WELCOME
The school students' competition "Fuel Cell Box" 2010 on hydrogen and fuel cell technology has entered its final phase. State Secretary for Economic Affairs Dr. Jens Baganz presented the best 20 groups from the EnergyRegion.NRW competition with their construction kits at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The students are to use these kits to develop model boats run on fuel cells.
Professor Claus M. Schneider from Forschungszentrum Jülich is one of the winners of the 2009 Gay-Lussac/Humboldt Prize. The Director of the Institute of Solid State Research will receive the prize on Tuesday, 6 April 2010, in Paris in recognition of his scientific achievements and his work in promoting French-German scientific cooperation. The award, which includes prize money of € 25,000, is conferred annually by the French Ministry of Education and Research and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The Jülich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) is hosting this year’s "Umbrella Symposium for the Development of Joint Cooperation Ideas". Between 18 and 20 January 2010, around 50 scientists from Technion Haifa, RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich will attend more than 20 presentations followed by discussions on the topic of "Modelling and Simulation in Medicine, Engineering and Sciences" at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
On 14 January, an international measurement campaign began in the northern Swedish city of Kiruna. The campaign aims to clarify unanswered questions related to polar ozone depletion in the stratosphere. Measurement flights up to altitudes of 20 kilometres will provide researchers with data for global climate models, which they will then use for more accurate predictions of the future development of the ozone layer.