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The Digital Green Talents Award 2025 is entering a new round. Young scientists from around the world with innovative ideas on digital technology and sustainable development are invited to submit their applications for the competition by June 6, 2025. The ...

At European level, research and innovation funding is currently being prepared for the period from 2028. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing impetus in the field of sustainability research. These contributions are intended ...

The agricultural output of Namibia's savannahs has shrunk by two thirds in recent decades. The reason: bush encroachment on the grasslands. The BMBF project ButoVal has now presented a plant, that can effectively process bush biomass.

Four new projects on water reuse in agriculture have been launched as part of the German-Israeli Water Technology Cooperation. Researchers from both countries are working together to develop sustainable solutions for one of the biggest future water ...

The BMBF project EnaTex developed new solutions to make the textile industry in Indonesia more climate-friendly. With success: up to 40 per cent of the energy consumption can be saved through measures in pre-treatment, dyeing and finishing.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding projects on the water-energy nexus with a new call for proposals. The aim is to to significantly improve water and energy efficiency and strengthen the synergies between the two ...

How is climate change affecting West Africa? How can we tackle the impacts? Six African-German WASCAL research projects developed innovative methods and tools. They presented the results at the final conference.

The main phase of the "Water Security in Africa" (WASA) research programme is in full swing: more than 100 researchers, industry partners, policy-makers and stakeholders from Germany and southern Africa gathered for the official launch in Stellenbosch, ...

Since the first measurement flight in 1994, the European research infrastructure IAGOS has developed a measurement technique that is used in commercial airplanes and regularly provide extensive climate data from the atmosphere – with many years of ...

The European partnership "Water4All", supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) among others, launched its third Joint Transnational Call on September 12, 2024.

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) are pleased to announce the upcoming JCoI Youth for Green Hydrogen (Y4H2) scholarship ...

Pre-Anncouncement: As of September 12, 2024, the new call on "Water for Circular Economy" will be launched in the framework of the European partnership Water4All.

Research and innovation are key drivers of sustainable transformation. At European level, the Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation play an important role. With a view to the tenth framework program (FP10), the Federal Ministry of Education ...

Climate change presents new challenges for water management in Germany. In this context, water reuse is becoming increasingly important as a means of coping with local and regional water shortages. Israel's long-standing experience in this field offers ...

Prof. Gerrit Lohmann explains why the simulation of the climate over the last 130,000 years is so important in order to make more reliable predictions about the development of climate change over the next centuries and millennia.