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CHINA Modern decentralized wastewater treatment for Guangzhou Without doubt, China is one of Germany’s most important trading partners. China’s massive industrialization has led to a huge rise in its energy consumption, while at the same time the water pollution is one of the nation’s greatest envi- ronmental challenges. Germany on the other hand is a world leader in the export of environmental protection products and water technology. In the spirit of the Fraunhofer mission to carry out applied re- search for the benefit of industry and society, a bilateral co- operation agreement was concluded between the Fraunhofer IGB and its Chinese Partner China National Electric Apparatus Research Institute (CEI), headquartered in the city of Guang- zhou in Guangdong province. Back in 2011, Professor Walter Trösch initiated a first pro- ject, which is currently proceeding under the leadership of Dr. Tosca Zech of the Environmental Biotechnology and Bio- process Engineering Department at the Fraunhofer IGB. The “Advanced wastewater treatment in Guangzhou” project in- volves developing a strategy for effluent disposal at the KINTE industrial park in Guangzhou. The project is focused on the adaptation of the DEUS technology developed at the Fraun- hofer IGB to the Chinese circumstances. The objective is the transfer of knowledge of this key IGB technology to the Chi- nese project partner CEI, and thus to open up the market for water and wastewater technologies “made by Fraunhofer”. The cooperation was intensified in 2012 by further high-rank- ing visits from the CEI to the Fraunhofer IGB and is intended to be extended to further topics such as the development of energy-efficient systems and bioenergy. FRANCE Les Rendez-vous CARNOT October 3–4, 2012, Lyon In October, a Fraunhofer IGB business development officer traveled to Lyon to take part in the Les Rendez-vous CARNOT meeting, France’s largest science forum where some 6000 exhibitors from science and research meet annually. Intensive discussions with representatives of Carnot institutes and the research funding organization ANR (Agence National de la Re- cherche) ensued. Attendance of the event had the aim of in- tensifying strategic cooperations with French partners and ini- tiating further bilateral projects against the background of 50 years of the Elysée Treaty. Fraunhofer-Carnot cooperation Thanks to funding by the BMBF and the ANR, a very success- ful cooperation has evolved between the Carnot-Institut CIRIMAT in Toulouse and the Fraunhofer IGB. It started with the BioCapabili project (page 62), in which the partners de- veloped biomimetic bone substitute material with antimicro- bial properties. The desire of the sponsors was not only to promote German-French cooperation, but first and foremost to align research to the current needs and applications of in- dustry. The project was concluded with very good results and received top marks from the experts drawn from science and industry to evaluate it. In order to continue successful, appli- cation-oriented collaboration in the future, the CIRIMAT and Fraunhofer IGB scientists launched the BIOCAPABILI Engineer- ing Cluster, a research alliance which has already attracted concrete queries and expressions of interest from various com- panies. www.biocapabili.com HIGHLIGHTS 2012 4 4 5 5 32