European perspectives of German-Russian research cooperation

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"Russia's integration into the European Research Area is one of the prime objectives of the German Research Foundation (DFG)," emphasised DFG President Prof. Matthias Kleiner at the international DFG Conference "European Perspectives of German-Russian Research Cooperation" held in Moscow in early March 2009.

In this respect, the DFG is led by the vision of a European Research Area in which the open exchange of scientists, research findings and technologies is just as natural as is the movement of goods, people, services and capital. German-Russian research cooperation has been strong for a long time. For example, aerospace engineers from the University of Stuttgart have been collaborating with the Khristianovich Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Novosibirsk on the development of hypersonic transport systems since the early 1990s.

While Germans and Russians have also been cooperating for more than 15 years in various archaeological excavation projects. And quantum physicists from the Institute of Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden are cooperating with the Moscow State University. Last but not least, a life sciences orientated International Research Training Group has been researching enzymes since 2006, bringing together doctoral students from the Universities of Gießen and Marburg as well as from the Lomonosov University in Moscow. The DFG now wants to use its Moscow Office to establish and extend "strategic partnerships" like these. 

Contact: Alice.Rajewsky@dfg.de

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