Recent and Upcoming News and Events
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RLS-Sciences Spring Newsletter 2025 online
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RLS-Sciences Autumn Newsletter 2024 online
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RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2024
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RLS-Sciences Summer 2024 Newsletter now online
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New Global Aerospace Campus online course: Space Exploration
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Modules include:
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Credit: Munich Aerospace, 2024
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RLS-Sciences Digital Week 2024
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RLS-Sciences Explore Session: Space, Earth, and Health
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Previous News and Events
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RLS-Sciences Spring 2024 Newsletter now online
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Launch of the RLS-Digital Health White Paper: Federated Learning and Analysis for Collaborative Research in Healthcare at a National and International Scale
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RLS-Sciences Winter 2023 Newsletter now online
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RLS-Sciences Funding Workshop: Spotlight on Québec
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Partners were also taken through a live demonstration of the RLS-Sciences Funding Database, which showcased open calls of interest for the five RLS-Sciences research groups, including multilateral funding opportunities, such as those from Horizon Europe and international cooperation calls from funding agencies like FAPESP and DFG. Bilateral calls such as the BayLAT-FAPESP Workshops for Early Career Researchers were also among those showcased out of the funding database, as well as the new SPRINT mobility call.
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Partners from six regions joined for the workshop. Photo Credit: WKS Bavaria-Québec/Alberta/International 2023
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Drawing on the diverse experiences within the RLS-Energy Network, a panel discussion moderated by RLS-Sciences Vice President Sao Paulo João Azevedo comprising researchers who have applied for funding with RLS-Sciences partners showcased different models and best practices for combining different funding opportunities. They shared challenges faced including how to manage different deadlines when combining different funding programs for the same project, the need to create linked but independent partner activities for different funding programs, and navigating complex program requirements with many partners. They also shared the value of communicating directly with funding agencies to save time, starting as early as possible, and asking for help – including within the RLS-Sciences network.
Review the programme here.
The workshop recording is available in the RLS-Sciences Resource Library.
Review the programme here.
The workshop recording is available in the RLS-Sciences Resource Library.
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2023 RLS-Sciences Digital Week
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Munich New Space Summit 2023
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From 15-17 May, Munich Aerospace is hosting the Munich New Space Summit 2023. The conference will explore the topic of "new space" together with representatives of space agencies (ESA, NASA), as well as industry, research, and government. Planned discussions will cover a comprehensive range, including new space strategies at the national and international levels, commercial innovation from the startup to the SME to the big industry level, regulatory and legal aspects, and state-of-the-art research projects. The conference will take place in person at the Ludwig Bölkow Campus, just south of Munich.
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Image Credit: Munich Aerospace, 2023
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RLS-Sciences Spring 2023 Edition Newsletter Online
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Canadian Prime Minister visits UQTR Hydrogen Research Institute
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne visited the Université du Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR) Hydrogen Research Institute (IRH) on 18 January. The Prime Minister and Minister Champagne met with Professors Kodjo Agbossou, Bruno G. Pollet, Sousso Kelouwani and Loïc Boulon, who showcased ongoing research on green hydrogen, fuel cell development, energy storage, and electrical network optimization.
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Photo Credit: UQTR, 2023
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To support discussions of specific research projects, the professors were accompanied by 15 graduate students and further colleagues, including UQTR president Christian Blanchette and RLS-Energy Network Lead Scientist, Prof. Simon Barnabé.
Read more here (French-language article).
Read more here (French-language article).
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RLS-Sciences Autumn Edition Newsletter Online
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Professor Klaus Schilling receives Bavaria's Constitution Medal
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RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2022
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First international online course launched by the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus
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RLS-Sciences Spring Edition Newsletter online
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RLS-Sciences April Digital Week 2022
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Bavarian Minister Huml presents funding for Bavarian small satellites
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RLS-Sciences Winter Edition Newsletter Online
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RLS-Sciences at the 10th Regional Leaders Summit, hosted by Upper Austria
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First RLS-Digital Health Initiative Workshop
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Mobility funding programs for senior and young researchers reopening
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RLS-Global Aerospace Campus at MTL Connect 2021
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RLS-Sciences Summer Special Newsletter Online
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RLS-Sciences selected as case study by OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation
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RLS-Sciences at INGSA 2021
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New publication from the RLS-Energy Network on smart campuses
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According to the abstract, "seven categories of smartness: smart building, smart environment, smart mobility, smart living, smart people, smart governance and smart data. The main open questions and challenges regarding smart campuses are presented at the end of the review and deal with sustainability and energy transition, acceptability and ethics, learning models, open data policies and interoperability."
Download the paper (open access) here. |
Graphic depiction of the seven identified categories of smartness for smart campuses.
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RLS-Sciences Online Conference 2021
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From Monday to Thursday (14 to 17 June), one of the 4+1 research groups - Global Aerospace Campus, Energy Network, Small Satellites and the RLS-Expert Dialogue on Digitalization with the RLS-Digital Health Initiative - met each day. On Friday (18 June), the entire RLS-Sciences network was invited to a joint interdisciplinary session which included reports from the 4+1 research groups, a panel discussion, and contributions from the political and science management levels of RLS-Sciences. Over the five days, over 140 participants joined, representing all seven RLS partner regions.
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Photo Credit: WKS Bayern-Québec/Alberta/International and Véronique Baril, Ministry of Economy and Innovation of Québec
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Read a summary of the RLS-Sciences Online Conference 2021 here.
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New publication: The Role of Renewable Energy in Regional Energy Transitions
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As mandated by the RLS Heads of Government in 2018 in Québec, the RLS-Energy Network is working on identifying best practices for regional energy transitions. The publication builds on the existing work of the Energy Network, including the 2018 Monitoring Report which aggregated key data on renewable energy in the regions, as well as the SWOT Analysis Technical Report, which was completed in 2020. Throughout the evolution of the work, key connections have been maintained with the political level of RLS-Sciences.
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The Monitoring Report was presented to the Heads of Government at the 9th Regional Leaders Summit in Québec, and a summary of the SWOT Analysis Technical Report was presented at the RLS Virtual Symposium on COVID-19. The publication in Sustainability is in continuity with these efforts, as it includes recommendations for policy makers.
Read the paper here (PDF) or here (online version).
Read the SWOT Analysis Technical Report here (PDF).
Read the paper here (PDF) or here (online version).
Read the SWOT Analysis Technical Report here (PDF).
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Space Safety e-Learning course now open for registrations
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RLS-Sciences Panel on the main stage at MTL Connect
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Global Aerospace Campus releases teaser trailer for upcoming online course "Urban Air Mobility"
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RLS-Sciences at the RLS Virtual Symposium on COVID-19
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Global Aerospace Campus releases “Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space” as MOOC
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The RLS-Sciences Global Aerospace Campus project aims to strengthen the specialized training of aerospace professionals in the RLS partner regions. This includes in-person components, such as the Global Aerospace Summits, and virtual components, such as the first eLearning course from Bavaria on digitalisation and aeronautics. Now, in an expansion of the virtual training, the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Global Aerospace Campus has been released in cooperation with TUM and Munich Aerospace.
The course, “Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space” went live on Monday, 14 September 2020. |
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RLS-Energy Network at the Forum Econogy
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Nineteen RLS-Energy Network young researchers at the World Sustainable Energy Days 2020
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Forum Munich Aerospace lecture with Prof. Klaus Schilling on mini-satellites
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RLS-Energy Network meets in Québec for workshop with RQEI
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Global Aerospace Campus on YouTube
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The channel also includes full lectures from the Forum Munich Aerospace, including the inaugural lecture by Prof. Xioxiang Zhu, German Aerospace Center and the Technical University of Munich, on AI and Earth observation. Forum Munich Aerospace is a joint lecture series by the Technical University of Munich, Munich Aerospace, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt and the Royal Aeronautical Society,
View the Global Aerospace Campus playlist here.
Register for the eLearning course, ''Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space'' here.
View the Global Aerospace Campus playlist here.
Register for the eLearning course, ''Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space'' here.
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Global Aerospace Campus launches first eLearning course:
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WSED 2020: Young Energy Researchers Conference
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Submissions have been invited from any scientific field (e.g. technology & engineering, economic and social sciences, architecture, law, arts, etc.) and must be in English only from researchers born after 1984. The two best contributions are honoured with the awards "Best Young Energy Efficiency Researcher" and "Best Young Biomass Researcher" and will receive 1,000 Euro each as prize money.
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Young researchers from the RLS regions have been strongly encouraged to apply. In 2019, the a total of seven young RLS-Sciences researchers from participated. The deadline application was 10 October, 2019.
Learn more about WSED and the Young Energy Researchers Conference here.
Learn more about WSED and the Young Energy Researchers Conference here.
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RLS-Sciences online funding database updated
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RLS-Sciences Conference 2019
From 27th to 31st May, the four RLS-Sciences groups met in São Jose dos Campos at the invitation of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The meeting gave the RLS-Sciences projects an key opportunity to meet in person to continue work and make further progress ahead of the 10th Regional Leaders Summit in Linz next year, as well as an opportunity to discuss RLS-Sciences developments overall.
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Researchers from across the partner regions and from all four RLS-Sciences themes met for five days at the National Space Institute (INPE) Integrated Testing Laboratory (LIT) campus. Each group had two days for internal working meetings, presentations, and brainstorming, with a third day being dedicated to inter-project exchanges, overall RLS-Sciences development discussions, and inputs from the scientific side for the next Regional Leaders Summit in 2020, in Linz, Upper Austria on the theme, ‘’Smart Regions’’. Participants were then invited to join technical site visits held over two days, including trips to the testing facilities of LIT, a Raízen ethanol plant, aerospace company Embraer, and the National Center for Research in Energy and Materials.
Throughout the conference, there were joint activities which brought all participants together. Researchers came together for a ‘’Smart Regions’’ session, which included inputs from each project. Young researchers from all four topics were given the chance to join an open challenge, created and supported by Simon Barnabé, Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, to brainstorm future innovative ideas for the region of São Paulo in the next decade. The young researchers presented the result, “Sãotellites” to all participants in the final session. |
Review the results of the Young Researchers Challenge, ''Sãotellites'', by downloading their presentation here.
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RLS-Small Satellites ''TIM'' Poster presented at 12th IAA Symposium in Berlin
From 6 to 10 May, 2019, the International Academy of Astronautics hosted its 12th Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation in Berlin, Germany. The RLS-Small Satellites group presented a poster on the ''Telematics International Mission'' or ''TIM''.
Review the poster here. Learn more about the 12th IAA Symposium here. |
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Celebration for small satellites success with ERC Synergy Grant for CloudCT
On 1 March, 2019, representatives from academia, government, and industry gathered in Munich to celebrate Prof. Klaus Schilling (Zentrum für Telematik), Prof. Ilan Koren (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot), and Prof. Yoav Schechner’s (Technion, Haifa) European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant for their interdisciplinary project, ‘’CloudCT’’. Over 70 guests attended the celebration at the invitation of the Scientific Coordination Office (WKS) and the Bavarian Research Alliance.
CloudCT builds upon longstanding small satellites research programme Prof. Schiling conducts in Würzburg with the ‘’UWE’’ and ‘’NetSat’’ series, as well as the international experience within the multilateral RLS-Small Satellites project with the ‘’TIM’’ series. Now in CloudCT, the principal investigators and their teams will capture unique data about clouds through advanced computer tomography using a formation of ten small satellites. The aim is to improve climate modelling. The celebration began with a video message from Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of the European Research Council. Then, Judith Gerlach, Bavarian Minister for Digitalisation, spoke about the linkages between digitalisation and future technologies such as pico-satellites. Guests then heard a short history of research cooperation between Israel and Germany from Sandra Simovich, Consul General of the State of Israel in Munich. The keynote address was given by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Sextl, who provided guests enlightening and humourous insights into the career and successes of Prof. Schilling, as well as Prof. Koren and Prof. Schechner. The researchers themselves then jointly presented their project, giving guests an opportunity to understand the need for an interdisciplinary approach and how each field will advance through this research. |
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Young Energy Researchers Conference
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Presentations:
Biomethanation of tannery sludge: Optimisation of initial pH and temperature and evaluation of kinetics (Mpofu et al.) Associated conference paper available here. Design and Economics of an Advanced Biomass Processing Depot: Case Study in Southern Quebec (Lemire) Associated conference paper available here. Posters: Used lithium ion battery: State of health data for its second life (Sighart, Singh, Poisl, Pettinger) Piping renewable energy: Utilizing methanogen and organic waste (Bauer and Mock) |
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Zentrum für Telematik wins prestigious European Research Council prize
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The interdisciplinary German-Israeli project "CloudCT", with Prof. Klaus Schilling, has won a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant, endowed with a maximum funding of €14 million. A formation of 10 microsatellites will record the composition of clouds using computer tomography methods. It is important that about 10 satellites simultaneously capture the target area from different directions in order to generate a corresponding 3D image. This will provide atmospheric physicists with data to improve cloud modelling and enable better climate predictions. An error of about 1% in cloud properties contributes to deviations in climate predictions at about the same order of magnitude as all greenhouse gases from human activities.
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The award winners Ilan Koren (atmospheric physics), Yoav Schechner (computer tomography) and Klaus Schilling (formations from microsatellites) in front of the precision motion simulator of the Center for Telematics in Würzburg, where this research work is being prepared.
Photo Credit: Zentrüm für Telematik e.V, 2018
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In 2012, Prof. Schilling was awarded the ERC Advanced Grant "NetSat" in the amount of €2.5 million to demonstrate for the first time control techniques for a self-organizing, three-dimensional formation of satellites in orbit. Funded by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, this capability is already being used innovatively for Earth observation in the 3 smallest satellites of "TOM - Telematics earth Observation Mission". Within the framework of the Regional Leaders Summit (RLS), a further 9 satellites will be contributed to TIM by the partners as part of the RLS-Small Satellites project.
Read more here. (German)
Visit the Zentrum für Telematik website here.
Read more here. (German)
Visit the Zentrum für Telematik website here.
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9th Regional Leaders Summit
From 17 to 18 May, 2018, the Regional Leaders Summit met in Québec. This was the ninth meeting of the Regional Leaders Summit, and marks the second time the summit was held in Québec. The theme of the conference was ''Energy Transition: Towards a low carbon economy''. Surrounding and during the conference, RLS-Sciences and partners held events for each of the four R&D themes. Review a summary of these activities here.
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Review the Final Declaration on the energy transition here.
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RLS-Sciences Activities for 9th RLS Conference
Each meeting produced interesting contents, which are available for review on the thematic pages. On 17th May, 2018, Dr. Sebastian Goers presented the RLS-Energy Network to the RLS Heads of Government. Review his presentation here. |
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Cristina Cavalcanti, a student from São Paulo who's participation in RLS-Sciences was funded by FAPESP, presented her summer school team's work on the Cape Town water crisis to the Heads of Government. Please find a copy of the student team presentation here. Explanations about the summer school team’s works can be found here. For context on the water situation in Cape Town, please refer to information from our partner GreenCape on the water outlook and industry here, as well as additional information here and here.
On Friday, 18 May, 2018, each of the four RLS-Sciences themes were presented to the conference. To review the presentations, simply select the topic of interest below. Additionally, two students from the RLS-Energy Network Summer School presented the results of the group project proposals which were developed over ten days in Shawinigan and Québec.
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RLS-Energy Network releases first Monitoring Report
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RLS-Energy Network hosts inaugural international summer school
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Global Aerospace Campus launches own website and informational video
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New degree programme “Satellite Technology” at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
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1st Upper Austrian Stakeholder Workshop of the RLS Energy Network at Forum Econogy 2017
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RLS Energy Network at WindAc Africa 2017
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RLS-Sciences at IAUP 2017
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Global Aerospace Campus Summer Summit 2017 hosted by Munich Aerospace
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Prof. Broy on Industry 4.0 at Printemps numérique event
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On 6 June, 2017, Prof. Manfred Broy, founding president of the Zentrum für Digitalisierung Bayern (ZD.B) presented on Industry 4.0 at the invitation of Printemps numérique. The presentation was part of Printemps numérique’s #intersections VOL. 5: Industry 4.0 event, held at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal.
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Photo Credit: Printemps numérique 2017
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Zentrum für Telematik wins INNOSpace Masters Airbus Defence & Space Challenge 2017
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RLS-Small Satellites presented in Western Cape during Bavarian delegation visit
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During the visit of the Bavarian delegation of Minister of Economics Ilse Aigner to South Africa, a small satellite symposium was held at CPUT in Capetown. It focused on the joint “Telematics International Mission (TIM)” addressing a pico-satellite formation for Earth observation with applications in agriculture, as well as in volcano and in marine monitoring.
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Photo: Prof. Herman Steyn (Stellenbosch University) explains the South African pico-satellites to Minister Ilse Aigner and Prof. Klaus Schilling (Source: RLS-Small Satellites, 2017)
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RLS-Energy Network meets in Montréal
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RLS-Small Satellites meets in Würzburg
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8th Regional Leaders SummitFrom 14 to 15 July, 2016, the Regional Leaders Summit met in Munich. This was the eighth meeting of the Regional Leaders Summit, and marks the second time the summit was held in Munich, where the inaugural Regional Leaders Summit took place in 2002. Surrounding and during the conference, RLS-Sciences and partners held events for each of the four R&D topics. Review a summary of these activities here.
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Learn more about the conference by reading the Final Declaration.
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RLS-Sciences Activities for 8th RLS Conference
On 14th July, 2016, Prof. Dr. Klaus Schilling presented the RLS-Small Satellites project to the RLS heads of government. The four Bavarian project coordinators presented to the 8th RLS Conference on Friday, 15 July 2016. To review their presentations, simply select the topic of interest below.
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RLS-Small Satellites meeting followed by website launch
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Global Aerospace Campus holds Site Tour and Brainstorming Session at Ludwig-Bölkow Campus
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Expert Dialogue on Digitalization at Zentrum Digitalisierung Bayern
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RLS-Energy Network Panel held at iSEneC 2016
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RLS-Sciences Participants at Munich Aerospace Summer School 2016
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RLS-Sciences Participants at the Munich Aerospace Summer School 2016. From left to right: Bernd Kolar (Upper Austria), Aldo André Diaz Salazar (São Paulo), Paola Gonzalez Ramos (São Paulo), Wang Shu (Shandong), Jean-Sébastien Dick(Québec), Mingshan Chi (Shandong), and Ugo Chouinard (Québec). Not pictured: Greg Busch (Georgia), Jason Corman (Georgia). (Photo Credit: Aldo André Diaz Salazar).
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RLS-Sciences Meeting in Munich
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Energy Network Meeting in Québec
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Energy Network Meeting in Upper Austria
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Energy Network Second Generation Biofuels Workshop in Western Cape
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Renewable Energy Symposium in Western Cape
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RLS International Seminar on Biomass, Biogas and Energy Efficiency in São Paulo
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