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Czech-German co-operation in Research,
Development and Innovation
Innovation 2006 The Week of Research, Development
and Innovation in the CR XIII International
Symposium INNOVATION 2006
Dr. Hans-Jürgen Donath International Bureau of
the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF)
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What has been reached so far?
Since the early 90s BMBF and MŠMT have been
co-funding projects in the frame of
scientific-technological co-operation aiming to
establish sustainable links between scientists
and engineers to create a solid basis to build-on
for future collaboration.
During a period of now more than 15 years a
fruitful co-operation in various fields of
scientific and technological RD has been
carried out between Czech and German research
institutions.

• Highlights of the past
• Environmental research
• Nanotechnologies
• Life sciences

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What has been reached so far?

• Since 2000 BMBF has supported more than 120
  projects.
• More than 120 German Higher Education
  establishments have co-operation agreements with
  37 Czech Institutions.
• Within the exchange programmes of the DAAD more
  than 500 Germans went to the Czech Republic and
  about 900 Czech Students and Scientists have
  visited Germany in the year 2004.
• Other German institutions like the Alexander von
  Humboldt-Foundation, the Max-Planck Society and
  the Helmholtz Association also were very active.

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What has been reached so far?
The instruments used by BMBF to support this
goals have shifted during that time from
traditional bilateral co-operation of single
researchers or institutions to a more or less
multilateral networking approach.
Why that? The answer is that Globalisation does
also influence research and development, so we
have to meet these challenges by adapting our
strategies to what the markets demand!
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Where are we now?
For this reason BMBF has introduced a specific
programme to support the preparation of
integrated multilateral research projects, as
this has become both a very time and resources
consuming process.
Regional Call International Co-operation in
Education and Research Central, Eastern and
South Eastern European Region (www.bmbf.de
or www.internationales-buero.de)
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The programme Regional Call

• Objectives
• awareness building for options of joint
  research within national and European programmes
• focussing the classical government supported
  bilateral cooperation towards the initiation of
  complex projects, financed under the respective
  national or European programmes
• strengthening international cooperation in
  national programmes
• strengthening joint participation in European
  programmes
• supporting the preparatory phase of joint
  projects in strategic scientific areas

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The programme Regional Call

• The Regional Call aims to set-up and implement
  joint RD projects with CEE/SEE countries.
• Which have to be submitted either
• to a suitable strategic funding programme of the
  BMBF
• or
• to one of the research programmes of the
  European Union

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The programme Regional Call

• Instruments
• preparatory missions
• individual contact visits
• expert meetings
• pilot investigations
• investigations of feasibility
• thematic workshops

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The programme Regional Call

• Funding can be provided for
• travel expenses of German experts
• costs of visits of foreign experts to Germany
• staff costs for investigations of feasibility
  (max. 1-3 months)
• costs of events (workshops, thematic
  conferences)
• physical resources (e.g. consumables for pilot
  investigations)
• Maximum amount of funding up to 50,000 for
  preparation of particularly complex projects

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The programme Regional Call

• Who can apply?
• Applications may be submitted by
• public and private institutions of higher
  education
• non-university research establishments
• commercial companies especially SMEs
• Size of consortia
• German applicant and at least two further
  institutions, one of them from CEE/SEE country
• Preference will be given for applications
  involving SMEs

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The programme Regional Call

• Evaluation criteria
• prospects of the proposed project for receiving
  funding from national or European programme
• originality of the idea
• qualifications of the coordinator and the
  project partners
• potential for solving problems
• benefit of co-operation
• new partnerships
• commercial exploitation of the anticipated
  results
• promotion of young research talent

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Key areas of BMBF Strategic Funding Programmes
and current calls

• NEW TECHNOLOGIES (www.bmbf.de/de/1000.php)
• Information society (www.bmbf.de/de/398.php)
• Nanotechnology (www.bmbf.de/nanotechnologie.p
  hp)
• Optical technologies (www.bmbf.de/de/3591.php)
  
• Research for the
• production of tomorrow (www.bmbf.de/de/686.php)
• Materials innovation for
• industry and society (www.werkstoffinnovat
  ionen.de)

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Key areas of BMBF Strategic Funding Programmes
and current calls

• LIFE SCIENCES (www.bmbf.de/de/1237.php)
• Health research (www.bmbf.de/de/gesundheitsfors
  chung.php)
• Biomedical research (www.bmbf.de/de/979.php)
• Biotechnology (www.bmbf.de/de/1024.php)
• SUSTAINABILITY (www.fona.de)

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Key areas of the 7th Framework Programme of the
European Union

• Health
• Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology
• Information and Communication Technologies
• Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and
• New Production Technologies
• Energy
• Environment (including Climate Change)
• Transport (including Aeronautics)
• Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities
• Security and Space

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Contacts
Applications for regional call to
International Bureau of the BMBF at the
DLR Königswinterer Straße 522-524 D-53227
Bonn Tel. [phone], Fax49 (0) 228
3821-444 Internet www.internationales-buero.de
desk officers responsible for the respective
country Internet www.internationales-buero.de/das
_ib/team/europa Specialist information and
counselling on funding programmes of the
BMBF Auskunftsstelle BMBF Förderung (Information
Bureau for BMBF Programmes) Tel. 49 (0) 800
2623008 E-mail foerderinfo_at_bmbf.de Internet
www.foederinfo.bmbf.de
Counselling on regional call Hungary and Joint
Research Bases Karin Wedde - Mühlhausen Internati
onal Bureau of the BMBFTel. 49 (0) 228 -
3821 480 Fax 49 (0) 228 - 3821 444 Email
karin.wedde-muehlhausen_at_dlr.de Slovak Republic
Dr. Hans-Peter Niller, Tel. [phone]
483 Czech Republic Dr. Hans-Jürgen Donath,
Tel. [phone] Poland, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania Dr. Michael Lange, Tel. [phone]
485 South Eastern Europe Ralf Hanatschek, Tel.
49 228 3821 482