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From 15 to 16 January 2024, the German and Israeli Fellows of the Minerva Fellowship Programme came together in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg. Since the outbreak of war in Israel, triggered by Hamas’ terrorist attack on 7 October 2023, the Fellowship Programme of the Minerva Stiftung has faced the greatest challenges in its 50-year history.

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PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) is an international funding initiative to effectively address the challenges of the Mediterranean area in terms of agri-food systems and water scarcity through research and innovation. The PRIMA calls 2024 were launched in January.

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National funding bodies from 15 countries, including Israel and Germany, have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international R&D projects in the field of applied quantum technologies. You will be able to submit your project application for this call between 1 February 2024 and 9 May 2024. A brokerage event is planned for early February.

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As part of a joint research project, scientists from Haifa-based Technion, Goethe University Frankfurt and Helmholtz Munich / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München are investigating oncoproteins and attempting to develop starting points for new therapies. The project ‘Understanding and Targeting Degradation-resistant Cancers’ has received 1.6 million euros in funding as part of the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP).

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On 5 December 2023, as part of the UN’s global climate conference COP28, Dr. Gideon Friedman, Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, and Gerlind Heckmann, Deputy Director of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, signed a joint work programme by the two states in the energy field for…

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The Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation are providing around 2.68 million euros to strengthen cooperation between Israeli and Lower Saxony universities and research institutions. A total of 9 outstanding research projects are being funded in the context of the programme zukunft.niedersachsen. The projects are being carried out jointly

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BMBF approves additional funding of 0.5 million euros. Max Planck Foundation provides initial funding of 1 million euros. Following the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court an audit of the expenditure of federal ministries had been initiated. It was initially unclear what impact the agreement on the 2024 federal budget would have on the Federal

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At the invitation of Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, travelled to Israel on 17 December 2023 together with a delegation from the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany (KMK).

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With a new round of research projects, the German-Israeli water technology cooperation maintains continuity in the relations between the two countries. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Israel’s Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology (MOST) are calling on researchers from both countries to submit proposals for bilateral R&D projects in the

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As part of the German Israeli Health Forum for Artificial Intelligence (GIHF-AI), the European Leadership Network (ELNET) organised a parliamentary breakfast on 12 December 2023 at the German Parliamentary Society (DPG) in Berlin. The event was held in cooperation with the Israeli company Novocure. It commenced with opening remarks from the hosting GIHF-AI board members

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