NEW DELHI: The German government announced the inauguration of the German House for Research and Innovation in New Delhi (DWIH New Delhi) on Saturday, at a function held at the German House in Chanakyapuri which will also serve as the provisional office of the consortium.
DWIH New Delhi is the fifth focal point for enhanced German academic and research cooperation, along with Sao Paolo, Brazil, Moscow, Russia, New York, USA and Tokyo, Japan.
DWIH New Delhi is one of the major pillars of the "Research and Academic Relations Initiative", jointly sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office (Auswartiges Amt - AA) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung BMBF), and is aimed at creating more synergy and joint initiatives with Indian partner organisations and universities for enhancing the academic and research cooperation between the two countries.
Member of Parliament and president of ICCR, Dr Karan Singh, was the chief guest on the occasion, who inaugurated DWIH New Delhi along with Dr Emily Haber, state secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany. DWIH New Delhi's 14 member organisations whose senior representatives were in India to attend the inauguration and pledge their support to the cause included Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (FhG), Free University Berlin, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), German Research Foundation (DFG), Heidelberg University - Heidelberg Center South Asia, Indo - German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC), Max Planck Society (MPG), RWTH Aachen - Technical University, Technical University Munchen, University of Cologne and University of Gottingen.
According to a press statement, speaking on the inauguration, professor Ing Matthias Kleiner, president, DFG, said: "Amongst all the five German Houses for Research and Innovation in the world, the New Delhi endeavour has attracted the highest number of German research organisations to be an integral part of it. Indian and German researchers have together been at the helm of the most advanced research. One such example is professor Herman Kulke who has been part of research teams that have worked on several aspects of Orissa in a DFG funded project with India partners from humanities, social sciences and other areas. In recognition of his achievements, the Indian Government has awarded him the order of the Padma Shri in 2010. There are countless such examples where India and Germany researchers are together creating wonders. In fact, Germany is the most productive collaborative research partner with India in science and technology, after the USA, and nearly 13% of all Indian publications in international collaboration have been shared with authors from Germany."
According to an analysis recently published by the DFG in cooperation with the renowned Indian researcher in bibliometrics Dr B M Gupta, the overall Indo-German scientific collaboration during 2004-2009 has grown at a remarkable annual average growth rate of 6.8%. Dr Torsten Fischer, the official coordinator of DWIH New Delhi, and also director of the German Research Foundation (DFG India Office) said: "Germany is a hotbed of cutting edge research with its almost 400 universities of which more than half are universities of applied sciences which offer students a more practice-oriented education based on scientific research. In addition, Germany has numerous non-university institutes, companies and Federal as well as State-run, or Lander, institutions. All in all, there are approximately 750 publicly-funded research institutions in Germany, besides the research and development centres run by industrial corporations. With initiatives such as the 'Internationalisation Strategy', the 'High-Tech Strategy 2020' and the 'Excellence Initiative', the Federal Government of Germany is investing more in globalising R&D now than ever before. On the other hand, India has some of the finest research talent in the world. With the inaugural of the DWIH New Delhi we are going to celebrate another milestone for the further enhancement of Indo-German research collaboration."
Meanwhile, professor Jorg Hacker, president of the German National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) added, "The fact that Germany has been India's long-standing partner in research cooperation is well regarded in the academic and scientific communities. Yet there is a need to create awareness among the common public on the exciting great innovations taking place in Germany. You all know about CERN's role in inventing internet and the research on God particle, but how many of you know that Germany is the largest funding contributor and a founding member of CERN? Or that your favourite audio format, MP3, was invented at a German institution?
The Max Planck Society (MPG) has produced as many as 17 Nobel Prize winners. The world's most sophisticated polar research and supply vessel, Polarstern, which has completed more than 50 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, is also from Germany. With the inauguration of DWIH, New Delhi now becomes part of the 'ivy league' of German science cooperation." The DWIH New Delhi inauguration was followed by the Indo-German Grand Science Slam at the Millennium Indraprastha Park, Sarai Kale Khan, New Delhi, where the audience got a chance to listen to scientific talks by DFG vice president, professor Frank Allgower from Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart along with Padma Shri professor N K Gupta of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize winner professor Sandeep Verma of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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