, signed a university cooperation agreement with the Raffles Education Corporation in Singapore today, Monday 22 November 2010. In future, three-year, practical courses of studies with the same basic content will be offered in both countries. The agreement’s objective is the reciprocal education of junior management in a different culture with the involvement of German companies .. |
| 2010-11-20 | Baden-Württemberg remains top EU region for innovations. Baden-Württemberg’s companies have the most innovative talents in the European Union. The Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg announced on Saturday in Stuttgart that the South West has, once again, made it to the top position in innovative ability. Of the 86 European regions investigated, no other region had a greater patent density or... |
| 2010-11-05 | "Research and Innovations in Europe 2014 - 2020" convention. At a convention on European research policy in Stuttgart today, Science Minister Frankenberg said that he intends to increase the state's income from EU research programmes to 1 billion Euros in the next ten years. According to the minister, the state acquired a total of 672 million Euros between 2002 and 2006 in the 6th Framework Programme ... |
| 2010-11-04 | Fifth Bodensee University Conference in Kreuzlingen. Science Minister Prof. Peter Frankenberg emphasised the importance of the International Bodensee University (IBH) today. At the Bodensee University Conference in Kreuzlingen, the minister stated "the state will continue to support the International Bodensee University. This is in the interests of the region, as well as the state." The state currently provides just under 290,000 Euros of funding ... |
| 2010-11-04 | 75 years of the Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management at the University of Stuttgart Science Minister Frankenberg described the Institute for Industrial Manufacturing and Management (IFF) at the University of Stuttgart as a "hotbed of innovation for new production and manufacturing techniques." "IFF is already making a decisive contribution towards making our production facilities fit.. |
| 2010-11-03 | European Research Council provides funding for junior researchers. The European Research Council (ERC) is providing up to 2 million Euros of funding to each of eleven junior researchers in Heidelberg, Freiburg, Tübingen, Karlsruhe and Ulm. The so-called "Starting Grants" support innovative research projects throughout Europe. With 11 out of 67 grants, one in six of the researchers from Germany to receive funding comes from Baden-Württemberg. This was revealed ... |
| 2010-11-03 | 10 years of Photonics BW - the network of competence for optical technologies. "Optical technologies are included amongst the technologies of the future for the 21st century. Each of us is already working with them, from communications technology to medicine. Photonics BW has been improving the cross-sectorial cooperation of researchers, manufacturers and users in this area for ten years. Thus, the network of competence is making a decisive contribution to the continued development... |
| 2010-11-02 | Ministry of Economics publishes Cluster Atlas 2010. "The new Cluster Atlas 2010 and the cluster database equipped with search functions and additional information provide a user-friendly and indispensable basis for practical experience relating to cluster policy for all the players in state politics on a local, regional and state-wide level, as well as in a national... |
| 2010-10-29 | The University of Tübingen opens new study centre in South Korea. The University of Tübingen will set up a study centre at Korea University in Seoul. As of the spring of 2012 the "Tübingen Centre for Korean Studies at Korea University" (TUCKU) will begin coordinating academic exchanges of students and professors between the University of Tübingen and Korea as well as joint research projects in Seoul. Students in Tübingen taking Korean studies will then be able to undertake two semesters... |
| 2010-10-28 | CHE ExcellenceRanking for universities in Europe Top rankings for Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Tübingen in the most recent ExcellenceRanking by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) for the subjects of biology, chemistry, mathematics and physics: five of the 26 German universities in the excellence group come from the south west. "The ranking list identifies the achievement of first-class working conditions,... |
| 2010-10-18 | Ten prize winners in the competition for funding for regional cluster initiatives Minister of Economics Ernst Pfister: "The funding of cluster initiatives is an important component of economic and innovation policy.". The jury has made its decision: out of the 20 competition proposals submitted in the second round of the Regional Cluster Initiatives Competition, it has selected ten particularly innovative approaches for the establishment or further development of cluster initiatives. Minister of Economics Ernst Pfister revealed this in Stuttgart today. "The winning ... |
| 2010-10-05 | Federal state government establishes Technology and Innovation Centre for Environmental Technology in Baden-Württemberg. The federal state government has established a Technology and Innovation Centre for Environmental Technology as part of the state initiative “Baden-Württemberg as Europe’s environmental innovation laboratory”. “With this... |
| 2010-10-04 | Federal state provides funding for innovative ideas in biotechnology and biomedical engineering. The federal state wants to make even better use of the great research potential of biotechnology and biomedical engineering in Baden-Württemberg. For this the Ministry of Science has announced a contest of ideas. Two million euros are.... |
| 2010-09-30 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) celebrates its first anniversary "Through the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Baden-Württemberg opened a new chapter in the history of Germany's science policy...... |
| 2010-09-30 | Science minister Prof. Frankenberg travels to Singapore to discuss higher education policies 2010 "Singapore is an attractive partner for scientists and students in Baden-Württemberg. Over recent years, the country has built on its role as South East Asia's economic and educational policy hub..... |
| 2010-09-24 | Biophotonics Symposium in Ulm opened “Nowadays, it is hardly possible to imagine medicine without lasers and optical technologies. The innovative methods of treatment which have emerged as a result of these are due to the results of research in physics, medicine and technology.” ... |
| 2010-09-24 | Universities of Applied Sciences start a marketing campaign “The new designation of technical colleges as Universities of Applied Sciences precisely describes the particular profile of this kind of university in practical teaching and applied research”, .... |
| 2010-08-31 | Stuttgart and Tübingen want to become elite universities Nine universities in Baden-Württemberg have applied for funding in the excellence initiative with a total of 36 project outlines..... |
| 2010-08-30 | Outcome of competitions for funding for the two state-wide networks, production engineering and mechatronics, decided Today, Minister of Economics Ernst Pfister revealed in Stuttgart that the association Manufuture-BW e.V. in Stuttgart came out top in the competition..... |
| 2010-07-23 | Funding of two new centres for applied research Science Minister Professor Dr. Peter Frankenberg announced today in Stuttgart that the Ministry of Science is funding two new centres..... |
| 2010-07-23 | Science Minister and Leibniz Association President visit Kiepenheuer Institut für Sonnenphysik Science minister Frankenberg: research all aspects of the sun..... |
| 2010-07-18 | South west exports university education Exporting education instead of graduates: with partnerships and their own universities abroad, Baden-Württemberg wants to help German companies to gain specialists for their international locations |
| 2010-07-16 | Tübingen - the first university in Germany to produce newly discovered active ingredients with a pharmacy level of purity - opens a GMP centre "Tübingen will be the first university in Germany to produce newly discovered activity ingredients with a pharmacy level of purity," said Permanent Secretary... |
| 2010-07-12 | Positive interim results achieved by the federal state's cluster policy activities Minister of Economics Ernst Pfister and Science Minister Dr. Peter Frankenberg have today taken positive stock of the cluster policy and cluster funding of the federal state government... |
| 2010-07-7 | New network researches into sustainable energy system By the year 2050, a new European-wide network of universities, companies and researchers will create a sustainable energy system for Europe... |
| 2010-07-7 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology's new Europe-wide network is launched Science Minister Prof. Peter Frankenberg identified the knowledge and innovation community "InnoEnergy", which was launched in an opening event... |
| 2010-06-17 | Minister for European Affairs Reinhart signs a joint declaration of the Four Motors in Barcelona The regions Lombardy, Rhône-Alpes, Catalonia and Baden-Württemberg decide to further strengthen international cooperation... |
| 2010-06-16 | 20 years of successful student exchanges between Baden-Württemberg and the Canadian Province of Ontario A reliable partnership supports student exchanges between the two states - a new exchange programme for academics is planned, according to Science Minister Frankenberg... |
| 2010-06-11 | Delegation travels to China - 30 years of scientific relations "Baden-Württemberg was the first Federal State to start collaborating with China 30 years ago. Today, 100 of the 500 German universities that have a partnership with China are in Baden-Württemberg... |
| 2010-06-08 | Baden-Württemberg at the forefront of research investment Essen/Stuttgart - Baden-Württemberg, together with Bavaria, has been ranked top in a German national comparison of successful research and investment in knowledge... |
| 2010-06-08 | Baden-Württemberg set to become Europe's 'environmental innovation laboratory' Federal State Government focuses on 'green technologies'... |
| 2010-06-06 | Minister Frankenberg awards State Research Prize Science Minister Dr. Peter Frankenberg will award this year's Baden-Württemberg State Research Prize on 8th July in Stuttgart.... |
| 2010-05-19 | European Energy Award Awarded to the City of Karlsruhe Considerable potential for the use of energy efficiency and the extension of renewable energies: "we need such dedicated colleagues when it comes to protecting the climate"... |
| 2010-05-19 | Opening of the European Center of Nagoya University at the University of Freiburg According to Science Minister Frankenberg, internationalisation is important for the strategic development of universities - Japan is an important partner in science and research... |
| 2010-05-06 | Solar researcher receives generous science prize The Freiburg solar researcher Frank Dimroth is to receive the most generous science prize in France... |
| 2010-05-04 | The Council of Ministers decides upon the implementation of the recommendations of the Council of Innovation According to Minister President, Stefan Mappus, State Secretary for the Economy, Richard Drautz and State Secretary for Science, Dr. Dietrich Birk, strong cooperation between business and academia preserves the state's leading position in terms of technology... |
| 2010-05-03 | CHE ranking list re-evaluates humanities, engineering, psychology and education University of Freiburg outstanding in a Germany-wide comparison - Biberach, Esslingen, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Constance and Ulm also high ranking... |
| 2010-04-30 | Two universities in the south west want to belong to the elite Stuttgart/Tübingen - There are already four in the south west - two more want to join: the universities in Stuttgart and Tübingen want to become elite universities... |
| 2010-04-30 | Ministry of the Environment boosts INTERREG IV-A project "Quality-focused land use management in small and medium-sized communities on the Upper Rhine" According to the Minister of the Environment, Tanja Gönner, "new strategies and tools for community land use management are to be developed across boundaries"... |
| 2010-04-29 | Environmental research is important for the adaptation to climate change and for effective protection of the climate, according to Minister of the Environment, Gönner Organic soils, particularly moors, as the source and the reduction of climate-related gases - around twice as many greenhouse gases are stored in the earth crust as in the atmosphere... |
| 2010-04-23 | State Research Prize Granted to Joachim Burghartz and Jörn Leonhard The award will be presented on July 8 at the New Castle in Stuttgart... |
| 2010-04-22 | Minister of Economics Ernst Pfister Congratulates ZSW’s Solar Researchers on Their World Record "Thin-film solar cell with the world’s highest efficiency rating provides impressive evidence of the state’s innovative power"... |
| 2010-04-20 | Experimental Solar Energy House of the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences celebrates Topping Out Ceremony Competition in Madrid... |
| 2010-04-14 | Cooperating in Europe - Companies from the region are succeeding in the transfer of technology Minister of Economics Pfister is calling for an increased focus by the EU on funding for innovations... |
| 2010-04-13 | University of Heidelberg opens a Centre for Quantum Dynamics "Chancing great things together" - Under this motto, the director of the new Heidelberg Centre for Quantum Dynamics wants to combine projects from wide-ranging faculties in the future... |
| 2010-04-06 | Albert Ludwig University Freiburg signs the European Charter and the Code of Conduct for Researchers The Albert Ludwig University Freiburg was the first German university to sign the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for Researchers... |
| 2010-03-31 | EU funding for scientist of Constance University Science Minister Frankenberg: congratulations to Professor Christoph Knill - high distinction for excellent achievements... |
| 2010-03-17 | Research institutions in the Karlsruhe area merge to form the new Fraunhofer Institute According to the Science Minister, Dr. Peter Frankenberg, there are excellent starting conditions for a leading research institution for image capturing and analysis... |
| 2010-03-05 | ECREIN+ project supports the development of "green" top regions in Europe "Working together is important in Europe to secure our wellbeing, a sustainable growth, and a future that is worth living through modern environmental technologies and eco-innovations" said Tanja Gönner, Minister for the Environment and Transport... |
| 2010-02-19 | European Research Council provides funding for two researchers in Heidelberg Science minister Frankenberg: funding for development of new research areas... |
| 2010-02-15 | Seven universities of applied sciences have chances to receive funding for a centre of applied research Allocation decision to be made in May... |
| 2010-02-02 | Freiburg University of Education co-ordinates three million euro project for restructuring maths teaching Only German project of four EU funded projects of this kind in 2009... |
| 2010-02-02 | Conference held in Ulm to mark start of preparations for the first EU strategy for the Donau region Minister for European Affairs Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reinhart: strengthen and jointly use synergies in business, science, research and technology... |
| 2010-01-26 | Second Round of the Clusters of Excellence competition: cluster from Baden-Württemberg receives government funding - success for Freiburg Science Minister Frankenberg and Minister of Economics Pfister say the efficiency of the microsystems technology in the south-west was demonstrated once again... |
| 2010-01-22 | Opening of the first German Centre of Treatment and Research for Rare Diseases (ZSE) at the University Hospital in Tübingen Permanent Secretary, Tappeser claims that this is further evidence for the excellent position of medicine at the University of Tübingen... |
| 2010-01-12 | Baden-Württemberg most successful German federal state in the 6th EU research framework programme 672 million euros for research projects in the state... |
