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BioEconomyCouncil Welcomes DAFA Industry Forum on Livestock Husbandry
Berlin, 30 September 2011. Hardly any other agricultural sector is as scientifically based and research-intensive as animal husbandry. That’s why today, more than ever, it is essential to focus the German bio-economy’s top research on this field. For this purpose, the BioEconomyCouncil is supporting the farm animal industry forum hosted by the German Agricultural Research Alliance (DAFA) on 4 and 5 October 2011. Council members Manfred Schwerin (chair of the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology in Dummerstorf and Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Rostock) and Folkhard Isermeyer (President of the Thünen Institute in Braunschweig) were instrumental in promoting the DAFA initiative for the forum.
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Research for sustainable economy through renewable raw materials
The Bioeconomy Science Centre
How can plant-based biomass be made available in a sufficient and sustainable way? And how can reusable materials be produced cost-effectively and efficiently with the aid of microorganisms, for example? These questions, and many others, are the focus of researchers at the RWTH Aachen, the Universities of Bonn and Düsseldorf and the Jülich Research Centre together with business partners at the Bioeconomy Science Centre. On 12 September 2011, together with representatives from the EU as well as the federal and state governments, they discussed the opportunities and challenges for a future bio-economy.
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Need for targeted research to resolve the conflict between soil protection and soil use
Conference on Soil and Land Management in the Context of National and International Challenges
Soil protection alone is too narrow a concept for sustainable soil and land use both in this country and in other parts of the world. The big challenges for our society such as climate change and food security call for considerably more broadly-based methods of resolution. To this end, acatech experts and representatives from science, industry and politics came together for the "Soil and Land Management in the Context of National and International Challenges" Conference on 8 September in Berlin.
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Sustainable food security in times of climate change: the FACCE-JPI EU Initiative
According to current projections the temperatures in Germany will rise by up to four degrees in the next 50 years. The consequences of this steep increase will be extreme weather conditions and marked fluctuations in local climates, which will bring agricultural production increasingly under pressure. The European Joint Programming Initiative with the themes of Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI) is designed to make a contribution to this major challenge.
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GO-Bio: A new selection round for the bio-technology foundation offensive
From now on research groups in universities or research establishments outside universities can apply for the 5th selection round of the "GO-Bio" Competition of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. What is being sought are foundation teams who are working on highly innovative research topics, which have a promising, provable potential for commercialisation. Research projects which are in line with the aims of the "National BioEconomy Research Strategy 2030" are specifically required.
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