Science & Technology

  • Health Research

    The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport (MOST) have been cooperating in the field of health research and especially in cancer research since 1976. In 2000, following approximately 25 years of cooperation, collaboration in biotechnology was directed away from basic research and targeted towards practice-oriented projects involving Israeli research groups and German companies.
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  • Environmental Research

    Cooperation in the field of environmental research has the longest tradition and goes back to 1974. It includes water technology, exploration of the global water circle and marine research.
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  • Culture & Society

    The two Minerva Centers for History at the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University play a central role in Germany and Israel's cooperation in the humanities and cultural sciences. Other main issues of the bilateral collaboration are law, migration and integration.
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  • Security Research

    Israel is a leading science nation and a high technology country. Due to the overall political situation and the constant threat of terrorist attacks against the population, Israel has in recent decades developed an extraordinary ability to react to new security challenges and threat scenarios in a quick and flexible manner.
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  • Further Fields

    Beside the main focuses of cooperation, almost all natural sciences and technological research areas are part of the bilateral collaboration between Germany and Israel. There is also an intensive cooperation in the field of vocational training.
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