International Bureau of the BMBF

The International Bureau (IB) of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) implements, on behalf of BMBF, a wide range of international co-operation activities. The IB is part of the Project Management Agency at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), which is the largest funding agency working for the BMBF and other governmental bodies. It provides direct services to the Ministry and administers also BMBF support for German Universities, public research institutions and industries to identify and develop international links in strategic fields of mutual interest. IB is preparing joint research activities in strategic fields of common interest, basically linked to national and European research funding programmes. In addition, IB coordinates a number of accompanying measures to set up a framework for the stimulation of future co-operation in close co-operation with BMBF. International Bureau participates already in a number of EU-projects for setting up frameworks for international co-operation, e.g. SEE-ERA-NET (Western Balkan), EULANEST (Latin America) and CO-REACH (China) . IB is involved in all Inco-NET-Projects and co-ordinates the SEA-EU-NET (Inco-NET with South-East-Asia). 

IB of the BMFBF

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• 50 countries in bilateral cooperation programmes in S&T with IB of BMBF
• 10 millions euros annual budget for these programmes