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Bi- and multilateral cooperation in education and research

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  Cooperation with European Countries

  Cooperation with European countries is one of Germany's top priorities. A major part of this cooperation is multilateral and aims to actively shape the European Research Area. Bilateral cooperation focuses on establishing and developing partnerships between stakeholders in the research community, facilitating coordination processes at all levels, and promoting the generation of synergy between projects and partners. Joint initiatives and the identification of topics that are of mutual interest contribute to European strategy development and to shaping the European Research Area.
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  Cooperation with CIS States

  Germany's cooperation with the successor states of the Soviet Union is based on traditionally close relations, which have been strengthened even further thanks to the close partnership between the EU and this region. This partnership has been achieved through the European neighbourhood policy and the special relations between the EU and Russia and Ukraine.
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  Cooperation with the Asian-Pacific region

  According to expert prognoses, China will be the world's largest economy within a few years, and India will be the third-largest in less than 20 years. The entire Asia-Pacific region is developing into a dominating force in science as well. Of course this development poses some risks, but it also offers numerous opportunities which we can only benefit from through intensive dialogue. The BMBF actively supports contact with this region through different measures in education and research policy.
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  Cooperation with the USA and Canada

  The USA is Germany's most important scientific and technological cooperation partner among all industrialized countries. Over 50 bilateral cooperation agreements have been concluded. They form the basis of the extensive network of German-American research projects. The key areas of cooperation are space flight (through the ISS) and environmental technologies. There are also successful partnerships in the area of medicine. Germany's cooperation with Canada focuses on biotechnology and nanotechnology. In future, the subject of sustainability will be integrated more closely into the collaboration.
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  Cooperation with Central and South America

  Germany has traditionally had close cultural, political, and economic ties to the countries in Central and South America, making this region an important cooperation partner. With the help of bilateral cooperation in the areas of education and research, the German Federal Government can maintain and expand the well-established relations with priority countries in Latin America in a targeted way.
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  Cooperation with the Mediterranean region and Africa

  Germany's main bilateral cooperation partners in this region in the fields of science and research are Israel, Jordan, Egypt and South Africa.
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