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Transatlantic Science Partnerships

Meet-and-Greet with the German Research Foundation

DWIH San Francisco was delighted to support the German Reseach Foundation (DFG) at a lunch roundtable at UC Berkeley on December 5th, 2023. Diego Rivas, program manager of the San Francisco office, introduced the DFG to professors, administrators and postdocs and discussed funding opportunities for research in Germany.

Science Slam

Berlin Science Week 2023

DWIH San Francisco was delighted to support our Falling Walls Lab San Francisco winner, Teena Bajaj, from November 7-9th, 2023 at the Berlin Science Week! The week, coinciding with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, celebrates new “walls” that fall in relation to advancements in scientific discovery, knowledge, and cutting-edge innovation.

Webinar

How Innovation Supports Resilience in Higher Education

Among the key topics discussed at a webinar on November 8th on resilience in higher education were the U.S. and German systems, both regions’ approaches to handling crises, as well as design thinking. Moderated by Zahar Barth-Manzoori, Director of DWIH San Francisco and Benedikt Brisch, Director of DWIH New York, the event brought in Julia Schaletzky, Executive Director of the Harry Wheeler Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases (CEND) at UC Berkeley and Joann Halpern, Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute in New York. The speakers shared their thoughts and responded to questions from the online audience of around 100 people.

Focus Topic

Resilient Societies: The Bay Area’s Reinvention through Culture and Innovation

On October 10th, DWIH San Francisco held its signature event on Resilient Societies: The Bay Area’s Reinvention Through Culture and Innovation, where it focused on how art and culture foster innovation and how the unique mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area contributes to resilience. Moderated by Martin Rauchbauer, Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Zahar Barth-Manzoori, Director of the DWIH San Francisco, the evening touched on the Bay Area’s key strength — its ability to attract innovators from diverse backgrounds and how it brings people together to spawn new ideas. Panelists included long-term residents of the Bay Area, as well as more recent transplants who shared their experiences living in the Bay Area and how we should look to the future of the region we call home.

Transatlantic Partnership

UCSF-CAU Advances in Artificial Intelligence & Novel Imaging Methods

On October 5th, DWIH San Francisco was delighted to support an international conference that convened researchers from UCSF Radiology and Biomedical Imaging; Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany (CAU); and UCSF’s Hyperpolarized MRI Technology Resource Center (HMTRC). Participants heard from imaging experts on the latest advances in artificial intelligence and novel imaging methods.

Newsletter Special

Four Questions for Martin Rauchbauer

We had the pleasure of interviewing Martin Rauchbauer, who will be moderating our upcoming event on Resilient Societies: The Bay Area’s Reinvention Through Culture and Innovation. Martin, a senior Austrian diplomat currently on sabbatical, shaped the emerging field of tech diplomacy, engaged in transatlantic tech diplomacy and digital human rights. He also developed digital humanism as a strategic focus of Austrian foreign policy.

Science Diplomacy

Science Communication – Changes in the Relationship between Science and Society

Open access, integrity in research, and best practices for communication were among the array of topics explored at the Symposium on Science Communication, which took place on Friday, September 15th at the University of California, Berkeley. Moderated by Julia Schaletzky, Executive Director of the Harry Wheeler Center for Emerging & Neglected Diseases (CEND) at UC Berkeley, the symposium began with a keynote by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman (Medicine, 2013). Consul General Oliver Schramm also greeted attendees, highlighting the importance of science communication for the development of our society.

Transatlantic Cooperation

New Partnership Between DWIH San Francisco and BSI

The DWIH San Francisco is delighted to announce that the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), an agency of the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), has joined our network of supporters. We held a ceremony on Friday, September 8th at the residence of the German Consul General Oliver Schramm to mark the start of many fruitful years of cooperation in the Bay Area.

Academic Conference

DWIH SF @ American Chemical Society

Last week, DWIH San Francisco had a shared stand with the German Research Foundation (DFG) and participated at the 2023 American Chemical Society Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Nearly 15,000 people from all over the world registered for the conference.

DWIH

Successful DWIH Network Day in Bavaria: International Cooperation in Focus

Munich, June 22, 2023 – The DWIH Network Day took place in Munich based on the joint initiative of the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (BAYLAT) and the central office of the German Centers for Research and Innovation (DWIH) in the DAAD.