Research News Claus Roll
Claus Roll is a director of research and program development for OSA Europe.
News stories about European research funding often dwell on EU-level spending particularly on Horizon Europe, the seven-year, €95.5 billion (US$115.8 billion) framework program covering the period from 2021 through 2027. Yet, impressive as that seven-year EU funding number sounds, it’s dwarfed by the research spending commitment of some individual countries within the union. In Germany, for example, a combination of government, industry and other sources spent some €104.8 billion on research across all disciplines in 2018 a single year.
Understanding European research funding at the country level and where it’s headed, therefore, is arguably far more important than following the twists and turns of the EU program. As a step toward a clearer view, we here begin a series of OPN stories that take a deeper dive into how country-level government research funding works in th
Germany’s industrial sector avoided a contraction in December last year, despite COVID-19 lockdowns at home and abroad, as strong demand from China helped export-oriented manufacturers in Europe’s largest economy weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
Industrial output was flat on the month after an upwardly revised increase of 1.5 percent in the previous month, figures released by the German Federal Statistics Office showed.
This was the first stagnation following seven consecutive months of expansions.
The main drag came from construction where output fell by 3.2 percent. Looking at core manufacturing alone, output rose by 0.9 percent on the month.
“The German manufacturing sector has performed
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On January 22, 2021, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has published the anticipated draft revision of the German Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance to align the scope of review more closely with the EU Screening Regulation. The Ministry launched a consultation process the same day and is giving the associations and companies potentially affected the opportunity to discuss their views and propose further revisions.
Following a number of revisions of the German foreign direct investment rules throughout 2020 (including a COVID-19-related broadening of the scope of review, the introduction of a standstill obligation outside of defense deals, and criminal sanctions for non-compliance), the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (
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German govt signs innovation pact on Industry 4.0, climate, mobility with Dutch counterpart Friday 22 January 2021 | 10:22 CET | News The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs said it has signed an innovation pact with its Dutch counterpart. They aim to promote innovations in areas such as Industry 4.0, CO2 reduction in industry, mobility, healthcare and key technologies. The parties involved are Germany s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Federation of German Industry (BDI), and on the Dutch side, the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, the Foreign Ministry, employers federation VNO-NCW, the association of enterprises in the industrial sector FME, and Top Sector HTSM.
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It will be used to investigate new nanomaterials under the extreme conditions of space, to test systems for converting the sun s heat into electricity and to precisely measure the residual atmosphere around the satellite. SOMP2b will begin its journey around the Earth at an altitude of 500 km - slightly higher than the ISS space station. It will orbit the Earth in a special polar, sun-synchronous orbit, always flying over the TU Dresden ground station at approximately the same time of day and sending measurement data.
SOMP2b is a follow-up satellite to SOMP2, a nanosatellite jointly developed by students, PhD candidates and scientists from TU Dresden s Faculty of Mechanical Science and Engineering. SOMP2b stands for Student On-Orbit Measurement Project Number 2b. It is 20 cm x10 cm x10 cm in size and weighs a little less than 2 kilograms. SOMP2b will orbit the Earth so fast that it will see sunrise and sunset 16 times a day. This will be