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| 2011-12-14 | "Regions of Central Europe develop new policies for increased innovation and competitiveness" "International competitiveness with its challenges in terms of innovation dynamics, climate change and sustainability requires new concepts for determining innovation in clusters," said Daniel Rousta, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Economics, at Wednesday... |
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| 2011-12-08 | "Two Leibniz prizes awarded to scientists from Baden-Württemberg" Computer scientist Professor Dr. Peter Sanders from Karlsruhe and physicist Professor Dr. Jörg Wrachtrup from Stuttgart are amongst the winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for 2012. With this, Baden-Württemberg has, once again, won two of the ten nationwide prizes which are... |
| 2011-12-02 | "50 years of the Max-Planck Institute for Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg" "Developing future-oriented fields of research - that is a great strength of the Max-Planck Society, and the Freiburg Centre for Immunobiology and Epigenetics is a very good example of this." The Permanent Secretary Dr Simone Schwanitz said this at today's celebration at the Freiburg... |
| 2011-11-24 | "Bauer signs agreement with the National University of Singapore" On Thursday the Science Minister Theresia Bauer was in Freiburg to sign an agreement between the Ministry of Science and the National University of Singapore (NUS) to renew the partnership that has been in place since 2006 for a further five years. The agreement aims to promote... |
| 2011-11-16 | "Kretschmann wants to strengthen scientific cooperation with Argentina" Baden-Württemberg wants to strengthen its scientific cooperation with Argentina, in order to promote the economic exchange. Minister President Winfried Kretschmann and the Argentinean Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman announced this on Tuesday after a meeting in Buenos Aires. ... |
| 2011-11-14 | "Innovation Alliance of the Karlsruhe Technology Region launched" "The new Innovation Alliance of the Karlsruhe Technology Region is an exciting example of the strengths that characterise Baden-Württemberg: economically strong, innovative and dynamic in the interaction between science and industry. These strengths make us innovation region No. 1 in ... |
| 2011-10-22 | "Conclusion of the 625th anniversary year of the University of Heidelberg" "The University of Heidelberg is still a hub of the international scientific community, as it was six hundred years ago. Today, as then, it is setting standards for science and research. It is still managing to produce and obtain brilliant scientists." Science Minister Theresia Bauer said ... |
| 2011-10-20 | "Integrated research on sustainable mobility" On Thursday, 20th October 2011, the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, Winfried Hermann, visited the University of Stuttgart to get an overview of the approaches to research regarding the subject of "sustainable mobility". In a tour through the Research Institute of ... |
| 2011-10-07 | "Science initiative of the Trinational Metropolitan Region of the Upper Rhine" "With its multiplicity of dynamic scientists, researchers, innovative companies and a vast capacity for R&D, the Trinational Metropolitan Region of the Upper Rhine (TMU, incorporating German, Swiss and French territories) ranks amongst the most economically powerful regions in Europe. With ... |
| 2011-09-28 | "European Research Council provides funding for 16 junior researchers in Baden-Württemberg" "32 millions Euros for junior researchers in the South West: The European Research Council (ERC) is providing up to 2 million Euros to each participating city to fund 16 junior researchers in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Tübingen, Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Ulm... |
| 2011-09-15 | "Inauguration ceremony of new ZSW Laboratory for Battery Technology" "The new state government is, with its consistent funding of electromobility, creating the framework for the automobiles of the future to be researched, developed and manufactured in Baden-Württemberg. We want electromobility to become a part of everyday life,” explained the Minister of Finance and Economics, Nils Schmid... |
| 2011-08-30 | "Excellence Initiative II: south west with 30 applications in the running" "The universities from Baden-Württemberg are entering the final round of Excellence Initiative II with a total of 30 projects. All the universities must submit their applications to the German Research Foundation (DFG) by 1st September; between October and February they will be evaluated. The decision will be made... |
| 2011-07-28 | "Innovation culture in Baden-Württemberg at a record level" "The innovation culture in Baden-Württemberg has reached a new record level", declared the Finance and Economics Minister, Nils Schmid, today in Stuttgart. The State Office for Statistics disclosed that the proportion of expenditure on research and development, in relation to the gross domestic product in Baden-Württemberg, has reached a record level of 4.8 percent. In comparison to the... |
| 2011-07-28 | "Science and research policy will continue to help to consolidate and extend Baden-Württemberg's top-ranking position as an innovative state" In Stuttgart today (28th July), when figures on research intensity in Baden-Württemberg were published by the State Office for Statistics, Science Minister Theresia Bauer declared: "Baden-Württemberg has significantly extended its top-ranking position in research and development in Germany with an R&D intensity of 4.8 percent. From this, it is clear how... |
| 2011-07-27 | State funds new innovative projects at universities of applied sciences The state is providing a total of 190,000 euros' worth of funding to three new innovative research projects at the universities of applied sciences in Aalen, Furtwangen and Constance. Included in the funding of the "Innovative Projects" programme are research projects in the fields of ... |
| 2011-07-14 | Minister of Finance and Economics Schmid opens the Day of the Innovation Alliance Baden-Württemberg Research institutions present highlights of their research |
| 2011-07-14 | Chemical sources of energy are the basis for a sustainable energy supply. The “Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) InnoEnergy” initiates a dialogue between industry and science |
| 2011-07-13 | Meeting of the Presidents of the "Four Motors of Europe" in Barcelona Minister Silke Krebs: the network focuses on sustainable innovations |
| 2011-07-11 | Kick-off meeting for the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region Minister President Winfried Kretschmann: Initiate and implement projects from which the people in the Danube region can benefit immediately |
| 2011-07-10 | Ministry of Finance and Economics funds Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (SEZ) with 618,000 euros "The SEZ is a door-opener in the state for EU funding programmes in the areas of innovation, technology transfer and research" |
| 2011-06-22 | Three clusters from Baden-Württemberg in the final selection of the German top cluster competition According to Science Minister Theresia Bauer and Minister of Finance and Economics Nils Schmid, the cooperation of science and industry is an important pillar for innovation and progress. |
| 2011-06-16 | Ministry of Finance and Economics funds House of Living Labs in FZI Karlsruhe The Minister of Finance and Economics is funding the construction of the "House of Living Labs" in the Research Centre for Information Technology (FZI) in Karlsruhe with 850,000 euros from the European Regional Development Fund. "With the House of Living Labs, a bridge is being built between technology users, industry and science," explained the Minister of Finance and Economics, Nils Schmid... |
| 2011-06-15 | National Science Council research rating in the subjects electrical engineering and information technology. Excellent performance of the research locations Freiburg and Karlsruhe. Science Minister Bauer: strategically important disciplines for the energy revolution. |
| 2011-05-30 | State Research Prize goes to Tübingen researchers Handgretinger and Weigel Top research is the pillar of the centre of business and science Baden-Württemberg, according to Minister Theresia Bauer. |
| 2011-05-18 | KIT develops a biomass power plant of the second generation The procedure sounds like something from a fairytale: The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) wants to spin black gold out of straw. The “bioliq” procedure transforms biomass into fuel for diesel and petrol engines. On Wednesday, KIT celebrated the topping-out ceremony of the 60 million euro plant in... |
| 2011-05-17 | Bosch supports universities with 50 million Euros A windfall for science: For its 125th anniversary, the world’s largest car parts supplier Bosch wants to fund selected research projects with 50 million euros. The “Bosch InterCampus Program” is set to last around... |
| 2011-05-02 | Study: universities of Mannheim and Freiburg at the top Universities in Freiburg and Mannheim come out top in a new comparative study. The Centre for Higher Education (Centrum für Hochschulentwicklung - CHE) in Gutersloh classed the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg as "outstanding". It achieved five top scores in... |
| 2011-03-24 | New Institute for Enterprise Systems at Mannheim University An interdisciplinary research institute for enterprise software is currently being established at the University of Mannheim in a close cooperation between businesses, the university and the state government. The institute will specialise in the development and use of... |
| 2011-03-24 | State vehicle fleet receives fuel cell vehicles – Baden Württemberg has Germany’s biggest public fuel cell vehicle fleet On Tuesday (22. March 2011) the state of Baden-Württemberg was presented with three further fuel cell vehicles for the state’s fleet. Three B class F-CELL vehicles from Daimler AG will, in the future, be available for the employees of the Ministry of Science and Economics as well as e-mobil BW, the state agency for electromobility and fuel cell technology, to use as official vehicles... |
| 2011-03-24 | State increases funding for electromobility research by one million euros The state is increasing funding for electromobility research by one million euros. The Ministry of Science and the Ministry of Economics today announced a new programme for the funding of so-called joint research projects... |
| 2011-03-16 | Freiburg junior professor awarded Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2011 “The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2011 is an immense personal success and high accolade for junior professor Dr. Henrike Manuwald from Freiburg University. I congratulate the literary expert on receiving the most important prize for young academics in Germany. I am particularly pleased that one of the six awards went to Baden-Württemberg... |
| 2011-03-16 | Biggest funding prize in Germany Physicist Bernhard Keimer and Egyptologist Joachim Friedrich Quack from Baden-Württemberg were each awarded the Leibniz Prize in Berlin on Wednesday. They were honoured together with eight other... |
| 2011-02-15 | Max Planck Institute establishes new area of research "Intelligent Systems" in Stuttgart and Tübingen “The decision of the Max Planck Society to restructure the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and hereby create the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems with an additional facility... |
| 2011-01-27 | Encourage dialogue about efficient energy use in cities and communities More than half of the population lives in cities and produces 70 per cent of emissions. It is predicted that by 2050, 70 per cent of us will live in cities. The use of energy is, therefore, an extremely important issue for cities... |
| 2011-01-21 | European Research Council provides funding to six researchers in the southwest Success for researchers from Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart The European Research Council (ERC) is to provide funding to six researchers from Baden-Württemberg with subsidies from the Advanced Grants support programme, totaling up to 2.5 million euros each. This was... |
| 2011-01-21 | State government concludes catalogue of measures for implementation of Danube strategy In a few months' time, the EU's Danube strategy, which Baden-Württemberg has had a significant hand in instigating, is set to be signed and thereby approved by the European Council. In order to ensure that Baden-Württemberg is well prepared and optimally positioned for the... |
| 2011-01-20 | EU Commission President Barroso praises Baden-Württemberg as a strong partner for the EU Minister President Stefan Mappus looked back on the visit to Baden-Württemberg of José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission and draw "an absolute successful balance". Barroso's visit made it clear that the European Union relies on... |
| 2011-01-17 | Opening of the new Helmholtz Institute for Battery Research in Ulm Efficient and intelligent energy storage is the key to electromobility and to the integration of renewable energies into our energy system. The new Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Research in Ulm is set to... |
