As many Covid restrictions have recently been eased we are delighted to return to our office soon for offering our services in person and to reconnect with you.🍀

Telephone: +61272088119

E-mail: info@daad-australia.org

Teleconferencing: please contact us via e-mail, and our friendly staff will arrange an appointment and provide you with an access link.

At the beginning of October 2021, Michael Rieke joined the IC Team Sydney as a Communications & Marketing Advisor and Study & Exchange Consultant. Michael has a professional background in education and communications, having worked internationally for business enterprises and institutions in vocational training and cultural exchange.

Michael follows in his position Stefanie Herta who has worked in Social Media/Digital Marketing and Communications at the DAAD Australia. Stefanie has moved to Berlin to take up a master’s degree programme in psychology. We would like to thank Stefanie for her dedicated work at the DAAD IC Sydney and wish her all the best for her future.

The newly elected Executive Committee held its first Executive Committee meeting in early October and the Executive Committee members’ primary goal is to re-activate and broaden the DAAD network and connect the DAAD alumni and scholars with other German and Australian corporations and organisations across all sectors. Many Executive Committee members have been active DAAD members for many years and the President Claudia Nelson has been an active DAAD alumna and a key member of the DAAD network since the inception of the DAAD Information Centre office in Sydney.

The Executive Committee will launch a program and event series on Innovation, Technology and Leadership in early 2022 and will cooperate closely with industry, academia, and government partners.

The Australian DAAD Alumni Executive Committee is looking forward to re-connecting with its cooperation partners and actively broadening its network and connections. The Australian DAAD Alumni Association has elected its new Executive Committee for the next two years.

·     Claudia Nelson - President

·     Mamoon Haque - Vice President

·     Srinivas Nammi - Secretary

·     Catharina Vendl – Treasurer

·     Bobby Mathan - Public Officer

·     Michiko Weinmann

·     Ulrike Garde

We would like to encourage researchers to apply from specific areas/universities such as from Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory or regional universities in particular. If you are interested or know of any suitable candidate, please follow the link to the information about the Research Ambassador Program that includes what is expected in these roles together with the application procedure.

For further information, please contact the DAAD Information Centre here.

As part of the Australia-Germany Research Network (AGRN) branding and DAAD Research Marketing Program, the DAAD IC Sydney and the Germany Embassy Canberra hosted the virtual symposium ‘German-Australian Bioeconomy and Circular Economy – Tackling Global Challenges on a Global Scale’.

The symposium, held on 20 and 21 September 2021, was officially opened by the new Consul General of the federal republic of Germany, Axel Zeidler from Sydney and brought together researchers, policy makers and peak bodies from Australia and Germany in the field of Bioeconomy.

The two-day program offered keynote speeches and panel discussions by high-ranking experts from Australia and Germany. Topics such as Germany’s Bioeconomy Strategy, research-industry partnerships as well as

If you have missed the event, please feel free to watch the recordings of the event sessions here. 

This event will launch an audio adaptation of the remarkable diary Washing the Corpses of History, written at the time by German philosopher and poet Günther Anders, now performed by Swiss actor, Edgar Eckert. The audio presentation will be followed by a discussion about the German philosopher's work while he was exiled in Los Angeles.

Read the original translation of the diary in Modernism/Modernity and find out more about Günther Anders.

For registration with the Goethe-Institut, click here

Researchers Benjamin List from Germany and US-based David MacMillan received this year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of a catalyst which makes molecular construction easier, cheaper and greener. Their innovation is called ‘organocatalysis’ and is powered by a catalyst built on small organic molecules. The new catalyst is both environmentally friendly and inexpensive to produce. They are essential tools to create other molecules for all kind of materials we need in our daily lives.

Interview: Benjamin List talks with Adam Smith of Nobel Prize Outreach about the beauty of molecules

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 was awarded to three scientists, amongst them German meteorologist Klaus Hasselmann, whose field of research is climate change. Hasselmann developed methods for analysing which factors shape our global climate, respectively natural phenomena and human activities. His research outcomes and methods are used to show that the increased temperature in the atmosphere is caused by human emissions of carbon dioxide.

Interview: Klaus Hasselmann talks with Adam Smith of Nobel Prize Outreach about the urgent need for actions against climate change

Application Deadline: 2 November 2021 (for stays starting 01 October 2022, or earlier if a German language course is taken prior to the study programme)

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Application deadline: 16 November 2021 (for funding from April 2022).

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Application deadline: 30 November 2021 (for stays starting 01 October 2022, or earlier if a German language course is taken prior to the study programme).

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Application deadline: 1 December 2021 (for 2023 fellowships).

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Research in Germany October Newsletter

The new "Research in Germany" spotlight on the topic of global health has just been launched! Apart from this, learn more about the new WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence recently inaugurated in Berlin, discover the interactive Excellence Strategy map, and meet a computer scientist from Saudi Arabia doing his PhD at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn. And finally, of course, don't miss out on our current calls and upcoming events! Read on here

Join Freie Universität Berlin’s new Continuing Education Program online to further key competencies, like Intercultural Communication or Diversity Management. Young professionals and life-long learners will gain practical skills to set their CVs apart.

Further information is available here

Become a Data Analyst with the option to work and live in Germany. Acquire a German Master’s Degree fully in English, part-time, online. In a mix of live video lectures with your professors and on-demand eLearning material. In classes with max. 40 students.

Join us at HTW Berlin!

Further information is available here

Leaders for Future is an international internship program in Berlin for ambitious people from all over the world. The program is designed to strengthen your professional skills, to familiarise you with the international job market and provide you with networking opportunities.

Application deadline: 30 November 2021 

Further information is available here

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