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© chokniti – stock.adobe.com Israeli-German project invetsigates the role of intracellular players in reading mRNA
More than 1,000 players are involved in a cell when genetic information is translated into proteins. A new German-Israeli research project is now working on systematically identifying their respective tasks. The 5-year project is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the framework of the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP).
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© arsenypopel – stock.adobe.com Israeli Government approves stimulus package to boost High-Tech Industry
On 15 January 2024, the Israeli government, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the Israeli Innovation Authority, announced that it has approved a transformative stimulus package aimed at elevating Israel’s standing as a global high-tech hub.
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© Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Meeting of the Minerva Fellows 2024
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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© Fundación PRIMA PRIMA Calls 2024 now open
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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© Psylaw – stock.adobe.com Eureka Call on Applied Quantum Technologies
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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© catalin – stock.adobe.com Joint German-Israeli research project on how to stop cancer proteins
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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© Eyal Shtark – stock.adobe.com Isarel and Germany renew their Agreement on Energy Cooperation
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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© Ekaterine – stock.adobe.com Lower Saxony strengthens research cooperation with Israel
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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© Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Additional funding for German-Israeli collaborations
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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© Ekaterine – stock.adobe.com Federal Research Minister travels to Israel
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).
