DFG Leibniz Lecture on Quantum Metrology at Lomonosov University in Moscow

(22.02.17) At the end of February, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) organised a lecture at the Faculty of Physics at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) by Leibniz Prize recipient, DFG Vice-President and respected experimental physicist Professor Wolfgang Ertmer. Professor Ertmer’s topic of ‘Cold Atom Based Quantum Metrology’ attracted an interested specialist audience, including a large number of students.

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5th Symposium of the German-Russian International Research Training Group 1956 in Moscow

(27.03.17) In mid-March, the German-Russian IRTG 1956 held its 5th symposium at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU). The Research Training Group, which was formally inaugurated in Moscow in 2015 by a prominent delegation, is based at RGGU and the University of Freiburg.

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DFG Moscow Accompanies Bavarian Research Delegation on Visit to Russian Partner Organisation RFBR

(28.03.17) On 17 March, DFG Moscow accompanied a research delegation of the Bavarian Minister of State for Education, Research and Art, Dr. Ludwig Spaenle, to a meeting with representatives of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. In addition to representatives of the ministry and the German embassy in Moscow, the delegation included the President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Prof. Dr. Thomas Höllmann, the Rector of the University of Würzburg, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Alfred Forchel, and the managing director of the Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (BAYHOST), Nikolas Djukic.

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Conference on “Literature and Foreign Cultural Policy” at RGGU Moscow

(28.03.17) From 16 to 18 March, an international conference entitled “Literature and Foreign Cultural Policy” was held at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU). As the annual conference of the Institute of Russian-German Literary and Cultural Relations (IRDLK) at RGGU Moscow, it was held during the core month of the DFG-funded German-Russian International Research Training Group 1956. Over the three days of the conference, scholars debated the political dimension of literature and the interdependent relationship between literature, art and politics.

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Brochure on German-Russian Week of the Young Researcher at MGSU: “Urban Studies: the City of the Future”

(10.05.17) In early September 2016, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) organised the sixth German-Russian Week of the Young Researcher under the umbrella of the German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH Moscow). This brochure can be downloaded from the DFG website.

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DFG Intensifies Cooperation with St. Petersburg

(07.06.17) At the beginning of June 2017, a DFG delegation led by Secretary General Dorothee Dzwonnek travelled to St. Petersburg. In the last five years, the DFG has funded nearly 100 proposals with cooperation partners in Russia’s northern capital. In addition to the first German-Russian Collaborative Research Centre, TRR 160, based at the Ioffe Institute and the State University, this year nine more research projects funded jointly with the university, were given the go-ahead. The DFG took this opportunity to hold discussions with representatives of various universities and other research institutions at a press conference, workshop and evening reception held at St. Petersburg’s highly respected House of Scientists.

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DFG Hosts Summer Reception in Moscow

(27.06.17) At the end of June, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) hosted its traditional summer reception in Moscow. In the presence of some 150 invited guests, some of whom travelled from St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the DFG and its local partners thanked the representatives of both countries for their open and constructive collaboration in the past year. A roundtable discussion was held the next day with the partner organisations of the DFG with the aim of further consolidating the collaboration between the institutions.

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DFG Attends German-Russian Week of the Young Researcher on Computational Biology and Biomedicine at Skoltech/Moscow

(26.09.17) In early September, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) organised the seventh German-Russian Week of the Young Researcher under the umbrella of the German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH Moscow).

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DFG Moscow Office Offers Congratulations on 50 Years of German-Russian University Partnership

(06.10.17) At the beginning of October, the National Research University Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU) and Bauhaus University Weimar celebrated the 50th anniversary of their partnership in Moscow. During a multi-day meeting of representatives from both universities, there was a specialist seminar, a presentation of dissertations and an official ceremony attended by a German delegation from Bauhaus University Weimar led by the university’s President, Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp. As supporters of the partnership, representatives of the scientific section at the German embassy in Moscow, the DAAD in Moscow, the federal state of Thuringia and the Director of the DFG’s Moscow office accepted the invitation to give a few words of welcome at the event.

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DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies Attends International Conference in Moscow

(19.12.17) On 4 and 5 December the DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Russian-language Lyric Poetry in Transition’, led by Prof. Henrieke Stahl (Trier University), participated in an international conference on ‘China in Contemporary Lyric Poetry (Russia, Europe and America)’ at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in Moscow.

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