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Faraday meets Fraunhofer in Anglo-German
accord
The Prime Faraday Partnership has strengthened its European credentials by welcoming the Fraunhofer TEG, based in Stuttgart, as an associate partner.
The Prime Faraday Partnership, one of 24 Faraday Partnerships established by the UK Government to strengthen links between academia and industry via research and technology organisations, has recently strengthened its European credentials by welcoming the Fraunhofer TEG, based in Stuttgart, as an associate partner The Fraunhofer and Faraday Partnerships have a natural affinity
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both work closely with industry, while also maintaining close working relationships with leading universities and technical colleges.
There are also parallels between the Faraday and Fraunhofer in the scope of their respective technological expertise.
Where they differ however is their longevity.
The Fraunhofer Society has been operating in Germany for over 50 years, and has 57 institutes active in numerous technical fields.
In the UK however, the Faraday Partnerships are more in their infancy, having been established just over 5 years ago, but already there are 24 partnerships established covering a wide range of core research activities encompassing a wide variety of industrial sectors.
"Because of our similarities, the co-operation between Fraunhofer and Faraday is virtually self-evident", commented Harald Egner, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer TEG.
"Both organisations strive to use the results of their research and development activities to develop new products and promote technology transfer.
This partnership gives us the opportunity to exchange ideas, to learn form one another and to work together on a European level".
For Egner, this is a chance to stimulate potential joint efforts between the Faraday Partnerships and the numerous Fraunhofer institutes actively involved in the Prime domain - ie that of products with interdependent mechanical and electronic parts.
To facilitate this process, Egner has recently established a UK office at the Pera Innovation Park in Leicestershire, and sees this partnership as a pilot project.
Further collaborative arrangements between other Faraday partnerships and the Fraunhofer institutes will shortly be established.
Fraunhofer will be hosting an event at the Innovation Park in the autumn of this year to highlight the opportunities available.
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