Science & Innovation Links
Below you will find some links to British and German organisations who have an interest in S&I issues.
UK Government
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Department of Health (DH R&D)
Department for Innovation,Universities and Skills
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Research & Development Tax Credits
Guide to the Organisation of Science, Engineering andTechnology
>Support For International Science, Technology and Engineering Research
UK Government Policy Documents
White Paper "Innovation Nation" (PDF)
Science Budget 2008/9 - 2010/11 (PDF)
UK Science Funders
Arts and Humanity Research Council (AHRC)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences ResearchCouncil (BBSRC)
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Engineering and Physical Sciences ResearchCouncil (EPSRC)
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
UK Universities
Higher Education and Research Oportunities in the UK (HERO)
UK Higher Education Institutes
Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008)
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)
Professional Bodies and Learned Societies
The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
The Engineering Council - EC (UK)
Foundation for Science and Technology
The BA (British Association for Advancement of Science)
UK Charities
Association of Medical Research Charities
UK S&I Statistics
SET Statistics (Science, engineering and technologyindicators)
German Federal Government
German Federal Government
(Bundesregierung; links to all Federal Ministries & the Federal Chancellor’s Office)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
(Bundesministerium für Bildung and Forschung, BMBF)
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
(Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie, BMWi)
Federal Ministry of Health
(Bundesministerium für Gesundheit, BMG)
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
(Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, BMU)
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
(Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz, BMELV)
German Bundestag
(Lower House)
German Research Organisations and Research Funding Organisations
German Research Foundation
(Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
Fraunhofer Society
(Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, FhG)
The Hermann von Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres
(Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren, HGF)
Max Planck Society
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)
Leibniz Association
(Leibniz Gemeinschaft, WGL)
The German Federation of Industrial Research Associations “Otto von Guericke”
(Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen "Otto von Guericke", AiF)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
(Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)
German Science Council
(Wissenschaftsrat)
Universities
Online Directory of Higher Education Institutes in Germany
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
/H2>BITKOM German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media
(Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und Neue Medien e.V.,BITKOM)
German Association of Biotechnology Industries
(Deutsche Industrievereinigung Biotechnologie, DIB)
Associationof Research-based Pharmaceutical Companies
(Verband Forschender Arzneimittelhersteller, VFA)
Federal Association of the German Pharmaceutical Industry
(Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie e.V.)
acatech - Council for Engineering Sciences at the Union> of the German Academies of Science and Humanities
The German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association
(Zentralverband Elektrotechnik und Elektronikindustrie)
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Clusters
German Bioregions
(BioRegios)
German Innovation Regions
(InnoRegios)
Networking for Innovation
(Kompetenznetze)
