Programmes & Initiatives
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are in the vanguard of technological progress in many areas. Through KMU-innovativ, the BMBF is supporting cutting-edge research in important future areas such as biotechnology among others.
"We need scientists in Germany who think entrepreneurially." This was how Federal Minister for Research Annette Schavan described the goals of Gründungsoffensive Biotechnologie (Founding Push Biotechnology) (GO-Bio) in 2005. Over five rounds of the competition, 150 million euros have been devoted to the initiative.
By providing support for junior researchers we are investing in our future. BioFuture successfully supports young researchers in biotechnology and its neighbouring disciplines.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the Pharmaceuticals Initiative for Germany in order to give new impetus to Germany's biotechnology and pharmaceuticals industries. The key element of the initiative is the BioPharma Competition.
For industry, biotechnological procedures, which exploit the microorganisms’ natural tricks, are the keys to the solution of a set of problems. In order to further promote this business activity, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) initiated the cluster competition BioIndustrie 2021 in the autumn of 2006.
The BioRegio and BioProfile competitions are addressed to regions which boast special profiles in particularly future-oriented fields of application of modern biotechnology.
How and why can food make one healthy or unwell? What influence can diet have on metabolic diseases or cancer? These are among the questions being tackled by modern nutrition research, which is specifically supported by a range of BMBF initiatives.
With the initiative BioEnergy 2021, the BMBF is providing targeted support for research projects aimed at increasing the share of renewable resources in the energy supply.
Plants are well suited to helping solve many of the urgent problems that are expected to arise from climate change and the dwindling reserves of raw materials. The Federal Government has set itself the target of unlocking the potential of the innovative area of plants.
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