Germany

that Bonn University has won the competition to host the new German Centre for Research into Neuro-Degenerative Diseases.

Europe’s fastest civil supercomputer, Jugene, was inaugurated by North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers at the Jülich Research Centre last week.

The New Year will see the launch of ten new collaborative research projects to be funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG.

The European Commission has authorized the Euro120 million that Germany intends to grant to start THESEUS, a research project for developing and testing new search technologies for the next generation Internet.