Boost Taiwan and Germany technology cooperation

Taiwan invites German researchers to cooperate on science2011/07/11 16:27:48 Berlin, July 10 (CNA) A delegation, composed of Taiwan's National Science Council (NSC) officials, has visited technology research centers and academic organizations in Germany in recent days, with the aim of promoting further technology cooperation between Taiwan and Germany. The delegation, led by NSC Minister Lee Lou-chuan, first visited the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) at Heidelberg. The center's Professor Harald zur Hausen was the 2008 Nobel Prize winner for Medicine. He also won the 2011 Dr. Tu Tsung-ming Outstanding Research Award, the highest prize Taiwan's government bestows to foreign scholars. Lee invited Prof. Hausen to attend the award ceremony scheduled for next year. The NSC signed a cooperation with Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) to establish the Dr. Tu Tsung-ming award in 2007 with the aim of increasing bilateral cooperation in the sciences. The group also paid a visit to Achim Bachem, chairman of the Jich Research Center. The center is one of the largest interdisciplinary research centers in Europe, and has closely cooperated with Taiwan. The research center will assemble a delegation to visit Taiwan this September. During a visit to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which has signed many agreements with the NSC, Lee met with DAAD's Secretary General Dorothea Lueland. Lee expressed his hope that Taiwanese research groups can conduct exchange programs with Germany's top universities in the future. Lee also visited the German Aerospace Center (DLR). He thanked Johann-Dietrich Wooerner, chairman of DLR, for his institution's aid to Taiwan to help the island develop satellites. He also pointed out that Taiwan's satellites have provided obervations about weather and natural disasters to research centers around the world, and he will be happy to see more cooperation with Germany.