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College for Life Sciences

The College for Life Sciences is a unique program of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, to promote excellent early-career postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences and medicine.

Germany’s “Future of Work” Campaign

Hosted by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the “Future of Work” campaign seeks to acquire international cooperation from three countries on topics such as education and big data, industry and networking, workplace and society and more.

Future of Work: VR for Planning

R3DT

R3DT offers the most user-friendly VR tool for industrial engineering.

Future of Work: Human-Machine Interaction

Wandelbots

Based in Dresden and founded in 2017, Wandelbots is a startup dedicated to the human-centered programming of robots. Their work enables non-programmers to teach industrial robots more quickly and cheaply without writing a single line of code.

Future of Work: Smart Factories

Cybus

Founded in 2015, the Hamburg-based start-up Cybus sells a software-based IIoT (industrial internet of things) gateway solution for managing the data flow between production machines, corporate IT systems and external IoT cloud platforms.

Germany to Strengthen 11 Universities to Elite Status

In the US there are Harvard, Stanford and MIT—the elite universities whose research and influence ranks them among the best worldwide. In Germany there are the “Universities of Excellence.”

Germany Pledges $3.1 Billion to University Research Groups

Part of the Excellence Strategy, Germany selected 57 research-based clusters in which to invest €385 million annually. Selected clusters represent Germany’s best university-based research.