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With 11 new centres to begin at the start of 2011, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft brings the total number of its Collaborative Research Centres up to 238.

The German Research Foundation has opened a new era in collaboration between science and industry, signing a cooperation agreement with software manufacturer SAP.

The DFG Research Centre for Renewable Therapies at the Technical University of Dresden is to have its funding extended for a further four years.

The German research foundation (DFG) is to extend funding for its collaborative research Excellence Initiative institutions in Bremen, Karlsruhe and Würzburg.

An internet video portal on the R&D Excellence Initiative has been launched by the German Research Foundation to give a flavour of its top-level research.

Researchers can now get information about publishing via open access from a website funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.