Inhaltsverzeichnis - kooperation-international · Ausgabe 04/12 20. April Strategisch International Informativ Inhaltsverzeichnis Berichterstattung zur Forschungs-, Bildungs-, Technologie-

Ausgabe 04/12

20. April

Strategisch

International

Informativ

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Berichterstattung zur Forschungs-, Bildungs-, Technologie- und Innovationspolitik weltweit

Global ................................................................................................................... 9

International Scientific Community Issues First “State of the Planet Declaration” ..................................................................................................... 9

Readiness to Work with Scientific Community on Large-Scale Scientific Initiative .......................................................................................................... 10

Open Access to Scientific Information: Policy Guidelines Released ............. 10

New Publications Track the Care and Education of Young Children ............ 11

UN-Backed Study Shows Technology Can Help World Move to Low-Carbon Economy ........................................................................................................ 12

International Human Microbe Program Looks Ahead ................................... 12

OECD Releases Guide for Public Engagement and Outreach in Nanotechnology ............................................................................................. 13

At the Meeting on PIREN Establishment, ISESCO Director General Calls for a Broader Networking of Islamic World’s Academic Institutions ................... 13

EU / Europa ........................................................................................................ 14

Measuring Performance: Country Factsheets ............................................... 14

A New Regional Competitiveness Index: Theory, Methods and Findings .... 14

New Initiatives to Assist Small Enterprises to Go International ..................... 15

Innovationspartnerschaften: Neue Vorschläge zu Rohstoffen, Landwirtschaft und gesundem Altern zur Förderung der europäischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ....................................................................................................................... 16

European Commission Enters the Field of Transnational and Demand-Driven Innovation Vouchers ...................................................................................... 17

Biomass – A Nordic-Baltic Opportunity? ........................................................ 18

Frankreich .......................................................................................................... 19

63 Projects Selected for the 13th FUI Call for Projects ................................. 19

Auszeichnung von Projekten innovativer Ausbildungsgänge im Rahmen des Programms „Zukunftsinvestitionen“ ............................................................... 19

Zwei neue Exzellenzzentren für Onkologie im Rahmen des Programms „Zukunftsinvestitionen“ benannt ..................................................................... 20

Forschungsminister Wauquiez stellt französische Raumfahrtstrategie vor ... 21

Großbritannien .................................................................................................. 21

Report Calls for Universities to Be at Heart of Economy ............................... 21

Nesta Becomes an Independent Charity ....................................................... 22

UK Biobank Opens for Research ................................................................... 23

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Japan .................................................................................................................. 23

Teilchenbeschleuniger mit 40fach höherer Leistung ..................................... 23

Kanada ............................................................................................................... 24

Government of Canada Commits New Funding to Support Advanced Research Infrastructure at Canadian Universities and Colleges ................... 24

CIHR and NSERC Are Pleased to Announce the 2012 Launch of the Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program ........................... 24

Government of Canada’s New Knowledge Synthesis Grants Will Identify Best Practices in Innovation Policy ........................................................................ 25

USA .................................................................................................................... 26

Less Paperwork, More Research: Improving Federal Grant Policies ........... 26

Electric Vehicle Grand Challenge Targets Technology and Cost Breakthroughs ............................................................................................... 26

Big Data Is a Big Deal.................................................................................... 27

Fermilab Told to Rein in Planned Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment ........ 28

Neue Max-Planck-Princeton-Partnerschaft in der Fusionsforschung ........... 28

Energy Department Announces up to $ 15 Million to Research Biomass-Based Supplements for Traditional Fuels...................................................... 29

Obama Administration Announces $ 14.2 Million in New Funding to Develop Lightweight Materials for Advanced Vehicles ................................................ 30

Secretary Chu Announces New Institute to Help Scientists Improve Massive Data Set Research on DOE Supercomputers ............................................... 31

Ägypten .............................................................................................................. 31

Egypt Sets a New Course for Its Scientific Efforts ........................................ 31

Algerien .............................................................................................................. 32

Northern Node of Pan-African University Launched in Algeria ..................... 32

Australien ........................................................................................................... 33

Agreement Secures Future of the Australian Synchrotron ............................ 33

Brasilien ............................................................................................................. 33

Brazil Hosts Latin America Open Educational Resources Regional Forum .. 33

Brazil’s Biofuel Sector: What Future? ............................................................ 34

China .................................................................................................................. 35

Chinese Universities Send Big Signals to Foreigners ................................... 35

Another Bumper Year for Chinese Science ................................................... 35

Finnland ............................................................................................................. 36

Academy Invested 341 Million Euros in Research in 2011 ........................... 36

Finnish Researchers Successful in Latest ERC Grant Round ...................... 36

Researchers Draw up Scientific Resilience Test for Finland’s Economy ...... 37

Indien .................................................................................................................. 37

India Joins European Neutron Facility in Grenoble ....................................... 37

Irland .................................................................................................................. 38

Irish Government Invests 1.2 Million Euros in Cloud Computing Technology Research Centre ............................................................................................ 38

Government’s Plan to Target Core 500 Million Euros Research Budget at Turning Good Ideas into Good Jobs .............................................................. 38

Minister Sherlock Launches New Irish Research Council ............................. 39

Norwegen ........................................................................................................... 40

Evaluation of Basic ICT Research: Vast Potential – Too Little Investment ... 40

Research Infrastructure: Updated National Strategy and Roadmap ............. 41

EEA (European Economic Area) Provides Millions for Research Collaboration: Norway and Romania Sign Cooperation Agreement ............. 42


Norway and the New EU Framework Programme: Wants More Marine and Maritime Research in Horizon 2020 .............................................................. 43

Österreich .......................................................................................................... 43

Wissenschafts- und Forschungsminister Töchterle unterstreicht hohen Stellenwert des Wissenschaftsfonds für junge Wissenschaftler ................... 43

Schweden .......................................................................................................... 44

Impacts of Innovation Policy – Lessons from VINNOVA’s Impact Studies ... 44

Singapur ............................................................................................................ 45

SMEs to Benefit from R&D Investments........................................................ 45

EIU Identifies Singapore as Asia’s Most Competitive City and Ranks Third Globally .......................................................................................................... 45

Spanien .............................................................................................................. 45

Bigger-Than-Expected Budget Cuts Hit Spanish Scientists .......................... 45

Südafrika ............................................................................................................ 46

Sub-Saharan Africans Join Forces for TB Vaccine Research ...................... 46

Ungarn ............................................................................................................... 47

The Science and Technology Observatory Starts Its Operation Soon .......... 47

Impressum ......................................................................................................... 48


Themen Schlüsseltechnologien

OECD Releases Guide for Public Engagement and Outreach in Nanotech-nology ............................................................................................................ 13







Energie

International Scientific Community Issues First “State of the Planet Declara-tion” .................................................................................................................. 9



Energy Department Announces up to $ 15 Million to Research Biomass-Based Supplements for Traditional Fuels...................................................... 29


Umwelt

International Scientific Community Issues First “State of the Planet Declaration” ..................................................................................................... 9

Readiness to Work with Scientific Community on Large-Scale Scientific Initia-tive ................................................................................................................. 10


Biomass – A Nordic-Baltic Opportunity? ........................................................ 18



Lebenswissenschaften

International Human Microbe Program Looks Ahead .................................... 12

Zwei neue Exzellenzzentren für Onkologie im Rahmen des Programms „Zu-kunftsinvestitionen“ benannt .......................................................................... 20


CIHR and NSERC Are Pleased to Announce the 2012 Launch of the Colla-borative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program .................................... 24

Sub-Saharan Africans Join Forces for TB Vaccine Research ....................... 46

Mobilität

Electric Vehicle Grand Challenge Targets Technology and Cost Break-throughs ......................................................................................................... 26


Kommunikation


Raumfahrt


Demografischer Wandel



Bildung






Brazil Hosts Latin America Open Educational Resources Regional Forum .. 33


Hochschulen



Report Calls for Universities to Be at Heart of Economy............................... 21

Government of Canada Commits New Funding to Support Advanced Re-search Infrastructure at Canadian Universities and Colleges ....................... 24



Fachkräfte



Wissenschafts- und Forschungsminister Töchterle unterstreicht hohen Stel-lenwert des Wissenschaftsfonds für junge Wissenschaftler .......................... 43

Rahmenbedingungen


Readiness to Work with Scientific Community on Large-Scale Scientific Initia-tive.................................................................................................................. 10

Open Access to Scientific Information: Policy Guidelines Released ............. 10

OECD Releases Guide for Public Engagement and Outreach in Nanotech-nology ............................................................................................................ 13

At the Meeting on PIREN Establishment, ISESCO Director General Calls for a Broader Networking of Islamic World’s Academic Institutions.................... 13



Egypt Sets a New Course for Its Scientific Efforts ......................................... 31



EEA (European Economic Area) Provides Millions for Research Collabora-tion: Norway and Romania Sign Cooperation Agreement ............................. 42





FuE-Budgets

Another Bumper Year for Chinese Science .................................................. 35


EEA (European Economic Area) Provides Millions for Research Collabora-tion: Norway and Romania Sign Cooperation Agreement............................. 42

Bigger-Than-Expected Budget Cuts Hit Spanish Scientists .......................... 45

Förderung

International Human Microbe Program Looks Ahead ................................... 12






CIHR and NSERC Are Pleased to Announce the 2012 Launch of the Colla-borative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program ................................... 24






Energy Department Announces up to $ 15 Million to Research Biomass-Based Supplements for Traditional Fuels ...................................................... 29




Academy Invested 341 Million Euros in Research in 2011 ........................... 36

Finnish Researchers Successful in Latest ERC Grant Round ...................... 36



EEA (European Economic Area) Provides Millions for Research Collabora-tion: Norway and Romania Sign Cooperation Agreement ............................. 42


Wissenschafts- und Forschungsminister Töchterle unterstreicht hohen Stel-lenwert des Wissenschaftsfonds für junge Wissenschaftler .......................... 43

SMEs to Benefit from R&D Investments ........................................................ 45

FuE-Infrastruktur





Big Data Is a Big Deal .................................................................................... 27





Agreement Secures Future of the Australian Synchrotron ............................ 33

India Joins European Neutron Facility in Grenoble ....................................... 37


Innovation













Cluster





Kooperation Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft



Report Calls for Universities to Be at Heart of Economy ............................... 21




KMU


Europe,an Commission Enters the Field of Transnational and Demand-Driven Innovation Vouchers ........................................................................... 17

SMEs to Benefit from R&D Investments ........................................................ 45

Wirtschaft und Märkte



Researchers Draw up Scientific Resilience Test for Finland’s Economy ...... 37



Indikatorik





Evaluation





Foresight



Internationalisierung


Biomass – A Nordic-Baltic Opportunity? ....................................................... 18



Sub-Saharan Africans Join Forces for TB Vaccine Research ...................... 46


Global

International Scientific Community Issues First “State of the Planet Declaration”

Scientists issued the first “State of the Planet” declaration at a major gathering of experts on global environmental and social issues in advance of the major UN Summit Rio+20 in June. It states that consensus is growing that we have driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, where many planetary-scale processes are dominated by human activities. It concludes society must not delay taking urgent and large-scale action.

Over 3,000 experts in climate change, environmental geo-engineering, interna-tional governance, the future of the oceans and biodiversity, global trade, devel-opment, poverty alleviation, food security and more discussed the intricate con-nections between all the different systems and cycles governing our ocean, air, land and the human and animal life dependent on those environments.

The conference presented new initiatives as recommendations for the Rio+20 Summit:

• Going beyond GDP by taking into account the value of natural capital when measuring progress.

• A new framework for developing a set of goals for global sustainability for all nations.

• Creating a UN Sustainable Development Council to integrate social, eco-nomic and environmental policy at the global level.

• Launching a new international research programme, Future Earth, that will focus on solutions.

• Initiating regular global sustainability analyses.

The conference also previewed the first Inclusive Wealth Report, developed by UN University’s International Human Dimensions Programme (UNU-IHDP) and the UN Environment Programme.

Based on a new economic indicator that measures natural, human and pro-duced capital, the tool goes beyond GDP and can provide guidance for econom-ic development towards sustainability. The report, scheduled to be published at Rio+20, will describe the capital base of 20 nations: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, Nige-ria, Norway, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, USA, United Kingdom and Venezuela.

Quelle

→ http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/press_room.asp

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“State of the Planet” declaration → http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/pdf/state_of_planet_declaration.pdf

Weitere Informationen

Beyond GDP: Experts Preview “Inclusive Wealth” Indicator to Reflect Sustainability of Natural, Human as well as Manufactured Capital http://www.planetunderpressure2012.net/pdf/pr_28_03_12_barriers_to_change.pdfBericht warnt vor wachsender Urbanisierung bis 2050 → http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=DE_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=

34453 Brazil, India, South Africa join new research fund → http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/planet-under-pressure-2012-

2/news/brazil-india-south-africa-join-new-research-fund.html Developing countries 'need a say in geoengineering debates' → http://www.scidev.net/en/agriculture-and-environment/planet-under-pressure-2012-

2/news/developing-countries-need-a-say-in-geoengineering-debates--1.html

Ausführliche Länder- und Themeninformationen bei Kooperation international

Fokus Global → http://www.kooperation-international.de/global

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Rahmenbedingungen im VDI Technologiezentrum

Dr. Silke Stahl-Rolf, Tel. 0211/6214-632, [email protected]

Schlagworte

Energie, Umwelt, Demografischer Wandel, Bildung, Rahmenbedingungen, Indikatorik, Foresight

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Readiness to Work with Scientific Community on Large-Scale Scientific Initiative

Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s video message to the “Planet Under Pressure” conference, in London, 29 March:

Climate change, the financial crisis, and food, water and energy insecurity threaten human well-being and civilization as we know it. The scientific commu-nity can help us make sense of these complex and interconnected challenges, including by strengthening our understanding of “planetary boundaries” and “crit-ical thresholds”.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is just one example of what we can do together. But, policy makers often fail to turn to scientists for advice, or discount it too easily owing to electoral or other political considerations. At the same time, scientific advice is sometimes unclear or even contradictory. Scien-tists themselves often work in silos, ignoring broader factors.

My High-level Panel on Global Sustainability has just recommended that I con-sider naming a chief scientific adviser or establishing a scientific board to advise me and other organs of the United Nations. As I take this recommendation for-ward — with support from Director-General Bokova — I also intend to engage the scientific community on other projects, such as the Global Sustainable De-velopment Outlook report. I am also ready to work with the scientific community on the launch of a large-scale scientific initiative.

I welcome the State of the Planet declaration issued today by the co-chairs of this conference. Its timing, two months before the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, could not be better. Rio+20 is a major opportunity to advance the policy–science interface. I look forward to working with the scientific community towards a more coherent, science-based and effective approach to today’s global challenges.

Quelle

→ http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/sgsm14199.doc.htm



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Dr. Thomas Reineke, Tel. 0228/3821-1448, [email protected]



Schlagworte

Umwelt, Rahmenbedingungen

Open Access to Scientific Information: Policy Guidelines Released

Addressing a major concern of Member States, UNESCO has released a new publication entitled Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access to demystify the concept of Open Access and provide concrete steps on putting relevant policies in place. Besides strengthening capacities to adopt Open Access (OA) and to serve as a clearing-house on global OA debate, the 187th session of the Executive Board identified provision of upstream policy advice as the core priority while approving the Open Access Strategy on UNES-CO’s contribution to promotion of Open Access to scientific information and re-search.

Building capacities in Member States for Open Access is a necessary but not sufficient condition for promotion of OA. Creating an enabling policy environment in Member States for OA is therefore a priority. The new publication will serve the needs of OA policy development at the government, institutional and funding agency level.

The overall objective of the Policy Guidelines is to promote Open Access in Member States by facilitating understanding of all relevant issues related to Open Access.

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by Dr Alma Swan, an eminent expert in the field of Open Access, the draft went through an open consultation and peer review at the Open Access Community in the WSIS Knowledge Communities. The Policy Guidelines can be used by indi-viduals as a basic text on Open Access and related policies. The publication will be useful to both the beginners as well as experienced in the world of Open Access, and will assist the decision-makers, administrators and research man-agers to focus on OA policy development.

Open Access is at the heart of UNESCO’s mandate to provide universal access to information and knowledge, and the UNESCO Open Access programme shall continue to facilitate policy dialogue in Member States, share knowledge and best practices in the field of Open Access, and build and share local capacities through North-South and South-South co-operation to create knowledge socie-ties for sustainable development.

Quelle

→ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/open_access_to_scientific_information_policy_guidelines_for_open_access_released/

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Policy Guidelines for the Development and Promotion of Open Access → http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002158/215863e.pdf


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Schlagworte

Rahmenbedingungen

New Publications Track the Care and Education of Young Children

To improve Member States' capacity to monitor progress towards quality early childhood care and education (ECCE), UNESCO commissioned a group of ex-perts to conduct reviews of indicators related to early childhood development, spanning five areas critical to early childhood development: health and nutrition, social protection, child development and education, legal protection, and policy and planning.Now published, these reviews provide an inventory of these indica-tors, as well as recommendations for the content of the Holistic Early Childhood Development Index.

This Interagency Technical Committee to develop this index was created in De-cember 2010 and includes childhood development experts from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Un Kilo de Ayuda (Mexico), Save the Children, UNESCO, UN-ICEF, the WFP, the WHO and the World Bank.

Quelle

→ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/new_publications_track_the_care_and_education_of_young_children/

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Holistic Early Childhood Development Index → http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-

systems/early-childhood/monitoring-and-evaluation/holistic-ecdindex/


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Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Bildung im VDI Technologiezentrum

Dr. Andreas Ratajczak, Tel. 0211/6214-494, [email protected]

Schlagworte

Bildung, Indikatorik

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UN-Backed Study Shows Technology Can Help World Move to Low-Carbon Economy

The use of broadband in information and communication technology (ICT) can help the world transition to a low carbon-economy and address the causes and effects of climate change, according to a United Nations-backed report released today.

The report aims to raise awareness of the pivotal role information and communi-cation technology, particularly broadband networks, can play in helping creating a low-carbon economy. It also highlights the importance of public private part-nerships in accelerating change.

The report presents 10 recommendations for policymakers and leaders to has-ten and strengthen the power of ICT and broadband to accelerate global progress towards a low-carbon economy, including adopting long-term national broadband plans.

These recommendations include convergence in ICT strategies to align them with other sectors, such as energy, health, education and climate; clear regulato-ry rules to create a framework of investment certainty; cross-ministry collabora-tion and integrated decision-making to link climate and digital goals, and the use of government procurement to send the right market signals.

The report also calls for partnerships; harmonized metrics and common stan-dards and knowledge sharing.

Quelle

→ http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41687&Cr=sustainable+development&Cr1=

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The Broadband Bridge – Linking ICT with Climate Action for a low carbon economy → http://www.broadbandcommission.org/Documents/Climate/BD-bbcomm-climate.pdf



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Energie, Umwelt, Innovation

International Human Microbe Program Looks Ahead

Two key programs that helped jump-start the human micron research field are coming to an end, and follow-up efforts have yet to be put in place. It's also un-clear whether industry, government regulators, or the public are ready to take microbiome insights into the clinic.

That was the news this week in Paris as 650 researchers gathered for the third annual meeting sponsored by the International Human Microbiome Consortium, whose members include the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), European Commission (EC), and major health and science agencies from France, Japan, Canada, and several other countries. Both the NIH and EC microbiome pro-grams, which have provided $ 140 million and $ 27 million respectively over the past 5 years, are in their sunset phases right now, and the community is await-ing news about future funding from both sides of the Atlantic.

Quelle

→ http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/international-human-microbe-prog.html


The International Human Microbiome Consortium → http://www.human-microbiome.org EU MetaHIT Project → http://www.metahit.eu NIH Human Microbiome Project → http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp

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Fokus EU → http://www.kooperation-international.de/eu Fokus USA → http://www.kooperation-international.de/USA

Fachliche Ansprechpartner für EU im Internationalen Büro

Claudia Bernarding, Tel. 0228/3821-1839, [email protected] Dr. Olaf Heilmayer, Tel. 0228/3821-1443, [email protected]

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für USA im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Barbara Hellebrandt, Tel. 0228/3821-1433, [email protected]

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Förderung im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Lebenswissenschaften, Förderung

OECD Releases Guide for Public Engagement and Out-reach in Nanotechnology

This guide comprises eight key points for planning public engagement activities. It contains a set of questions to help policy makers develop a plan from start to finish, as well as practical case studies from countries that have used the guide in their communication activities.

Quelle

→ http://www.oecd.org/department/0,3355,en_2649_33703_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

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Planning Guide for Public Engagement and Outreach in Nanotechnology (2012) → http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/12/49961768.pdf


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Fachliche Ansprechpartner für OECD im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Sonja Bugdahn (Forschung), Tel. 0228/3821-1474, [email protected] Peter Klandt (Bildung), Tel. 0228/3821-1506, [email protected]



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Schlüsseltechnologien, Rahmenbedingungen

At the Meeting on PIREN Establishment, ISESCO Director General Calls for a Broader Networking of Islamic World’s Academic Institutions

The Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organi-zation (ISESCO), Dr Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, this morning (19 March 2012) at ISESCO headquarters presided over the opening of the First Meeting of Country Coordinators for the Establishment of the Pan-Islamic Research and Education Network (PIREN).

In his address on that occasion, the Director General said “Recent years saw the emergence of a new paradigm for internet-based linkage of academic and re-search circles through research and education networks. Having widely spread across the world, this networking is linking small groups in a manner similar to the concept of "public use internet", but with a fundamental difference: these groups exchange data concerned with research and education. These networks seek to facilitate communication between experts from different educational horizons in such a way as to improve understanding of research and education outputs and integrate them into increasingly pluralistic societies. Networks spe-cialized in providing advanced services to researchers prove useful for students, teachers and other social categories.”

The purpose of this project, he further explained, is not to add a network to a series of already existing networks, but to build effective and sustainable linkag-es among Islamic countries, in such a way as to promote research and educa-

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tion in the Member States, enhance communication between scientists and re-searchers, boost their capacities, and help them achieve their goals.

Quelle

→ http://www.isesco.org.ma/english/news/news.php?id=1788

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Project proposal for the Pan-Islamic Research & Education Network (PIREN) → http://www.isesco.org.ma/english/piren/projet.pdf Fokus Global → http://www.kooperation-international.de/global



Schlagworte

Bildung, Hochschulen, Rahmenbedingungen

EU / Europa

Measuring Performance: Country Factsheets

The European Commission is publishing country factsheets outlining the progress of individual Member States in meeting their agreed targets under the Europe 2020 Strategy. The factsheets give the state of play in various themes under the three headline targets of the Strategy: Smart, Sustainable and Inclu-sive Growth. The factsheets will be an invaluable support in the negotiations on the next period of EU cohesion funding (2014–2020). They place each country in a European perspective by measuring performance and comparing to the EU average, as well as the best and the worst performers in the Union.

Each fact sheet shows the country's national target, the EU target and the high-est and lowest targets adopted by other countries. In addition, it measures how far that country is from the target it has set itself and compares this to the EU and the most and least ambitious country.

These factsheets are based primarily on data from Eurostat, but also from the Joint Research Centre, the European Environmental Agency, the World Bank and other sources. The targets have been collected from official documents. In some cases, absolute targets have been translated into relative targets to allow for a cross country comparison.

Quelle

→ http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/newsroom/detail.cfm?id=176

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Country Factsheets

http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information/brochures/pages/country2012/index_en.cfm


Fokus EU → http://www.kooperation-international.de/eu



Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Indikatorik im VDI Technologiezentrum

Miguel Krux, Tel. 0211/6214-460, [email protected]

Schlagworte

Innovation, Indikatorik

A New Regional Competitiveness Index: Theory, Methods and Findings

The regional indicator ‘EU Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI)’ is the first composite indicator which provides a synthetic picture of territorial competitive-ness for each of the NUTS 2 regions of the 27 EU Member States. It builds on and modifies the approach of the Global Competitiveness Index of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and consists of eleven pillars grouped in three groups:

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Basic, Efficiency and Innovation. It takes into account the level of development of the region by emphasizing basic issues in less developed regions, and inno-vative capacity in more developed regions. The pillars measure not only issues relevant to firms but also those relevant to residents of the regions in question and their quality of life.

Quelle

→ http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/newsroom/detail.cfm?id=174

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A New Regional Competitiveness Index: Theory, Methods and Findings. → http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/docgener/work/2011_02_competitivenes

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Schlagworte

Innovation, Indikatorik

New Initiatives to Assist Small Enterprises to Go Interna-tional

On the occasion of the third meeting of SME envoys in Brussels, Vice President Antonio Tajani announced a series of new and updated initiatives to assist Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to go international. These include new European Commission projects to support clusters of SMEs in the sectors of clean technologies, renewable energy, bio-technology, and sports goods so SMEs can take full advantage of the strong growth in these sectors in Asia, Latin America, North America and Russia. The EU's China Intellectual Property Rights

SME Helpdesk has broadened its range of interactive services and each year enables thousands of EU SMEs to secure and defend their intellectual property in this key market. Furthermore, more than 600 business support centres from the Enterprise Europe Network help SMEs to become successful in Europe and beyond. Finally organisers can register events to promote entrepreneurship dur-ing the European SME week in October 2012.

Clusters provide a fertile business environment for companies, especially SMEs, to collaborate with research institutions, suppliers, customers and competitors located in the same geographical area. There are a considerable number of clusters in Europe – over 1, 000 – and nearly as many cluster organisations (of which 495 have signed up to the European Cluster Collaboration Platform), in which cluster managers tend to be organised. They help SMEs to improve their performance.

To improve their performance, a new Commission pilot action aims to upgrade the profile of 25 experts working in clusters, so that they can act as 'multipliers' and train many other cluster managers to enable them to better support SMEs who want to trade globally. Some 30 cluster benchmarking evaluators will be trained and 80 clusters organisations are expected to be benchmarked against clusters that are performing elsewhere so they can all learn from each other and perform more effectively. These 80 cluster organisations will also sign up to the European Cluster Collaboration Platform which should help them obtain greater international exposure and ultimately new business and export opportunities for their SMEs.

The projects involve 20 organisations in Greece, Ireland, Hungary and Turkey encompassing further partners from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Icel-and, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Spain. The overall EC contribution amounts to more than 1.5 million euros.

In addition, four new projects will help SME members of clusters to find partners for international cooperation with a view to developing transnational cluster co-operation beyond Europe. The four cluster projects focus on:

• New material and processes on clean technologies: The aim is to reach cooperation agreements with 6 international clusters to increase business

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and technological partnerships opportunities in North and South America, Asia, North Africa and/or Russia for at least 20 SMEs or R&D laboratories.

• Renewables and sustainable energy: This project focuses on internationali-sation strategies in energy efficiency and smart grids, in key growing mar-kets like US, Latin America, China, India and Russia paving the way for Eu-ropean products and technologies to access target markets. Among others, collaboration agreements with at least 8 international partners will be set up and 50 business opportunities for SMEs will be identified.

• Biotechnology crossing borders: A common internationalisation strategy of cluster SMEs in the life sciences sector will be developed through sharing of resources between four advanced EU clusters from France, Germany, Italy and Spain in USA, China and Brazil, thus extending the visibility of the 4 clusters worldwide increasing business and R&D opportunities for at least 16 SMEs.

• Sport goods and services: The project will improve the presence of SMEs in the sports business sector in foreign markets, notably for sport goods, facili-ties, and events. The project involves three clusters from France, the Neth-erlands and Spain and the target markets are Brazil and Russia. At least 5 collaboration agreements with international partners are envisaged.

Major emerging markets such as China with strong growth rates represent sig-nificant opportunities for EU small and medium enterprises. The China IPR SME Helpdesk assists EU businesses to securely enter the Chinese market, reap additional profits and win new customers. Services are available free and in-clude confidential advice and interactive training on how to register IPR, prevent counterfeits and copying, and find reliable suppliers. Recent publications deal with clean technology, contracts, and dealing with Chinese customs. In 2011, some 50+ training & awareness raising events were organised by the helpdesk assisting some 2,400 EU SMEs across Europe and in China. In 2012, the Help-desk will increase its training offer through webinars, publish videos of EU SME experiences in China, and provide new interactive learning modules of emerging issues.

Quelle

→ http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/225&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=de


European Cluster Collaboration Platform → http://www.cluster-collaboration.eu/


China IPR SME Helpdesk → http://www.china-iprhelpdesk.eu/





Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Cluster und Internationalisierung im VDI Techno-logiezentrum


Schlagworte

Cluster, KMU, Internationalisierung

Innovationspartnerschaften: Neue Vorschläge zu Rohstof-fen, Landwirtschaft und gesundem Altern zur Förderung der europäischen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Die Europäische Kommission hat durchgreifende Maßnahmen vorgeschlagen, mit denen drei zentrale Herausforderungen für unsere Gesellschaft in Bereichen angegangen werden sollen, die für Wachstum und Beschäftigung entscheidend sind: die Versorgung mit Rohstoffen, nachhaltige Landwirtschaft und aktives und gesundes Altern. Alle drei Bereiche erfordern stärker aufeinander abgestimmte Innovationsanstrengungen im öffentlichen wie auch im privaten Sektor, um die

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Lebensqualität zu verbessern und Europa an weltweit führender Stelle zu positi-onieren. Die Kommission hat daher zwei neue europäische Innovationspartner-schaften ins Leben gerufen – eine für Rohstoffe und eine für landwirtschaftliche Produktivität und Nachhaltigkeit. Außerdem hat sie einen Vierjahres-Aktionsplan für die europäische Innovationspartnerschaft „Aktives und gesundes Altern“ (eine im Februar 2011 lancierte Pilot-Innovationspartnerschaft) gebilligt. Europä-ische Innovationspartnerschaften verfolgen einen neuen Ansatz hinsichtlich der gesamten Forschungs-, Entwicklungs- und Innovationskette, indem sie öffentli-che und private Akteure über Grenzen und Sektoren hinweg zusammenführen, um die Durchsetzung von Innovationen zu beschleunigen. Sie müssen jeweils bis 2020 ein ambitioniertes Ziel erreichen und sollen innerhalb von 1-3 Jahren erste Ergebnisse liefern. Die heutige Ankündigung erfolgt unmittelbar vor der Tagung des Europäischen Rates, auf der voraussichtlich erneut bekräftigt wird, dass Forschung und Innovation eine zentrale Rolle beim europäischen wirt-schaftlichen Aufschwung spielen.

Europäische Innovationspartnerschaften sind ein neues Konzept, das im Rah-men der Leitinitiative „Innovationsunion“ der Strategie Europa 2020 eingeführt wurde. Ziel ist es, auf Schwachstellen, Defizite und Hindernisse im europäischen Forschungs- und Innovationssystem abzustellen, die die Entwicklung guter Ideen und ihre Vermarktung verhindern oder verzögern. Dazu gehören unzurei-chende Investitionen, überholte Regelungen, fehlende Normen und fragmentier-te Märkte. Jede Partnerschaft wird von einer Lenkungsgruppe unter dem Vorsitz des Europäischen Kommissars bzw. der Kommissare geleitet, die für den jewei-ligen Politikbereich zuständig sind. Hinzu kommen Vertreter der Mitgliedstaaten (Minister), Abgeordnete, führende Industrievertreter, Forscher, Vertreter der Zivilgesellschaft und andere wichtige Akteure. Im Rahmen von europäischen Innovationspartnerschaften wird aufgezeigt, was getan werden kann, um Hin-dernisse zu überwinden (u. a. Weiterentwicklung von Technologien, Schaffung geeigneter Marktrahmenbedingungen, Ankurbelung der Nachfrage) und um entsprechende Maßnahmen im öffentlichen wie auch im privaten Sektor voran-zubringen. Sie sind kein Ersatz für Förderprogramme oder Regulierungsverfah-ren, sondern bieten eine gemeinsame Plattform für die Zusammenarbeit.

Quelle

→ http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/12/196&format=HTML&aged=0&language=DE&guiLanguage=en


Pressemitteilung „Innovationspartnerschaft zur Überwindung der Rohstoffverknappung in Europa“ → http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/12/144&format=H

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Alter als Chance: Europäische Innovationspartnerschaft einigt sich auf neue Maßnahmen (Pressemitteilung November 2011) → http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1309&format=HTM

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Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Innovation und Kooperation Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Rahmenbedingungen, Innovation, Kooperation Wissenschaft- Wirtschaft

European Commission Enters the Field of Transnational and Demand-Driven Innovation Vouchers

The official launch of the European Creative Industries Alliance on 26-28 Febru-ary 2012 in Milan, Italy, also marked the start of four innovation voucher schemes targeting creative industries or traditional industries to receive support from creative industries.

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Creative industries can positively contribute to innovation and value creation in other industries, but at the same time they often also have own needs and bar-riers to innovate their own business. These two features will be addressed by the four voucher schemes that will develop and test specific innovation voucher schemes, either by stimulating the demand for creative industries services or by addressing the supply side of creative industries by increasing their innovation potential.

For quite some years, innovation vouchers have been a tool for policy makers to support what have often been first innovation activities in SMEs. Across Europe many schemes now support SMEs to explore cooperation possibilities with pub-lic R&D providers. In 2010, the European Commission moderated a conference during which several Member States agreed on the so-called "Riga Declaration" that describes common principles for a better design of innovation voucher pro-grammes to create higher impact for SME innovation. The most important among the principles is the call for equal treatment of public and private, and of local and foreign service providers.

The four ECIA innovation voucher schemes will also add a transnational dimen-sion by opening up the schemes to collaboration between creative industries and business service providers from different countries. The policy aims of ECIA in general, and of the innovation vouchers in particular, are to foster spill-over effects between different industries and to stimulate the demand for creative industries services.

Quelle

→ http://www.europe-innova.eu/web/guest/home/-/journal_content/56/10136/733273

Download

Riga Declaration → http://www.europe-

innova.eu/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=132988&name=DLFE-9801.pdf




Claudia Bernarding, Tel. 0228/3821-1839, [email protected]

Dr. Olaf Heilmayer, Tel. 0228/3821-1443, [email protected]

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin Innovation im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Förderung, Innovation, Kooperation Wissenschaft- Wirtschaft, KMU

Biomass – A Nordic-Baltic Opportunity?

The Baltic Sea region has everything it takes to become a global leader in sus-tainable biomass production and the biomass value-chain. We have a large con-centration of biomass, well-developed infrastructure, technological and environ-mental knowledge and a long tradition for cooperation across the region. We can set ambitious goals! This was the final conclusion of a Nordic-Baltic biomass conference in Copenhagen on 21 March.

The conference, organized by the Nordic Council of Ministers on 20-21 March, highlighted the challenges of securing a sustainable production and use of bio-mass in the development of bioenergy.

A recent report from the Nordic Council of Ministers shows that the changing climate may lay the grounds for surplus bioenergy production in the Nordic-Baltic region, which can then be exported to the rest of Europe.

The conference looked at the possibilities ahead for the production and use of biomass in the Baltic Sea Region in the context of The European Commission's strategy and action plan, “Innovating for Sustainable Growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe”.

“We need to explore how to transform the increased demand on bioenergy into sustainable solutions in the entire value chain from biomass to bioenergy. We want to pool forces and bring together public and private players in closer part-nerships. And at the same time we want to contribute to the overall ambitions in the European Union’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region to promote sustainabili-ty and prosperity”, said Halldór Ásgrímsson, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers in his opening speech.

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He stressed the role of the Nordic Council of Ministers as a network organization and welcomed the fact that the conference included participants from govern-ments, research, business and civil society.

The outcome of the conference is a concrete proposal on establishing a Hori-zontal Action within the European Union’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. Later this year a series of stakeholder workshops on biomass are planned to take place around the Baltic Sea region.

Quelle

→ http://www.norden.org/en/news-and-events/news/biomass-a-nordic-baltic-opportunity



Fachliche Ansprechpartner für Nordische Länder im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Hans-Peter Niller, Tel. 0228/3821-1468, [email protected]

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Internationalisierung im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Umwelt, Internationalisierung

Frankreich

63 Projects Selected for the 13th FUI Call for Projects On 1 March 2012, the results were revealed for the 13th French Single Inter-ministerial Fund (FUI) call for projects dedicated to financing Competitiveness Clusters' R&D joint projects. The government thus is choosing to finance 63 projects to the sound of 58.4 million euros, completed by and additional 41.2 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund.

The government therefore picked out 63 new joint R&D projects for their innova-tive aspect and the economic activity they will eventually generate. These

projects at least associate 2 businesses and a research lab or training body. They must contribute to reinforcing the competitiveness of the French economy and to creating new jobs so that the businesses involved will grow to be leaders in the markets concerned.

The 14th call for projects was opened on 20 March 2012.

Quelle

→ http://spl.cdif.fr/dll2.php?lettre_id=335&envoi_id=341&adresse_id=347


Weitere Informationen zu den Pôles de Compétitivité und aktueller Projektaufruf → http://competitivite.gouv.fr/


Fokus Frankreich → http://www.kooperation-international.de/frankreich

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Frankreich im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Naima Barouk, Tel. 0228/3821-1418, [email protected]

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Cluster im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Förderung, Innovation, Cluster

Auszeichnung von Projekten innovativer Ausbildungsgän-ge im Rahmen des Programms „Zukunftsinvestitionen“

Die Projektausschreibung IDEFI („Initiatives d’excellence en formations innovantes“), deren Durchführung der Agence nationale de la Recherche (A.N.R.) übertragen worden war, erfolgte Anfang November 2011. Mit ihr wurde einem Wunsch von Staatspräsident Nicolas Sarkozy entsprochen, den Schwer-punkt „Forschung“ des Programms „Zukunftsinvestitionen“ durch eine spezifi-sche Aktion zur Förderung der Innovation im Bereich der Ausbildungsgänge im Hochschulsektor zu ergänzen.

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Über die ursprünglich geplanten 20 Projekte hinaus wurden 37 Projektvorschlä-ge für die Dauer von höchstens acht Jahren ausgewählt. Die Projekte werden von Universitäten und staatlichen sowie privaten „Grandes écoles“ getragen.

Die ausgezeichneten Projekte decken folgende Felder hochschulspezifischer Ausbildungen ab:

• Geistes- und Sozialwisssenschaften (12 Projekte)

• Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften (9 Projekte)

• Lebenswissenschaften, Gesundheit, Landwirtschaft, Ökologie (6 Projekte

• Multidisziplinäre Projekte (10 Projekte)

Quelle

→ http://www.kooperation-international.de/index.php?id=16&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=70920


Wissenschaftsportal Französische Botschaft in Deutschland: Ausschreibungsergebnisse im Bereich Forschung und Technologien → http://www.wissenschaft-frankreich.de/de/forschungspolitik-und-

innovation/ausschreibungsergebnisse-im-bereich-forschung-und-technologien







Schlagworte

Bildung, Hochschulen, Fachkräfte

Zwei neue Exzellenzzentren für Onkologie im Rahmen des Programms „Zukunftsinvestitionen“ benannt

Das Projekt PACRI wird zwecks Durchführung gemeinsamer Aktionen mehrere Forschungsinstitute der Ile-de-France zusammenführen. PACRI fasst Grundla-gen-Onkologie, transnationale Onkologie und klinische Onkologie zusammen. Das Projekt wird darüber hinaus eine regionale Politik der Erziehung und Aus-bildung auf dem Gebiet der Krebsbekämpfung über die beteiligten Partner hin-aus ermöglichen.

Das Projekt CAPTOR hat auf dem Standort Toulouse-Oncopole zum Ziel, alle Komponenten der Antitumor-Pharmakologie zu entwickeln; es soll insbesondere durch eine Zweckforschung hohen Niveaus neue Medikamente entwickeln, die-se durch klinische Forschung evaluieren und ihre im Rahmen der „pharmacologie sociale“ in Betracht kommenden Anwendungen untersuchen.

Die beiden ausgewählten Zentralkliniken für Onkologie erhalten je 10 Millionen Euro. Sie sollen landesweit das Entstehen von Exzellenzzentren auf dem Gebiet der Krebsforschung fördern.

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Wissenschaftsportal Französische Botschaft in Deutschland: Ausschreibungsergebnisse im Bereich Forschung und Technologien → http://www.wissenschaft-frankreich.de/de/forschungspolitik-und-

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Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Cluster im VDI Technologiezentrum


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Schlagworte

Lebenswissenschaften, Förderung, Cluster

Forschungsminister Wauquiez stellt französische Raum-fahrtstrategie vor

Der französische Ministerrat hatte vor einem Jahr die Ausarbeitung der jetzt vorliegenden Strategie beschlossen. Sie wurde seither von einer Arbeitsgruppe ausgearbeitet, der neben den von Fragen der Raumfahrtpolitik betroffenen staatlichen Stellen (Umwelt, Transport und Verkehr, Verteidigung, Industrie, Forschung) auch Parlamentarier, Unternehmer, Wissenschaftler und Journalis-ten angehörten.

Die Strategie ermögliche es – so Laurent Wauquiez – die bedeutsamen Ent-scheidungen vorzubereiten, die Frankreich und seine Partner in den nächsten Monaten, insbesondere im ESA-Ministerrat zu treffen hätten.

Die Strategie beruht auf vier Leitlinien (Rolle eines „Antriebsmotors“ in der euro-päischen Weltraumpolitik, technologische Unabhängigkeit Europas hinsichtlich des Zugangs zum Weltraum, Entwicklung von Anwendungen und Dienstleistun-gen mit hohem Mehrwert, harmonisierte europäische Industriepolitik) und leitet daraus sieben Handlungsfelder ab:

• Ausbildung, Wissenschaftskultur und Kommunikation

• Wissenschaftliche und technologische Forschung

• Zugang zum Weltraum

• Telekommunikation und Navigation

• Erdbeobachtung

• Sicherheit und Verteidigung

• Erkundung des Weltraums

Quelle


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Stratégie spatiale française (in französischer Sprache) → http://media.enseignementsup-

recherche.gouv.fr/file/Politique_spatiale_francaise/09/8/Strategie_spatiale_francaise-mars-BD_211098.pdf


Webseite der Europäischen Kommission: Politikbereich Raumfahrt → http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/space/index_de.htm Gemeinsame Erklärung zum Thema Raumfahrt anlässlich des Deutsch-Französischen Ministerrats vom 6. Februar 2012 (PDF-Dokument) → http://www.botschaft-frankreich.de/IMG/pdf/declaration_DE_entete_120206.pdf







Schlagworte

Schlüsseltechnologien, Raumfahrt, FuE-Infrastruktur, Innovation, Wirtschaft und Märkte

Großbritannien

Report Calls for Universities to Be at Heart of Economy

A report published today calls for universities to be at the heart of the economy to promote growth in the UK and improve the employability of our graduates.

The former vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire and HEFCE board member Professor Sir Tim Wilson was asked by the Government to undertake a review into how universities work with business to ensure graduate skills and



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employability meet the needs of business, and to maximise the university sec-tor’s capabilities in business-led research and innovation.

His report makes a series of recommendations for universities, business and the Government. The report’s recommendations aim to:

• Produce graduates with knowledge and skills – specialist and generic – relevant to their future careers, and provide opportunities for students to in-tegrate work and enterprise experience and study.

• Ensure there is a constant interchange of research, ideas and people be-tween academe and business to sustain world class research within our universities.

• Embed a culture of pursuing the application of university based research excellence, optimising the use of government support in research, innova-tion and development.

• Create economic growth through partnership with Local Enterprise Partner-ships and government agencies, leveraging each university’s capabilities to support UK companies and to attract inward investment.

• Build collaboration between universities, businesses and government agen-cies to identify areas of future knowledge and capability creation and identi-fy where partners’ research investment should be made.

Quelle

→ http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=423474&NewsAreaID=2

Download

A Review of Business–University Collaboration

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Fokus Großbritannien → http://www.kooperation-international.de/grossbritannien

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Großbritannien im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Ursula Henze-Schulte, Tel. 0228/3821-1808, [email protected]

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Kooperation Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Hochschulen, Kooperation Wissenschaft- Wirtschaft

Nesta Becomes an Independent Charity

On 1 April, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) became an independent charity, after it was abolished as a non-departmental public body.

The new charity, to be known as Nesta, will continue to support innovation through a combination of practical programmes, investing in start-up innovative companies, and carrying out research into innovation.

The National Lottery endowment has been transferred to a separate Trust which will be used to support innovative activities in line with the Trust’s charitable objectives. Nesta will be the sole trustee of the NESTA Trust.

This marks the completion of a process which started with the Government’s announcement in October 2010 as part of the public bodies reform programme.

Quelle

→ http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=424009&NewsAreaID=2







Schlagworte

Rahmenbedingungen, Förderung

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UK Biobank Opens for Research

An incredible snapshot of the health and lifestyles of 500,000 Britons – including 26,000 people with diabetes and 50,000 with joint disorders, 41,000 teetotallers, and 11,000 heart attack patients – is now available for medical research.

Importantly, this information will grow as the participants’ stored samples are analysed and their health is followed over many years, building a key resource for research into a wide range of illnesses that cause pain, disability and prema-ture death.

UK Biobank will gain in value for health research, as:

• Results of tests on donated blood, urine and saliva samples, including ge-netic tests, are included in the resource;

• Changes in participants’ health are recorded via electronic records (eg gen-eral practice, hospital statistics, cancer and death registers);

• Results from studies using UK Biobank are put back into the resource for other researchers to use;

• Additional or more detailed information about the participants is added (eg physical activity, diet, work and residential questionnaires and possibly, body scanning), and repeat measurements are undertaken.

UK Biobank is funded by the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, De-partment of Health, Scottish Government, Welsh Government and the British Heart Foundation.

Quelle

→ http:// www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/2012/03/uk-biobank-opens-for-research/


Britain's Biobank Is Open for Business → http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/britains-biobank-is-open-for-

bus.html





Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für FuE-Infrastruktur im VDI Technologiezentrum

Dr. Raimund Glitz, Tel. 0211/6214-546, [email protected]

Schlagworte

Lebenswissenschaften, FuE-Infrastruktur

Japan

Teilchenbeschleuniger mit 40fach höherer Leistung

Das Forschungszentrum KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) in Tsukuba in der Präfektur Ibaraki hat die Baupläne für seinen neuen Teilchen-beschleuniger „Super KEKB“ veröffentlicht, der voraussichtlich im Fiskaljahr 2014 in Betrieb gehen wird.

Bei dem Projekt handelt es sich um die Modernisierung des bereits existieren-den und weltweit leistungsfähigsten Teilchenbeschleunigers „KEKB“, in dem man Elektronen mit Positronen kollidieren lässt. Durch die Modernisierung wird eine 40fach höhere Leistung als bisher erzielt.

Quelle

→ http://www.jsps-bonn.de/index.php?id=1450


KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) → http://legacy.kek.jp/intra-e/index.html


Fokus Japan → http://www.kooperation-international.de/japan

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Japan im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Hans-Jörg Stähle, Tel. 0228/3821-1403, [email protected]



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Schlüsseltechnologien, FuE-Infrastruktur

Kanada

Government of Canada Commits New Funding to Support Advanced Research Infrastructure at Canadian Universi-ties and Colleges

As part of its investment in science, technology and innovation, the Government of Canada allocated $ 500 million to the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) in Budget 2012. Starting in 2014-15, this funding will support investments in leading-edge research infrastruc-ture, including the College-Industry Innovation Fund.

This new funding is designed to sus-tain the CFI’s investments in ad-vanced research infrastructure and support the Foundation’s core activi-ties. The CFI will work with all its stakeholders to ensure that their needs are addressed.

Quelle

→ http://www.innovation.ca/en/Media/News10


Fokus Kanada → http://www.kooperation-international.de/kanada

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Kanada im Internationalen Büro


Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für FuE-Förderung im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Hochschulen, Förderung, FuE-Infrastruktur

CIHR and NSERC Are Pleased to Announce the 2012 Launch of the Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) Program

The Collaborative Health Research Projects (CHRP) program is a joint initiative between the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The CHRP program sup-ports innovative interdisciplinary collaborative research projects requiring partici-pation from the natural sciences or engineering community together with the health sciences community. Proposed research projects must have a strong focus on knowledge translation (KT), and lead to health and economic benefits for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and/or a strength-ened health care system. All applicant teams are required to engage and col-laborate with a knowledge/technology user organization that could benefit from the research results. Funding for CHRP projects can be for up to three years for defined projects with clear milestones and decision points.

In the context of improved health for Canadians, the following are the objectives of the CHRP Program:

• Translate research results to knowledge/technology users and other stake-holders;

• Encourage the natural sciences or engineering and health research com-munities to collaborate and integrate their expertise;

• Advance interdisciplinary research leading to knowledge and technologies with the potential to benefit Canada by improving the Canadian healthcare system and/or services and where appropriate lead to economic opportuni-ties in Canada; and

The Canada Foundation for Innovation gives researchers the tools they need to think big and innovate. By investing in state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in Canada’s universi-ties, colleges, research hospitals and non-profit research institutions, the CFI is helping to attract and retain the world’s top talent, to train the next generation of researchers, to support private-sector innovation and to create high-quality jobs that strengthen the economy and improve the quality of life for all Canadians.

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• Train highly qualified personnel in collaborative and interdisciplinary re-search of relevance to health, while preparing them for employment oppor-tunities in the private, public or not for profit sectors.

Projects are for up to three years funding, with no maximum amount. The total amount available for this funding opportunity is $ 22.1 million over three years.

Of this $ 22.1 million:

• $ 20.4 million is available to fund applications within the general pool.

• $ 500,000 is available to fund applications relevant to personalized cancer medicine through the CIHR Institute of Cancer Research.

• $ 900,000 is available to fund applications relevant to the CIHR Institute of Genetics in the area of Invention - Tools, Techniques and Devices.

• $ 300,000 is available to fund applications relevant to the area of Muscu-loskeletal Health, Arthritis, Skin and Oral Health through the CIHR Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis.

Quelle

→ http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/44865.html







Schlagworte

Lebenswissenschaften, Förderung

Government of Canada’s New Knowledge Synthesis Grants Will Identify Best Practices in Innovation Policy

In collaboration with Industry Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Re-search Council (SSHRC) has awarded 14 Knowledge Synthesis Grants to top researchers at universities across Canada. With their focus on public invest-ments in higher education research and development (R&D), the 14 funded pro-jects will help stimulate innovation and economic growth for the benefit of Can-ada.

Supporting SSHRC’s priority area of Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity, the goal of the grants is to synthesize new and existing academic knowledge and to identify gaps in our current understanding of what stimulates innovation and economic growth. Valued at a total of $ 327,109, the grants will enable experts to identify international best practices on using public investments to stimulate innovation, and to engage with policy-makers on their research questions and findings. Recognizing the potential of this undertaking to inform future Canadian science and innovation policy, Industry Canada has partnered with SSHRC on this important knowledge synthesis project.

Adam Holbrook, professor and associate director of the Centre for Policy Re-search on Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University, and Catherine Beaudry, associate professor in the Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal, serve as co-scientific directors of this knowledge synthesis project. The 14 grant recipients will submit final re-ports to SSHRC in May 2012, after which a summary of the findings will be made publicly available.

Quelle

→ http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/news_room-salle_de_presse/latest_news-nouvelles_recentes/herd-march-mars-2012-eng.aspx



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Schlagworte

Förderung, Innovation

USA

Less Paperwork, More Research: Improving Federal Grant Policies

As home to some of the Nation’s best research teams and laboratories, colleges and universities are critical players in the Obama Administration’s strategy for boosting domestic innovation and global competitiveness through cutting-edge research as well as through their role in training the American workforce of to-morrow. But achieving scientific and technological advancement is difficult when university administrators and faculty members are bogged down with bureau-cratic responsibilities rather than focusing on the grand challenges ahead—or when research institute budgets are squandered on wasteful compliance with outdated or unjustified Federal requirements.

The Obama Administration recognizes the importance of enhancing the effec-tiveness of Federal investments in research while maintaining responsible ste-wardship of Federal grant dollars. Guided by these twin imperatives, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), OSTP, and Federal grant-making agencies have teamed up to carry out a comprehensive review of grant policies, with an eye to identifying reforms that can reduce administrative and compliance bur-dens without compromising stewardship. As part of this effort over the past year, OMB and OSTP have reached out to university officials, researchers, and other stakeholders with the goal of examining the relevant OMB guidance documents (“circulars”) and proposing revised grant-making and grant oversight guidance.

Building on this effort, OMB last October created the Council on Financial Assis-tance Reform, charged with identifying potential improvements to grant adminis-tration policies and processes. The Council recently summarized the insights derived from the processes noted above and worked with others at OMB and OSTP to craft an Advance Notice of Proposed Guidance posted on 28 February in the Federal Register. The Notice describes a number of proposed changes to single audit and cost principles for grants and cooperative agreements, and pro-vides an opportunity for public comment through 29 March 2012.

Quelle

→ http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/13/less-paperwork-more-research-improving-federal-grant-policies

Download

Advance Notice of Proposed Guidance → http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-02-28/pdf/2012-4521.pdf


Fokus USA → http://www.kooperation-international.de/usa





Schlagworte

Förderung, Innovation

Electric Vehicle Grand Challenge Targets Technology and Cost Breakthroughs

President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the launch of EV Everywhere, an electric vehicle Grand Challenge that seeks to make electric vehicles as affordable and convenient to own and drive as today’s gasoline-powered vehicles within a decade.



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This is the second in a series of Clean Energy Grand Challenges to be an-nounced by the Department of Energy (DOE). The first in the series, already underway, is the $ 1/watt SunShot Grand Challenge, which seeks to make solar power directly cost-competitive with electricity from fossil fuels by 2020.

Over the next few months, the Department of Energy will announce a series of additional Grand Challenges. These are designed to identify the most pressing energy technology challenges of our time and bring together America’s best and brightest scientists, engineers, and businesses to work collaboratively to solve them.

Grand Challenges – ambitious but achievable goals that capture our imagination and inspire breakthroughs in science and technology – are an important element of the President’s Strategy for American Innovation. When defined with sufficient specificity to convey what success looks like, yet in terms broad enough to allow the integration of novel solution strategies, grand challenges can spur significant developments in a wide range of domains such as health, energy, sustainability, education, or economic opportunity

Quelle

→ http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/07/electric-vehicle-grand-challenge-targets-technology-and-cost-breakthroughs

Download

Fact Sheet: All-of-the-Above Approach to American Energy → http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/07/fact-sheet-all-above-

approach-american-energy


Strategy for American Innovation → http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/nec/StrategyforAmericanInnovation






Dr. Silke Stahl-Rolf. Tel. 0211/6214-632, [email protected]

Schlagworte

Mobilität, Förderung, Innovation

Big Data Is a Big Deal

On 29 March 2012, the Obama Administration is announcing the “Big Data Re-search and Development Initiative.” By improving our ability to extract know-ledge and insights from large and complex collections of digital data, the initia-tive promises to help accelerate the pace of discovery in science and engineer-ing, strengthen our national security, and transform teaching and learning.

To launch the initiative, six Federal departments and agencies will announce more than $ 200 million in new commitments that, together, promise to greatly improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize, and glean disco-veries from huge volumes of digital data. Learn more about ongoing Federal government programs that address the challenges of, and tap the opportunities afforded by, the big data revolution in our Big Data Fact Sheet.

The Obama administration wants to challenge industry, research universities, and non-profits to join with the Administration to make the most of the opportuni-ties created by Big Data. Clearly, the government can’t do this on its own. The US need what the President calls an “all hands on deck” effort.

Some companies are already sponsoring Big Data-related competitions, and providing funding for university research. Universities are beginning to create new courses—and entire courses of study—to prepare the next generation of “data scientists.” Organizations like Data Without Borders are helping non-profits by providing pro bono data collection, analysis, and visualization. OSTP would be very interested in supporting the creation of a forum to highlight new public-private partnerships related to Big Data.

Quelle

→ http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/29/big-data-big-deal

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Schlagworte

Schlüsseltechnologien, Förderung, FuE-Infrastruktur

Fermilab Told to Rein in Planned Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

Physicists in the US working on a major new experiment to study the properties of neutrinos have suffered a major setback with the announcement that the US Department of Energy (DOE) will not fund their current plan. Known as the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE), it would involve creating a beam of neu-trinos at Fermilab and detecting them 1300 km away in a new detector to be built deep underground in South Dakota’s Homestake mine.

But writing to Fermilab director Pier Oddone, William Brinkman, director of the DOE's Office of Science, says that the DOE “cannot support the LBNE project as it is currently configured”. Brinkman now suggests that, instead of building the LBNE all at once, Fermilab should take “an affordable and phased approach that will enable important science results at each phase”.

Quelle

→ http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/mar/26/fermilab-told-to-reign-in-planned-neutrino-experiment


DOE Scraps Plans for Neutrino Experiment in Mine → http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/doe-scraps-plans-for-

neutrino.html







Schlagworte

Förderung, FuE-Infrastruktur

Neue Max-Planck-Princeton-Partnerschaft in der Fusions-forschung

Partner des neuen Centers sind auf dem Gebiet der Fusionsforschung das Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching und Greifswald (IPP) und das Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). Auf dem Gebiet der astrophysika-lischen Plasmen sind außerdem die MPI für Sonnensystemforschung (Katlenburg-Lindau) und Astrophysik (Garching) sowie die Fakultät für Astrophy-sik der Princeton University beteiligt. Ziel der Zusammenarbeit ist es, die Syner-gien zwischen der Fusionsforschung und den Astrophysikern stärker zu nutzen; viele Methoden, die in der Fusionsforschung entwickelt wurden, sind auch für die Astrophysik anwendbar. Gleichzeitig sollen gemeinsame Erkenntnisse zu Fusions- und astrophysikalischen Plasmen in die Weiterentwicklung der theore-tischen Modelle einfließen und so die Erforschung der Fusionskraft als praktisch nutzbare Energiequelle vorantreiben.

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pagne an der jeweils anderen Einrichtung mitarbeiten oder gemeinsam Compu-terprogramme entwickeln.

Das neue Center ist eines von zehn Max-Planck-Centern, die momentan an neun Standorten weltweit aufgebaut werden.

Quelle

→ http://www.mpg.de/5562335/Max_Planck_Princeton_Partnerschaft_Fusionsforschung


Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching und Greifswald → http://www.ipp.mpg.de Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory → http://www.pppl.gov







Schlagworte

Energie, FuE-Infrastruktur

Energy Department Announces up to $ 15 Million to Re-search Biomass-Based Supplements for Traditional Fuels

As part of President Obama’s blueprint for an economy fueled by homegrown and alternative energy sources, the Energy Department announced on 6 April up to $ 15 million available to demonstrate biomass-based oil supplements that can be blended with petroleum, helping the U.S. to reduce foreign oil use, diver-sify the nation’s energy portfolio, and create jobs for American workers. Known as “bio-oils,” these precursors for fully renewable transportation fuels could be integrated into the oil refining processes that make conventional gasoline, diesel

and jet fuels without requiring modifications to existing fuel distribution networks or engines.

“The Energy Department’s investments to develop renewable transportation fuels are a key part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strat-egy to develop America’s domestic energy resources and reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “Driving innova-tion through targeted investments helps to speed development of next-generation biofuels made in America, biofuels that will help to protect American families and businesses from the ups and downs of the global oil market.”

The Department expects to fully fund between five to ten projects in fiscal year 2012 to produce bio-oil prototypes that can be tested in oil refineries and used to develop comprehensive technical and economic analyses of how bio-oils could work. The proto-type bio-oils will be produced from a range of feedstocks that could include algae, corn and wheat stovers, dedicated energy crops or wood residues. Domestic industry, universities and laboratories are all eligible to ap-ply.

The results of the projects will inform future efforts directed at advancing bio-oil technologies and bringing these renewable fuels to market.

Quelle

→ http://energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-15-million-research-biomass-based-supplements-traditional-fuels







Schlagworte

Energie, Förderung

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Obama Administration Announces $ 14.2 Million in New Funding to Develop Lightweight Materials for Advanced Vehicles

On 22 March, as President Obama went to Ohio State University to discuss the all-out, all-of-the-above strategy for American energy, the White House an-nounced a new $ 14.2 million effort at the Department of Energy to accelerate the development and deployment of stronger and lighter materials for advanced vehicles that will help reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, save drivers money, and limit carbon pollution. This funding will support the development of high-strength, lightweight carbon fiber composites and advanced steels and alloys that will help vehicle manufacturers improve the fuel economy of cars and trucks while maintaining and improving safety and performance.

Replacing cast iron and traditional steel components with lightweight materials – including advanced high-strength steel, magnesium, aluminum, and polymer composites - allows manufacturers to include additional safety devices, inte-grated electronic systems and emissions control equipment on vehicles without increasing their weight. Using lighter materials also reduces a vehicle’s fuel con-sumption. For example, reducing a vehicle’s weight by 10 % can improve the fuel economy by 6 to 8 %.

The Energy Department intends to fund projects across three major areas of materials research and development, including developing modeling tools to deliver higher performing carbon fiber composites and advanced steels, as well as researching new lightweight, high-strength alloys for energy-efficient vehicle and truck engines.

The specific research areas include:

• Predictive modeling of carbon fiber composites: Carbon fiber composites are capable of reducing vehicle component weight by up to 50 % over con-ventional automotive steel structures. Projects selected in this area will vali-date modeling tools to optimize the performance and cost-effectiveness of carbon fiber composite materials for vehicle body, chassis, and interior uses.

• Predictive modeling of advanced steels: Advanced high strength steels are capable of reducing vehicle component weight by more than 25 %. Projects selected in this area will develop modeling tools to optimize the perform-ance and cost-effectiveness of third-generation high strength steels for the vehicle body and chassis.

• Advanced alloy development for automotive and heavy-duty engines: As manufacturers continue to push the limits of engine efficiency, cast engine components must be strong enough to withstand higher cylinder pressures. Projects selected in this area will develop low-cost, high-strength alloys for automotive and heavy duty engine blocks and cylinder heads.

The Energy Department will make up to $ 8.2 million available in fiscal year 2012 for selection under this funding opportunity announcement, and subject to congressional appropriations, the Department plans to make an additional $6 million available in fiscal year 2013 to fully fund these advanced materials pro-jects, which will take 2-4 years to complete.

Quelle

→ http://energy.gov/articles/obama-administration-announces-142-million-new-funding-develop-lightweight-materials







Schlagworte

Schlüsseltechnologien, Mobilität, Förderung

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Secretary Chu Announces New Institute to Help Scientists Improve Massive Data Set Research on DOE Supercom-puters

Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced $ 5 million to establish the Scalable Data Management, Analysis and Visualization (SDAV) Institute as part of the Obama Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative,” which was announced on 29 March and takes aim at improving the nation’s abil-ity to extract knowledge and insights from large and complex collections of digi-tal data. Led by the Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Labora-tory, the SDAV Institute will bring together the expertise of six national laborato-ries and seven universities to develop new tools to help scientists manage and visualize data on the Department’s supercomputers, which will further streamline the processes that lead to discoveries made by scientists using the Depart-ment’s research facilities.

The SDAV Institute will help scientists better extract insights from today’s in-creasingly massive research datasets by assisting researchers in using state-of-the art software tools for data analysis on these supercomputers – ranging from superfast search engines to sophisticated visualization software that enables researchers to literally picture and “see” complex relations among data points. The Energy Department supports some of the world’s fastest supercomputers located at Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, which are used by scientists from a wide range of fields. Simulations running on the Department’s supercomputers have increased in size and complexity over time.

In addition to Berkeley Lab, the SDAV team includes experts from Argonne, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge and Sandia National Laboratories as well as from the Georgia Institute of Technology, North Carolina State Uni-versity, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Rutgers University, the University of California at Davis and the University of Utah. Kitware, a company that develops and supports specialized visualization software, is also a partner in the project and will accelerate deployment of the technologies that the Insti-

tute develops into the private sector. Subject to congressional appropriations, the Department plans to make an additional $ 20 million available over the next four years to fully fund the Institute.

As part of the Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative,” six Federal departments and agencies today announced more than $ 200 million in new commitments that, together, promise to greatly improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize, and glean discoveries from huge vol-umes of digital data.

Quelle

→ http://energy.gov/articles/secretary-chu-announces-new-institute-help-scientists-improve-massive-data-set-research-doe







Schlagworte

Schlüsseltechnologien, Förderung

Ägypten

Egypt Sets a New Course for Its Scientific Efforts

A year after the revolution, Egypt is drawing up a new strategy for promoting scientific research, aiming to harness the knowledge of its scientific diaspora, ease the commercialisation of research results, and protect technology imported from abroad.

The science ministry is consulting on the strategy with researchers both within and outside Egypt, and with a number of developed and developing countries,

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science minister Nadia Zakhari said at a press conference on 5 February: “The new strategy will stress the need for marketing scientific research, and transfer its findings to final products, [in a way to support] the comprehensive and sus-tainable development in Egypt,“ said Zakhari.

She told SciDev.Net that the new strategy, expected to be finished in three months, will be expressed in a law and will work to solve the “chronic problems afflicting Egypt, especially the issues of food, energy, health and education.” Zakhari added the new law would be presented to parliament “within six months at most.”

Maged El-Sherbiny, president of the Academy of Scientific Research and Tech-nology (ASRT), which is the national umbrella for planning scientific research in Egypt, told SciDev.Net that the law will support links with the private sector by allowing research centres and universities to establish private companies to translate research findings into products. “These companies will facilitate the commercialisation of patents to secure funds and profits that will boost scientific research, and the development of the economy,” he said.

El-Sherbiny said the new law is also expected to cover the protection of intellec-tual property on technology transferred into the country. “Our intellectual prop-erty laws are fragile and don’t provide newly transferred technologies with ade-quate protection against imitation,” he said.

Galal Nawwar, head of the chemical industries division at the National Research Centre, said the new law “has to protect the rights” of Egyptian as well as foreign scientists wishing to commercialise their research. Zakhari said that the in-volvement of Egyptian scientists, both at home and abroad, in drafting the strat-egy has been an important area of cooperation between researchers and poli-cymakers.

ASRT is also developing a more efficient way to implement the Transfer of Knowledge Through Expatriate Nationals programme, launched in 2006 to re-verse Egypt’s brain drain and engage its expatriate scientists. Mahmoud M. Sakr, vice president of ASRT, said they were seeking grants to support this pro-gramme and would work with cultural consultants in embassies to reach out to Egyptian researchers abroad.

Quelle

→ http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/science-in-the-islamic-world/news/egypt-sets-a-new-course-for-its-scientific-efforts-1.html

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→ http://www.scidev.net/en/middle-east-and-north-africa/


Fokus Ägypten http://www.kooperation-international.de/aegypten

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Ägypten im Internationalen Büro

Susanne Ruppert-Elias, Tel. 0228/3821-1487, [email protected]

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Kooperation Wissenschaft- Wirtschaft im VDI Technologiezentrum


Schlagworte

Förderung, Rahmenbedingungen, Kooperation Wissenschaft- Wirtschaft

Algerien

Northern Node of Pan-African University Launched in Al-geria

The northern node of the Pan African University (PAU) was formally launched at a meeting in the Algerian capital earlier this month (18 March). The Algerian campus is the fourth of five being set up around the continent by the African Union (AU), to improve the quality of postgraduate science education and re-search and boost regional economic productivity.

Each of the five ‘node’ campuses – in east, west, central, north and southern Africa – will have a different area of specialisation. Water, energy sciences, and climate change will be the focus of research at the northern node. Earth and life

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sciences is being hosted at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, while the sciences, technology and innovation campus is at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture in Kenya. In central Africa, Cameroon's University of Yaounde 2 will host governance, humanities and social sciences. The space sciences cam-pus will be based in southern Africa.

Quelle

→ http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/university-systems/news/northern-node-of-pan-african-university-launched-in-algeria.html


Wikipedia: Pan-African University → http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-African_University


Fokus Ägypten → http://www.kooperation-international.de/algerien

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Maghreb im Internationalen Büro

Ralf Hanatschek, Tel. 0228/3821-1482, [email protected]



Schlagworte

Bildung, Hochschulen, FuE-Infrastruktur

Australien

Agreement Secures Future of the Australian Synchrotron

The future of one of the nation's landmark research facilities – the Australian Synchrotron – has been secured under a $ 100 million agreement between the Australian and Victorian Governments. Minister for Science and Research, Sen-ator Chris Evans, visited the Synchrotron to announce $ 69 million to be pro-vided by the Australian Government to secure the operation of the Synchrotron over the next four years, with an additional $ 26 million from the Victorian Gov-

ernment. The Australian Synchrotron hosts more than 3,000 researchers each year and conducts about 500 experiments each year.

New Zealand has given an in-principle commitment to contribute to the opera-tional funding of the Synchrotron over the next four years period.

Quelle

→ http://minister.innovation.gov.au/chrisevans/MediaReleases/Pages/AgreementsecuresfutureoftheAustralianSynchrotron.aspx


Australian Synchrotron Sails Into Calmer Waters → http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/australian-synchrotron-sails-

int.html


Fokus Australien → http://www.kooperation-international.de/australien

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Australien im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Hans-Jörg Stähle, Tel. 0228/3821-1403, [email protected]



Schlagworte

FuE-Infrastruktur

Brasilien

Brazil Hosts Latin America Open Educational Resources Regional Forum

The Latin America Open Educational Resources (OER) Regional Policy Forum was co-organized by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 28 to 29 March 2012. It provided unique regional inputs to the draft Paris OER Declaration to be submitted to the World OER Congress, which will take place in Paris, France, in June 2012. The Forum was held at the

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modern city campus of the Universidade Gamo Filho and attended by more than 80 participants including government representatives, civil society, academia, media and students.

There were seven governments represented at the Forum: Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Paraguay and Uruguay. In addition to many speakers from Latin America there were presentations from South Africa and the United States of America.

The objective of the Forum was to gather the unique Latin American contribu-tions to the draft OER Declaration that will be presented at the 2012 World OER Congress in Paris, France, from 20 to 22 June. The Declaration calls on gov-ernments to support the sustainable development and dynamic use of OERs to achieve educational goals.

The Latin America OER Forum was the third in a series of worldwide regional consultations leading up to the World OER Congress in June. The next Forums are:

• Europe and North America: 17 April 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom;

• Asia Pacific: 23-24 April 2012, Bangkok, Thailand;

• Arab States: 7-8 May 2012, Muscat, Oman.

Quelle

→ http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/brazil_hosts_latin_america_open_educational_resources_regional_forum


2012 World OER Congress → http://www.unesco.org/oercongress


Africa Open Educational Resources Forum ended in Pretoria → http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-

view/news/africa_open_educational_resources_forum_ended_in_pretoria/


Fokus Brasilien → http://www.kooperation-international.de/brasilien

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Brasilien im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Matthias Frattini, Tel. 0228/3821-1434, [email protected]



Schlagworte

Bildung

Brazil’s Biofuel Sector: What Future?

For many years Brazil was the world’s largest biofuel producer, until it was over-taken by the US in 2006. Brazil’s biofuel production reached 28.5 billion litres in 2010, which according to International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates is 27 % of world biofuel production. For 2011, however, IEA estimates show a drop of more than 4 billion litres in Brazilian biofuel production compared with the previous year. But there is good reason to believe that this drop will prove temporary.

Quelle

→ http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3748


Policies and institutional and legal frameworks in the expansion of Brazilian biofuels → http://www.cifor.org/nc/online-library/browse/view-publication/publication/3509.html


Fokus Brasilien → http://www.kooperation-international.de/brasilien

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Brasilien im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Matthias Frattini, Tel. 0228/3821-1434, [email protected]

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Schlagworte

Energie, Umwelt, Wirtschaft und Märkte

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China

Chinese Universities Send Big Signals to Foreigners

Individual Chinese universities have been increasingly recruiting Western aca-demics in recent years, but the Chinese government is also enticing foreigners with a new program that offers a range of incentives. Late last year, the Chinese government started the Thousand Foreign Experts program, which is designed to attract up to 1,000 foreign academics and entrepreneurs over the next 10 years to help improve research and innovation.

It has already attracted more than 200 applicants from countries like the United States, Japan and Germany, according to a report in February by Xinhua, China’s official news agency. The program is an extension of the Thousand Tal-ent program, which started in 2008 as a way to attract experts, academics and entrepreneurs to China.

Quelle

→ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/world/asia/12iht-educlede12.html?pagewanted=all


Fokus China → http://www.kooperation-international.de/china

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für China im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Frank Stiller (Forschung), Tel. 0228/3821-1408, [email protected] Dr. Xiaomeng Shen (Bildung) Tel. 0228/3821-1419, [email protected]



Schlagworte

Bildung, Hochschulen, Fachkräfte, Internationalisierung

Another Bumper Year for Chinese Science

In a draft budget released on 5 March 2012 at the opening session of the annual National People's Congress, China has earmarked RMB 32.45 billion ($ 5.14 billion) for basic research in 2012—up 26 % from last year's appropriation. Overall, central government spending on science and technology is slated to rise 12.4 %, to RMB 228.54 billion ($ 36.23 billion). Scientists will also benefit from a 24 % jump in funding for Project 985 and Project 211, which funnel money to elite universities.

The cash infusion for basic research will be divided among the National Natural Science Foundation of China, scores of “key” state laboratories, and select insti-tutes. With land reform at the top of the political agenda this year, agricultural research got a call out in Wen’s Speech at the annual National People’s Con-gress. A whopping 53 % boost in spending on agricultural S&T will mean RMB 10.1 billion ($ 1.60 billion) for targets such as high-yield crops, controlling animal-borne epidemics, and improving drought management.

Quelle

→ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6073/1156.summary


Fokus China → http://www.kooperation-international.de/china

Fachliche Ansprechpartner für China im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Frank Stiller (Forschung), Tel. 0228/3821-1408, [email protected] Dr. Xiaomeng Shen (Bildung) Tel. 0228/3821-1419, [email protected]

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FuE-Budgets

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Finnland

Academy Invested 341 Million Euros in Research in 2011

In 2011, the total value of Academy funding decisions came to 341 million euros, up 17 million euros from the year before. The Academy received 3,409 applica-tions compared to 4,017 in 2010. The difference was due to changes in the Academy’s funding schemes. The number of applications funded was 1,374, which meant that the competition for funding was extremely intense. For exam-ple, 19 % of all applications received for Academy Project funding were ap-proved, and funds awarded amounted to 17 % of the total value of applications. Similarly, the success rate for Academy Research Fellow applicants was 15 %.

Academy Projects accounted for 33 % of the funding granted. Centres of Excel-lence in research accounted for 13 %, research programmes for 6 % and Acad-emy Professors and Academy Research Fellows for 9 % of total funding. Acad-emy fulfilled international cooperation activities with 27 million euros in 2011. Researchers working at universities received 82 % of all Academy funding; the largest share went to researchers at the University of Helsinki. All applications submitted to the Academy undergo rigorous international peer review. For in-stance, in Academy Project applications, foreign experts made up 97 % of the review panels.

Out of the four research councils of the Academy, the largest number of applica-tions was received by the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineer-ing, which also accounted for the largest proportion of Academy funding.

Quelle

→ http://www.aka.fi/sv/A/Finlands-Akademi/Press-och-media/Newsletter/Academy-of-Finland-Newsletter-March-2012/?mode=&SelectedEditPanelTab=1#invest


Fokus Finnland → http://www.kooperation-international.de/finnland

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Finnland im Internationalen Büro




Schlagworte

Förderung

Finnish Researchers Successful in Latest ERC Grant Round

The latest round of ERC Advanced Grants from the European Research Council saw three Finnish grant winners: Academy Professor Olli Ikkala from Aalto Uni-versity, Professor Heli Jantunen from the University of Oulu and Professor Ilpo Vattulainen from Tampere University of Technology. In addition, Researcher Svetlana Berdyugine received funding for a research project to be carried out in Germany. Ikkala received funding for his research on biomimetic nanomaterials, Jantunen for her research on the development of novel electronics materials and Vattulainen for his research on utilising computational biophysics to explore pro-tein-lipid interactions.

ERC Advanced Grant funding targets researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders. The funding amounts to some 2.5 million euros per grant and is awarded for up to five years. The success rate in the fourth Europe-wide competition for ERC Advanced Grants remained sta-ble at 13 %. In total, the ERC granted funding to 294 top senior researchers. Finnish universities and research institutes submitted 71 proposals in response to the call.

Before this latest grant round, in 2007–2011, ERC funding has been awarded to 43 projects originating in Finland. In addition, Finland has received one Proof of Concept grant. All Finnish ERC grant recipients have previously received com-petitive research funding from the Academy of Finland.

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Schlagworte

Förderung

Researchers Draw up Scientific Resilience Test for Finland’s Economy

An international team of researchers has devised a set of seven different instru-ments for collecting insights about the Finnish economy’s resilience against various shock scenarios. Their project, entitled “7 Shocks and Finland”, exam-ined resilience requirements from the perspective of policy-makers, and aimed to define concrete actions for improving national resilience. The project was undertaken by researchers at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The Academy of Finland is the Finnish member organisation of IIASA.

“The global economy is increasingly volatile, but a small national economy such as Finland stands a good chance of coping amid growing uncertainty. Though it’s not just about surviving – a country that is agile and quick to react can also make the most of the possibilities created by uncertainties,” says Professor John Casti, one of the researchers on the team.

The project openly questions traditional thoughts on efficiency. As uncertainties grow, the researchers say, a small, open national economy should incorporate resilience agility as one of its decision-making criteria. It is also important to en-sure that trade policies focus on diversifying both the export countries and the structure of exported products. When changes in the global system cause ex-ports to fall in one sector, another may benefit from the changes. The project

showed that sectors relying on a few large companies or units are vulnerable, because they are too rigid in a changing global system. A more resilient struc-ture is an ecosystem of small and medium-sized units that are agile and quick to adapt. One of the proposed shock scenarios presented in the project involves Nokia leaving Finland.

Besides the Academy of Finland, the project involved a number of Finnish minis-tries, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Tekes – the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, the National Emergency Supply Agency, Teollisuu-den Voima, Fortum and Tieto.

Quelle

→ http://www.aka.fi/sv/A/Finlands-Akademi/Press-och-media/Newsletter/Academy-of-Finland-Newsletter-March-2012/?mode=&SelectedEditPanelTab=1#economy





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Wirtschaft und Märkte

Indien

India Joins European Neutron Facility in Grenoble

India has become the first non-European country to join the international neutron research facility at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France, operator of one of the most intense neutron sources in the world. With a budget of 80 million euros, it hosts researchers from over 40 countries conducting re-search into condensed matter physics, chemistry, biology, nuclear physics, and materials science.




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This “exciting new collaboration,” says Ratan K. Sinha, nuclear engineer and director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, “will help bridge the gap” between less powerful Indian facilities and the goals of Indian scientists who are eager to carry out experiments with higher intensity beams.

Quelle

→ http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/03/india-joins-european-neutron.html


Institut Laue-Langevin → http://www.ill.eu Bhabha Atomic Research Centre → http://www.barc.gov.in


Fokus Indien → http://www.kooperation-international.de/indien

Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für Indien im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Martin Goller, Tel. 0228/3821-1407, [email protected]



Schlagworte

FuE-Infrastruktur

Irland

Irish Government Invests 1.2 Million Euros in Cloud Com-puting Technology Research Centre

The Government of Ireland, as part of its Action Plan for Jobs, revealed a 1.2 million euros programme to make Ireland a world leader in cloud computing. The new Cloud Computing Technology Research Centre will exist as a consor-tium of third-level institutions.

The funding will be allocated over 12 months to a consortium of Higher Educa-tion Institutions to carry out the initial research programme of the centre. Led by Dublin City University, the research consortium, which includes University Col-lege Cork, and Athlone Institute of Technology with input from the Innovation Value Institute at NUI Maynooth, will use the funding provided by the Depart-ment of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Enterprise Ireland to work with a group of software companies to establish ways to generate business and profit from cloud computing. The Cloud Computing Technology Centre is the latest of 10 such thematically based centres to be established jointly by Enterprise Irel-and and IDA Ireland.

Quelle

→ http://www.idaireland.com/news-media/featured-news/irish-govt-invests-1.2m-i/index.xml

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Action Plan for Jobs 2012 → http://www.djei.ie/publications/2012APJ.pdf


Fokus Irland → http://www.kooperation-international.de/irland

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Schlagworte

Schlüsseltechnologien, Förderung, Kooperation Wissenschaft-Wirtschaft

Government’s Plan to Target Core 500 Million Euros Re-search Budget at Turning Good Ideas into Good Jobs

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr Richard Bruton, TD, along with the Minister for Research and Innovation, Mr Seán Sherlock, TD, launched

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the Government’s plan to target the majority of the Government’s core 500 million euros budget that the State spends on scientific research every year on areas with the greatest potential for economic return. The Report of the Research Prioritisation Steering Group, chaired by Mr Jim O’Hara, former Gen-eral Manager of Intel Ireland, which recommended 14 specific areas of greatest opportunity, was approved by the Government on 21 February 2012.

The Government also announced the establishment of a Prioritisation Action Group, chaired by Minister Sherlock, which will oversee implementation of the recommendations of the report. Membership of the group, which will report to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Jobs, will include all Gov-ernment agencies which are responsible for research budgets and their parent Departments. This group will include Science Foundation Ireland, the Higher Education Authority, IDA Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, the Health Research Board, Teagasc, the Marine Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. This Group will be responsible for iden-tifying actions, timelines and lead actors, consulting with industry players and identifying necessary sources of funding.

As part of the prioritisation process, the following four criteria had to be fulfilled:

• A global market exists in which Irish-based enterprises can compete,

• Public R&D in Ireland is required to exploit the opportunity,

• Ireland has strengths in related research disciplines, and

• A national or global challenge exists which Ireland should respond to.

This announcement comes as part of a series of Government measures aimed at better targeting the State’s scientific research budget at achieving commercial outcomes. In January Minister Sherlock announced that he had secured Gov-ernment approval for legislation to extend the remit of Science Foundation Irel-and to include applied research in areas of strategic opportunity for Ireland.

Minister Sherlock said that the Government had agreed to the future alignment of public investment by research funders consistent with the 14 areas of priority identified in the report and that he would be driving implementation of the rec-

ommendations. He said that he will personally chair a Prioritisation Action Group and he indicated that all relevant Government Departments as well as all re-search funders will be involved and input from external experts and industry will be secured.

Quelle

→ http://www.djei.ie/press/2012/20120301.htm

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Report of the Research Prioritisation Steering Group → http://www.djei.ie/publications/science/2012/research_prioritisation.pdf







Schlagworte

Förderung, Rahmenbedingungen, Wirtschaft und Märkte

Minister Sherlock Launches New Irish Research Council The Minister for Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock, TD, on 29 March 2012 formally launched the new Irish Research Council – a merger of the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). Speaking at the launch of the Research Council, the Minister said: “Research and development is at the heart of this Government’s enterprise policy. The Irish Research Council will encourage innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship, and will support young researchers that will be future leaders in their fields. It will play a vital role in driving future job creation across economic, cultural and social spheres.” The Minister added: “The previous research councils have made a very important contribution to the development of Ireland’s research capabilities

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over the last decade. I look forward to the new Council building on this work, maximising the potential of inter-disciplinary research, enhancing collaboration with enterprise and providing a strong voice for the promotion and support of emerging researchers in Ireland.”

Quelle

→ http://www.irchss.ie/event/2012-03-30/minister-sherlock-launches-new-irish-research-council







Schlagworte

Innovation, Rahmenbedingungen

Norwegen

Evaluation of Basic ICT Research: Vast Potential – Too Little Investment

Despite relatively small investments in ICT research, Norway has many research groups at the international forefront. However, the research focus in several strategically important areas is inadequate. One example is ICT security. These are some of the conclusions from an evaluation of basic Norwegian research in the area of information and communications technology conducted in 2011. The previous evaluation of the ICT field was carried out in 2002.

In the view of the committee, Norway invests too little in ICT research in relation to the field’s importance and compared with many other countries in Western Europe and North America. This makes it more difficult for Norway to take full advantage of the possibilities emerging from ICT-related changes in society.

Despite relatively small investments, the committee points out that Norway has many internationally cutting-edge research groups. Given greater allocation of resources, the number of groups at this level could be even higher.

According to the committee, Norway has focused too little research on key areas such as data and information security. There is a great need to strengthen the knowledge base in this area. The committee would also like to see a national strategy for ICT research that targets quality. The research areas are often fragmented and poorly adapted to the needs of Norwegian industry.

Much of this can be remedied with the national strategy for ICT research current-ly under development by the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs. The strategy is planned to be completed in autumn 2012.

Quelle

→ http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/Vast_potential__too_little_investment/1253976429707

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Fokus Norwegen → http://www.kooperation-international.de/norwegen

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Kommunikation, FuE-Budgets, Evaluation

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Research Infrastructure: Updated National Strategy and Roadmap

The Research Council of Norway has updated its national strategy for research infrastructure and drawn up a new roadmap for strategically important infrastruc-ture. The new versions of Tools for research – Part I and Part II set out the Re-search Council’s vision for Norway’s research infrastructure landscape and pre-sent the strategic foundation for the approach to and prioritisation of activities relating to research infrastructure.

The national strategy for research infrastructure Tools for research – Part I is an update of the version published in 2008. Many of the recommendations made in the previous strategy document have since been followed up and realised. A key aspect of the previous strategy document was to establish the funding scheme known today as the National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure. The updated strategy describes how the funding structure for research infrastructure is to be further developed. Recommendations for actions to be taken by the government ministries and research institutions are provided as well as an over-view of measures the Research Council itself intends to implement.

The strategy and roadmap are part of the research policy input provided by the Research Council to the allocating authorities, and clearly state the importance of continuing to prioritise infrastructure in the form of facilities, equipment and databases.

The strategy strongly recommends that the ministries refer to the roadmap when planning their investments, as this will enable them to take advantage of the considerable effort and substantial resources that have gone into quality-assuring the projects included there. “All of the projects in the Norwegian road-map are of especially high scientific merit, and all of them are considered to be of strategic importance to Norwegian research,” says Arvid Hallén, Director General of the Research Council.

The new strategy documents highlight projects that have already been awarded grants, as well as outstanding projects that have not yet received the green light. “We are in the process of establishing a national structure, in which research

infrastructures that serve a broad national interest are being developed in just one or very few places,” says Mr Hallén. “Many institutions have accepted lead-ership roles, along with the responsibility of making the infrastructure they man-age available to the entire Norwegian research community.”

The initial roadmap encompassed 23 projects; that number has now grown to 38. In the 2010 roadmap, nine of the national projects had received funding from the National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure and were under im-plementation, while the remaining projects were characterised as investment-ready. Fully 21 of the projects in the current roadmap are now under implemen-tation.

Norwegian interests in projects in the ESFRI roadmap (an overview of strategi-cally important, pan-European infrastructures) have also expanded. Norway’s 2010 roadmap included just six ESFRI projects, whereas the new Norwegian roadmap encompasses 12 ESFRI projects in which Norway has entered into binding agreements or has clearly signalled its desire to participate. Three of these will be hosted by Norwegian institutions.

In the Research Council’s input for the 2013 national budget, research infra-structure is once again stressed as a main priority. Continued escalation of in-vestments and long-term, reliable funding for research infrastructure are vital, emphasises the Research Council. “Sound infrastructure organised and man-aged efficiently is critical to realising Norway’s research ambitions,” asserts Mr Hallén. “State-of-the-art equipment also makes Norwegian research groups more attractive internationally. Significant investment in equipment is essential for collaborating with the best international environments and inspiring top stu-dents to pursue a career in research.”

Quelle

→ http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/Updated_national_strategy_and_roadmap/1253976753949?WT.mc_id=nyhetsbrev-ForskningsradetEngelsk



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FuE-Infrastruktur, Internationalisierung

EEA (European Economic Area) Provides Millions for Re-search Collaboration: Norway and Romania Sign Coop-eration Agreement

The new research agreement between Norway and Romania is the first of its kind. The Research Council of Norway is named as the Norwegian partner in the agreement. The agreement is a key part of a wider overall agreement between Norway and Romania which is part of the EEA and Norway Grants scheme. The scheme seeks to reduce economic disparities in the European Economic Area (EEA). The budget framework of the overall agreement with Romania totals ap-proximately NOK 2.3 billion. Of this, NOK 150 million has been earmarked for research collaboration.

In addition to the Research Council the Icelandic Centre for Research is also involved in the project on behalf of the EEA countries. “The details of the re-search agreement are to be drawn up together with our Romanian partner over the upcoming months,” says Inger-Ann Ulstein, acting department director of the Department for Cooperation and Development Research at the Research Coun-cil. “The research agreement will provide a host of opportunities for Romanian researchers as well as for Norwegian researchers seeking collaboration with Romanian research institutions.” Ms Ulstein points out that the agreement makes special mention of research in the field of renewable energy.

The beneficiary countries of the EEA and Norway agreements are the 12 newest EU member states together with Portugal, Greece and Spain. The agreements

are primarily funded by Norway. Altogether, the research funding allocated un-der the current agreements amounts to over 100 million euros.

Country Budget

Poland € 36,830,000

Hungary € 24,138,000

Romania € 20,000,000

The Czech Republic € 12,500,000

Latvia € 4,500,000

Estonia € 3,000,000

Total € 100,958,000

Quelle

→ http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/Norway_and_Romania_sign_cooperation_agreement/1253976742244?WT.mc_id=nyhetsbrev-ForskningsradetEngelsk







Schlagworte FuE-Budgets, Förderung, Rahmenbedingungen



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Norway and the New EU Framework Programme: Wants More Marine and Maritime Research in Horizon 2020

Norway fully supports the broad lines of thinking in the proposal for the new EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation – Horizon 2020, but would like to see greater emphasis placed on marine and maritime research. “A joint European initiative is essential for finding solutions to the great challenges to society. It is positive that the Commission has presented ambitious proposals for research and innovation related to these challenges in Horizon 2020,” says Tora Aasland who just recently stepped down as Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education.

Former Minister Aasland believes that marine and maritime research should be strengthened in the proposal on the framework programme. “Knowledge about the ocean is crucial for understanding climate change and for managing the marine areas. The ocean is also a source of renewable energy and ‘blue growth’ in Europe,” she says.

Former Minister Aasland and her staff at the Ministry of Education and Research made the Norwegian position known in a meeting with other European research ministers as well as in a letter to the European Commission. The letter states that humanities and social research must be given an integral place in an inter-disciplinary approach to the societal challenges. This is true especially for re-search on security issues, in which societal perspectives are just as important as the technological ones.

Norway strongly supports the planned simplification of EU research, but has also made its own recommendations in this area. The main objective of simplification must be to create a funding model that covers the real costs of the research projects, regardless of subject area, type of institution and country.

Norway would also like to see greater emphasis on the gender dimension in the framework programme, and recommends an incentive system to achieve an integrated gender perspective in the projects. Better gender balance should be an objective in all decision-making forums, including the programme boards. Norway proposes that both the Commission and the participating countries es-

tablish clear targets for the percentage of women in the research system that must be reached by 2020.

Quelle

→ http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Newsarticle/Wants_more_marine_and_maritime_research_in_H2020/1253976448189?WT.mc_id=nyhetsbrev-ForskningsradetEngelsk







Schlagworte

Umwelt, Förderung, Rahmenbedingungen

Österreich

Wissenschafts- und Forschungsminister Töchterle unter-streicht hohen Stellenwert des Wissenschaftsfonds für junge Wissenschaftler

„Die Jahresbilanz des Wissenschaftsfonds FWF ist ein eindrucksvoller Beweis: Die Forschung ist weiterhin im Aufschwung und Österreich ein attraktiver Stand-ort, der international absolut mithalten kann“, so Wissenschafts- und For-schungsminister Dr. Karlheinz Töchterle anlässlich der Bilanz-Pressekonferenz am 10. April 2012. Der FWF kann für das Vorjahr auf ein Rekordbewilligungsvo-lumen von rund 195 Millionen Euro verweisen und noch nie konnten so viele junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler durch den FWF finanziert wer-den: Mehr als 3.500 überwiegend junge Forscherinnen und Forscher sind auf der „Payroll“ des FWF. „Der wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs profitiert in beachtli-chem Ausmaß von den Programmen des FWF“, unterstreicht der Wissen-schafts- und Forschungsminister.

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Weiters betont Töchterle den hohen Stellenwert des Wissenschaftsfonds für die (Grundlagenforschung an den) Universitäten. "87 % der Förderungen des FWF werden von Universitätsangehörigen eingeworben." Er verweist auch auf die Rolle des FWF bei der hohen Rückflussquote von 125 % beim aktuellen siebten EU-Forschungsrahmenprogramm „Starke nationale Forschungsförderstrukturen, zu denen der FWF zählt, sind Basis für diese erfolgreiche Beteiligung.“

Die durchschnittliche Bewilligungsquote von Forschungsprojekten, die vom FWF finanziert werden, liegt aktuell bei rund 25 %. "Die vom FWF finanzierte For-schung steht für herausragende Forschungsleistung in Österreich. Durch den FWF werden die besten Forscherinnen und Forscher gefördert und der FWF ist der beste Garant für exzellente Grundlagenforschung in Österreich", dankt Töchterle abschließend FWF-Präsident Dr. Christoph Kratky und seinem Team für deren engagierte Arbeit und die gute Zusammenarbeit mit dem Wissen-schafts- und Forschungsministerium.

Quelle

→ http://www.bmwf.gv.at/startseite/mini_menue/presse_und_news/news_details/cHash/28bc1c93bd4606b44a88bb1727f06128/article/toechterle-zur-fwf-jahresbilanz-forschung-weiterhin-im-aufschwung-fwf-bester-garant-fuer-exzellen/


Fokus Österreich → http://www.kooperation-international.de/oesterreich

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Österreich im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Ulrike Kunze, Tel. 0228/3821-1483, [email protected]



Schlagworte

Fachkräfte, Förderung

Schweden

Impacts of Innovation Policy – Lessons from VINNOVA’s Impact Studies

VINNOVA and its forerunners have made a difference, chiefly in two ways:

• We have played a role in identifying and defining new needs-driven fields of research, in dialogue with stakeholders. This is a role which neither peer re-view nor industry-led consortia can fulfil on their own.

• In the later stages we have also been able to expand promising areas through active collaboration programmes between companies and universi-ties. Calls for proposals in open competition have been an important profile factor, with Triple Helix involvement in the planning and implementation.

Combining both roles requires a mix of “bottom-up” projects, to identify potential new areas of interest and programme efforts, to scale up promising areas.

Our impact studies show that we consistently underestimate how long it takes for new knowledge to provide tangible economic impact. Lead times of 10-20 years are not unusual before effects can be traced at the socioeconomic level. The key results of our efforts have been competence development and organi-sational learning in new knowledge areas. The impact of these efforts has been to develop the capability of the innovation system – rather than individual inno-vations.

Quelle

→ http://www.vinnova.se/sv/Aktuellt--publicerat/Publikationer/Produkter/Impacts-of-Innovation-Policy/

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Impacts of Innovation Policy - Lessons from VINNOVA´s impact studies → http://www.vinnova.se/upload/EPiStorePDF/va-12-01.pdf


Fokus Schweden → http://www.kooperation-international.de/schweden

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Innovation, Cluster, Kooperation Wissenschaft- Wirtschaft, Evaluation

Singapur

SMEs to Benefit from R&D Investments

$1 billion has been set aside from 2011-2015, to help research centers and SMEs proactively identify opportunities for collaboration. This will help to take more ideas from basic research to commercialisation. The key objective of R&D efforts is to transfer technology to SMEs, and to enhance their technological capabilities, competitiveness and productivity.

Quelle

→ http://app.mti.gov.sg/data/article/27422/doc/2M’s%20COS%20Speech%20(2%20Mar).pdf


Fokus Singapur → http://www.kooperation-international.de/singapur

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Singapur im Internationalen Büro

Dr. Xiaomeng Shen (Bildung) Tel. 0228/3821-1419, [email protected]

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Förderung, KMU

EIU Identifies Singapore as Asia’s Most Competitive City and Ranks Third Globally

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has identified Singapore as the 3rd most competitive global city and the highest ranked Asian city in its report “Hot Spots: Benchmarking global city competitiveness”. Singapore ranked particularly well in the categories of physical capital, financial maturity, institutional effectiveness and global appeal.

Quelle

→ http://www.edb.gov.sg/edb/sg/en_uk/index/news/articles/economist_intelligence_unit.html


Fokus Singapur → http://www.kooperation-international.de/singapur

Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Singapur im Internationalen Büro

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Rahmenbedingungen, Evaluation

Spanien

Bigger-Than-Expected Budget Cuts Hit Spanish Scientists According to details of the budget bill revealed on April 3rd, Spain's national government will spend a total of about 6.39 billion euros on scientific investiga-tion, development, and innovation in 2012. Of this money, 5.63 billion euros will be dedicated to civil research, which represents a 25.6 % decrease compared to the 7.58 billion euros allocated in 2011. The remaining 758 million euros will be



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spent on military research, which will see a 24.9 % decrease from just above 1 billion euros in 2011.

Back in December, the government announced a package of measures that anticipated a 600 million euros cut in the 2012 research budget. The recently announced even larger cuts disappointed some Spanish researchers, as the decrease in science money is larger than the average drop in funding across all the ministries, which is around 17 %.

Spain's scientific community is also concerned that not all of the promised re-search money will actually materialize. For example, one peculiarity of the Span-ish budget for science is that more than half of the money is usually allocated under the form of loans to companies, and much of it never makes it out of the state coffers.

Quelle

→ http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/04/bigger-than-expected-budget-cuts.html


Scientists see funding slashed in Spanish budget → http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/04/scientists-see-funding-slashed-in-spanish-

budget.html


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Fachliche Ansprechpartnerin für Spanien im Internationalen Büro


Fachlicher Ansprechpartner für FuE-Budgets im VDI Technologiezentrum


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FuE-Budgets

Südafrika

Sub-Saharan Africans Join Forces for TB Vaccine Re-search

Researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa are playing a key role in the development of a new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, following South Africa's lead, a meeting in Jo-hannesburg heard last week (20 March).

At the meeting, held before World TB Day (24 March), researchers launched a blueprint on TB vaccine research for the next decade, and discussed the role the country and the region will play in TB vaccine research. South Africa has the second-highest incidence of TB worldwide, which makes it an appropriate place to test new vaccines.

South Africa is collaborating with nine other institutions in Africa. For example, the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) has formed partner-ships for clinical trials with research institutions in Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda.

Quelle

→ http://www.scidev.net/en/health/tuberculosis/news/sub-saharan-africans-join-forces-for-tb-vaccine-research.html

Download

Tuberculosis Vaccines: A Strategic Blueprint for the Next Decade → http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/1472-

9792/PIIS1472979212000492.pdf


TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative → http://www.tbvi.eu

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Lebenswissenschaften, Internationalisierung

Ungarn

The Science and Technology Observatory Starts Its Op-eration Soon

The National Innovation Office’s (NIH) scope of activities are going to broaden probably from spring as the Science and Technology Observatory starts its op-eration, Dr. György Mészáros, president of the NIH announced at the meeting of the Parliament’s Innovation and Development Committee on 28 March.

The aim of the Observatory is to support the governmental and the entrepreneu-rial sphere with up-to-date information from the field of research, development and innovation. An informatics system is going to be developed which makes possible to create a new, more precise and more expedient databases. The claim of the formation of the Science and Technological Observatory was ex-pressed by the New Széchenyi Plan’s (ÚSzT) Science-Innovation Programme. The observatory helps the government’s and enterprises’ (first of all the small and medium-size enterprises) strategic planning and decision making by operat-ing an extensive professional information centre.

The observatory makes analysis based on strategic monitoring for the innova-tion-policy. The first prosperity report based on this method is ready by April. Beside that the datas collected by the observatory are going to be accessible to the characters of research, development and innovation (RDI) policy as well (so to the enterprises working in the economic sphere too). The developed informat-ics system stores the data’s of the RDI sector. This makes the dynamical data-filtering possible and provides a structural database-knowledgebase function through the usage.

The president of the NIH added by answering to a question of an MP that the NIH runs from 1.2 billion forints and it does not contain the tenders’ sources.

Quelle

→ http://www.nih.gov.hu/english/press-releases/the-science-and


Englischsprachige Homepage des Nationalen Innovationsbüros Ungarn NIH → http://www.nih.gov.hu/english Neuer Széchenyi-Plan (englische Kurzfassung) → http://www.internationales-buero.de/_media/New_Szechenyi_Plan.pdf Wissenschaft-Innovation-Programm des Neuen Széchenyi-Plans (ungarisch) → http://ujszechenyiterv.gov.hu/download/32079/005_TudomanyInnovacio.pdf


Fokus Ungarn → http://www.kooperation-international.de/ungarn

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Evaluation, Foresight, Rahmenbedingungen


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