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Indo-German Joint Call of Proposals in the field of Biotechnology
Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of the Humboldt Foundation - new application round
The 9th Science Circle Lecture will be
organised on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at India
International Centre, New Delhi. Dr. Harald Mehl, Head
Environment & Security, German Remote Sensing Data Centre
(DFD), German Aerospace Centre (DLR) will deliver a talk on "The
German Remote Sensing Data Center: Technologies and solutions
for disaster management". The lecture will be followed by
informal discussions and a get-together.
For more details contact:
Ms. Bhumica Chugh
Dr. Heinz Wirth has taken over as the new
Science Counsellor at the German Embassy, New Delhi w.e.f
August 01, 2007.
Message
from Dr. Wirth
The 4th DAAD symposium for young
researchers from India pursuing their M.Phil. or Ph.D. in
German Studies shall take place in Pune on September 28-29,
2007. In the framework of this symposium, the young
researchers will get an opportunity to introduce their
research projects, to discuss the methodology and to interact
with scholars from other Indian universities
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A Programme of Cooperation defining
cooperation in Biotechnology was signed between Department of
Biotechnology, Govt. of India and Forschungszentrum Jülich (FzH)
Germany within the agreement of Indo-German Cooperation in S&T
of 1974 and the Special Arrangement in Biotechnology for the
period 2001-2006 signed on 15th Feb 2001. Under this programme,
proposals are invited in identified priority areas like
Microbial Biotechnology, Bioprocess Engineering, Structural
Biology, Stress Tolerance in plants etc.
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The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award is for younger outstanding scientists from all countries and from all disciplines. The Award allows young scientists to spend five years building up working groups and working on a high-profile, innovative research project of their choice at a research institution of their choice in Germany and is valued at 1.65 million EUR. Deadline for Application: 4 January 2008.
The DAAD, together with the Centre for
Higher Education Development (CHE) and the German weekly news
magazine "DIE ZEIT", offers a comprehensive and detailed
university ranking in Germany.
Ranking is available subject wise, University wise and city
wise.
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More than 500 students and scholars from
all over India have secured admission to a large number of
European universities spread all over the 27 EU Member States
thanks to the Erasmus Mundus (EM) scholarship funded by the
European Union
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