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BY: Joshua Bediako Koomson
Category: General News
Ms Dorothee Dinkelaker (middle), Head of Development Cooperation, German Embassy, and Mr Yofi Grant (right), the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, displaying the signed documents. With them is Mr Gerald Guskowski (left), Head of the GIZ Country Programme. Picture: GABRIEL AHIABOR
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The Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC) has signed a €762,300 financing agreement with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development to help address challenges in the investment sector that had been worsened by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Under the agreement, the two parties would mobilise investment and promote job-creating growth of enterprises in the country.
23 European nations launch IPCEI Hydrogen
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has just announced the launch of the IPCEI Hydrogen. This is a joint European project (Important Projects of Common European Interest, or IPCEI) analogous to the two initiatives already launched in the field of battery cell manufacturing.
Twenty-two EU member states and Norway have signed a declaration of intent stating their willingness to support the development of a European value chain for green hydrogen in particular and to invest billions of euros accordingly. The participating countries describe the commitment to hydrogen as a technology of the future as crucial to making Europe a climate-neutral continent by 2050.
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Hamburg Messe und Congress to organise German pavilion at Floriade Expo 2022
The German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture has asked Hamburg Messe und Congress (HMC) to organise the official German pavilion and garden at the international horticultural exhibition Floriade Expo 2022 as general contractor. It will be the seventh Floriade Expo national stand contract for the
The event is scheduled to run 14 April until 9 October 2022 in Amsterdam-Almere under the expo theme, ‘Growing Green Cities’.
“We have successfully organised past German participations at horticultural expositions on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, including the 2016 expo in Antalya and the 2019 expo in Beijing,” said Bernd Aufderheide, president and CEO of HMC. “We truly appreciate the German government entrusting us once again with the responsibility of organising the German pavilion in a global expo.”
Berlin researchers develop UVC LEDs to fight coronaviruses
In the joint CORSA project, SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses on surfaces and skin are to be deactivated by using UVC light. The project team is developing special UVC LEDs for this purpose and is investigating parameters such as wavelengths, irradiation doses and virus habitats. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is supporting the three-year project from 2021 with a total of three million euros.
Like bacteria and fungi, viruses can be inactivated by UVC light. However, for the current coronavirus, no reliable data on the optimal wavelengths and irradiation doses have been available to date. This is to change with the CORSA project (Deactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by UVC light and tolerability for humans), which has commenced.