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10/19/2020 11:37

Green Talents 2020 on a virtual tour in Germany

Stefanie Huland Unternehmenskommunikation
DLR Projektträger

    Outstanding green visionaries from all over the world will meet Germany’s sustainability research elite during the first virtual science tour.

    Bonn, 19 October 2020 The 25 winners of this year’s Green Talents Competition have been selected to attend the premiere of a Virtual Science Forum for talented junior researchers in the field of sustainability science, which starts today; responsible for the organisation of the competition is the DLR Project Management Agency. The winners are engaged in topics ranging from climate change to energy systems. For the first time ever, the winners include researchers from Benin, Japan and Malawi. For more details, the awardees’ individual research profiles can be accessed exclusively on our Website https://www.greentalents.de/awardees-2020.php.

    At the end of the Virtual Science Forum, the 25 Green Talents will be honoured by Dr Michael Meister, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research, during a virtual award ceremony on Monday, 26 October 2020, from 10.00 to 11.30 a.m. (CET). You are cordially invited to virtually attend the ceremony and to interview the awardees subsequently via video call.

    Please confirm your virtual attendance at the award ceremony and/or submit your requests to interview winners of the Green Talents Competition 2020 to
    greentalents@mcgroup.com by Friday, 23 October 2020.

    Background Information

    The Green Talents programme is conducted under the patronage of the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek. The award has been honouring talented researchers since 2009 and provides young scientists with a platform for sharing their views on green concepts to make our world a better place. This year, a high-ranking jury of German experts selected 25 up-and-coming researchers among 589 applicants from 87 countries as the winners. Each award comprises one of the coveted tickets to the “Green Talents International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development”.

    Due to the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's Green Talents Science Forum will for the first time take place in a fully online format as a Virtual Science Forum. It will take the 25 Green Talents on an exciting virtual journey where they can explore Germany’s sustainability research landscape, network with German researchers and get to know their fellow award winners. In the coming days, the awardees will be remotely visiting German research institutions, universities and organisations concerned with sustainability science, and discussing their projects with local experts. Among the research institutions participating in this year’s programme are the University of Hamburg, my Boo (a company that builds bamboo bikes), the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT Rostock), the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

    By having the chance to establish contacts with the German science community and exchange exciting ideas with some of its key innovators, the awardees will be able to lay the foundations for future cooperation. These opportunities are accompanied by an invitation to come to Germany in 2021 for a fully funded research stay at an institution of their choice.

    Contact:
    DLR Project Management Agency
    German Aerospace Center (DLR)
    European and International Cooperation
    Email: greentalents@dlr.de
    Phone: +49 (0) 228 3821 1520

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    For more than four decades, the DLR Project Management Agency (DLR Projektträger) has been com-mitted to strengthening Germany as a hub of research, education and innovation. As one of the largest project management agencies in Germany, our highly qualified employees currently manage more than 10,500 projects with total annual funds of around 1.5 billion Euros. The DLR project management agency works on behalf of federal ministries, the European Commission, federal states, scientific organ-isations, foundations and associations. It advises on strategies and programmes, provides scientific, technical and administrative support for funding projects, supports knowledge transfer and the exploi-tation of project results. Its spectrum of topics ranges from education, equal opportunities, health, soci-ety, innovation, key technologies, environment and sustainability to European and international coop-eration. The portfolio of the DLR Project Management Agency is enhanced by its Competence Centres for Science Communication, Public Relations as well as for Analysis and Evaluation.

    The DLR Project Management Agency is a central pillar of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt or DLR) and complements its scientific profile.


    More information:

    http://www.greentalents.de


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