German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York

Throwback to 2023! What does #resilience mean to you? Have a look at the answers the #DWIHNY team and its partners gave when summarizing the activities around last year's focus topic "The Resilient Society". To access the full report, please click on the link in the comments. Benedikt Brisch, Jan Lüdert, Ph.D., Julia Helmes, David Kürbiß, Priya S. Nayar, Dana Cowlishaw, Patrizia Nobbe

Last stop: Cologne. Jan Lüdert, Ph.D. visited the Universität zu Köln, one of the long-term #DWIHNY main supporters. Thank you, Eva Bosbach, Executive Director of the New York Office, for organizing these important meetings: Prof. Joybrato Mukherjee, Rector of the university and DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst President welcomed our Head of Programs in his office for an exchange about upcoming events (top left). This was followed by a fruitful discussion with Christiane Biehl, Deputy Director division International Affairs (top right). CEO Marc Kley, gave the group a tour of the Gateway Exzellenz Start-up Center der Universität zu Köln , shortly after the one-year anniversary of the center in its new location (bottom left).

Next stop: Bonn. On Monday and Tuesday, several meetings, workshops that identified creative ways to further our work (marketing, evaluation, target audiences, …), and conferences in the DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst headquarters in the former West German capital were on the agenda. A special “Thank you” to DAAD general secretary Kai Sicks for the warm welcome and discussion! A highlight with a special importance for the #DWIHNY and #DWIHSF was the DAAD KiWi Connect event “US #ResearchSecurity Strategy and the Role of #Transatlantic #ScienceCooperation” with Rebecca Spyke Keiser (National Science Foundation (NSF). Tuesday evening, Jan Lüdert, Ph.D. (bottom right with rector Xiaomeng Shen) celebrated 20 years of United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), a dear partner of the DWIH, recently shown during a joint event in December 2023 in New York.

On Wednesday, the #DWIHNY was part of the DWIH Network Day, an annual conference hosted by the DWIH Bonn Office - this year in Berlin - which brings together representatives from the DWIHs DWIH New Delhi, New York, German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) San Francisco, DWIH São Paulo, and DWIH Tokyo (German Centre for Research and Innovation Tokyo) for a joint event. Through short presentations, the attendees gained insights into the DWIH activities and learned first-hand about the range of services and opportunities to participate in this global network. In-depth discussions with the individual institutions' representatives - too many to be tagged here ;-) - offered personal exchange. We are already looking forward to the 2025 edition!

One day, two universities: On Tuesday, #DWIHNY Head of Programs Jan Lüdert, Ph.D., was welcomed at Freie Universität Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin respectively, two of our associate supporters and part of the Berlin University Alliance. After a lunch with the executives of the International House at FU Berlin with a conversation on various issues regarding #ScienceDiplomacy and the future of #transatlantic research collaboration, Jan visited the greenCHEM Chemical Invention Factory (CIF) at TU Berlin. Martin Rahmel and Stephen Leach introduced Jan into the center for #startups in Green #Chemistry. Later, he went on to BIFOLD - Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data, which conducts groundbreaking foundational research in #BigData Management and #MachineLearning. The last stop at the day, the ZEKI | Zentrum für erlebbare KI und Digitalisierung showed the great research on innovative technologies conducted at FU Berlin. Productive day with a lot of inspiration!

Our Head of Programs, Jan Lüdert, Ph.D., is currently on a business trip through Germany. First stop: Berlin. On Monday, he met different representatives of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, one of our esteemed associate supporters. They shared insights on their USA activities, scientific communication, research security, international mobility and Jan visited the Humboldt Start-Up Incubator to discuss synergies between the #DWIHNY and the HU Berlin. Thank you for this insightful day into all these university activities! Anna-Bettina Kaiser Britta Schumacher Yoan Villain Susanne Beer Pierre Steuer Amrei Vogel

In May 2024, the #DWIHNY has gotten two new associate supporters (cf. post last Monday). Prior to this, in April 2024, we already organized the successful event "Bridging the Gap: Safeguarding Online Freedom Across the Atlantic" with one of them, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, as well as other partners. Welcome to the network! Check out the link in the comments for the event page incl. video recording and photo gallery.

Recording available! The #DWIHNY side event at the 9th Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (#STI, #UN) for the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs), which illuminated the pathway for leveraging #ScienceDiplomacy (SD) in the context of global technological change while underscoring its critical role in shaping a future where innovation and cooperation converge to fulfill the 2030 Agenda: https://lnkd.in/eJpX48-c Our speakers were: Jan Lüdert, Ph.D., Martin Waehlisch 🌐🕊️, Ona Ambrozaite, and Leocadia Diaz Romero. #Tech4SDGs

The #DWIHNY had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Martin Setzkorn, Head of the Center of Digital Innovation and Head of Zentrum für Entrepreneurship Rostock at the Universität Rostock: https://lnkd.in/eKk4UQ2B The university has been one of two new associated supporters of the DWIH New York since May 2024. More about the second supporter to follow soon... Paul Westphal

📣 It’s finally online! 📣 Watch our #DWIHZeitgeist event "Science Diplomacy in Practice" on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/e2mH8wuh. Together with UAS7 - German Universities of Applied Sciences and American Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation the #DWIH hosted an expert conversation with Dale Medearis, Northern Virginia Regional Commission, Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh, Lars Ribbe, TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) and Ekkehard Strauss, Berlin School of Economics and Law. The four panelists discussed the relationship between #science #diplomacy and #applied #research on shared sustainability questions in Germany and the United States. See the link in the comments for the full recording. 📽