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India as Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt
Book Fair 2006
Visit of Indian Group to the Lindau Nobel
Laureate Meeting, June 2006
Bangalore Bio 2006
Visit of a German Delegation to India
European Union Day at Bangalore Bio, June 08, 2006
India as partner country at Hannover Fair
Germany-India Joint Statement issued on the occasion of the Visit
of Prime Minister of India to Germany
TU9 Delegation to India, April 2006
MPG Delegation to India, March 2006
Indo German Meeting on Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology
, March 12, 2006
Excellence Initiative to promote Institutions of
Higher Education in Germany
Initial Decisions taken on the Excellence
Initiative
Latest report on Germany’s technological
efficiency, May 2006
Chancellor Merkel: Research and Technology the
focal point of German policies in the years to come
India will be the Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair to be held from October 04-08, 2006. Apart from a series of events throughout the year, thirty authors will present their work among them Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy and Javed Akhtar. The presentation will specially focus on authors who write in one of the twenty four other languages of India apart from English.
The Department of Science and Technology deputes every year since 2001, a team of young scientists to the Annual Meeting of the Nobel Laureates and Students in Lindau, Germany.
The Group visits Germany
for two weeks, the first week is sponsored by the Lindau
Committee for the meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students and
the second week includes visits to various premier German
research organisations and is organised by German Research
Foundation (DFG). 27 Indian students have been selected for
the 2006 visit.
The Biotech Trade Fair Bangalore Bio would
be organised from June 07-09, 2006. The main attractions of
the show would be an International Conference, a B2B Forum,
CEO Conclave, European Union Day etc.
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The International Technology Cooperation Network (INTEC) is bringing a German Delegation to India to coincide with Bangalore Bio. The Delegation would visit Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune. One-to-one business meetings would be organised on June 08, 2006 at the trade fair grounds in Bangalore.
To receive the profile of the German companies and to register for the meetings contact
The EU day shall promote collaboration between researchers from India and Europe in the field of the life sciences. The various fields to be covered are health research, biotechnology, food safety, agriculture research etc. Representatives from the European Commission, Directorate General for Research, will provide details on existing opportunities for Indo-European Union research collaboration under present schemes as well as prospects for future collaboration within the 7th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
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India is amongst the fastest-growing
economies in the world and has witnessed significant change in
the last decade. The Hannover Messe presented India as its
partner country for 2006.
The Indian Prime Minister along with the Minister for Science
and Technology and Ocean Development, Kapil Sibal, accompanied
by a high ranking delegation visited Germany during this
period. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the German
Chancellor Angela Merkel jointly inaugurated the fair. The
setting up of an Indo-German Science, Research and Technology
Centre was also announced.
A delegation of the representatives of the TU9 visited various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) from April 02-06, 2006. TU9 is a joint body of nine major Technical Universities of Germany viz. Aachen, Berlin, Braunschweig, Darmstadt, Dresden, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Munich. The visit organised by DAAD was intended to give new impetus to the cooperation between TU9 and the IITs.
Directors from six Max Planck Institutes visited India from March 5-10, 2006. The focus of the delegation was on Immune- and Molecular Biology, Infection Biology and Developmental Biology. The Delegation visited institutes in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi.
Under the provisions of the DST-DFG MoU
signed in October 2004, a meeting on Microbiology, Immunology
and Cell Biology was organised at the International Centre for
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB). The event,
co-sponsored by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR)
brought together the DFG and Max Planck Delegations comprising
of eminent German scientists and Indian counterparts from ICMR
institutes, ICGEB, National Institute of Immunology etc.
List of Delegation Members
Programme
The Delegation members also participated in an interactive
meeting with a group of Indian scientists and Science
administrators organised on March 11, 2006 where the
representatives from DST, ICMR, MPG and DFG gave an overview
of the present status of the Indo-German Research Cooperation
and discussed mechanisms for development of appropriate
funding schemes.
With an aim to attract tourists from new and promising markets such as India, China and Russia, the European Union has created a new user friendly website www.visiteurope.com which provides practical information to the tourists on 34 remarkably diverse countries of the European Travel Commission.
Thanks to the World Cup, the world will be looking at Germany this year. This is an opportunity to present a multifaceted picture of Germany, the Land of Ideas with 365 places - one for each day of the year.
11 of the places in the land
of ideas are presented by the German Research Organisation
Fraunhofer Society.
The 1st one was presented on 05.01.2006
(Electronics
and IT Technologies)
The 7th one would be presented on 22.06.2006
(Software
Engineering)
On 23 June 2005 the German federal and state governments agreed on an “Excellence Initiative” to promote top-level research in Germany. The total budget for this initiative would be 1.9 billion Euros for a period of five years which will be split between three lines of funding
Graduate Schools to promote young researchers
Clusters of Excellence and
Institutional strategies to promote top-level university research
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