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HIGHLIGHTS 2016 1 PROMOTING YOUNG TALENTS Facing the challenges of tomorrow today is an of ficial mot to here at Fraunhofer. Therefore, the Fraunhofer Institute Center Stut tgar t and Fraunhofer IGB are commit ted to promoting young scientist s. In 2016, there were various event s and initiati ve s at the Stut tgar t re s earch c ampus aime d at g et ting high - s cho ol s tud ent s interested in S T EM subjec t s (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic s) and to present career oppor tunities at Fraunhofer to student s majoring in life sciences. events and participants has been steadily increasing. In April 2016, 63 female students aged 10 to 16 came to the Girls’ Day at the Fraunhofer campus in Stuttgart. Fraunhofer IGB took part with guided tours on the topics “Tailored tissue from the laboratory” and “Nature’s own chemical plant”. www.stuttgart.fraunhofer.de/girlsday BOGY – Career and study orientation at grammar schools The Fraunhofer Institute Center Stuttgart offers numerous internships for high-school student every year as part of the BoGy program (Career and Study Orientation at Grammar Schools) of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. In this way, Fraunhofer wants to inspire young people for science at an early stage. The key requirement for a week-long BoGy internship is a special interest in natural sciences and engineer- ing. In 2016, a total of 14 BoGy interns came to the institute – 7 boys and 7 girls. www.stuttgart.fraunhofer.de/bogy Fraunhofer Talent School 1 At the Fraunhofer Talent School in Stuttgart, pupils aged 15 and older get a detailed insight into working and research- ing at Fraunhofer. The Stuttgart institutes offer their guests three-day hands-on workshops. At Fraunhofer IGB, pupils got immersed into the world of molecular biology. In the “CSI Stuttgart” workshop, they took on the role of investigators and solved an exciting criminal case by conducting DNA analy- ses themselves. Under the supervision of the research group “Functional Genomics”, the participants isolated DNA from their saliva samples and subsequently undertook molecular characterization. In this way, they created a genetic inger- print, which then allowed the “perpetrator” to be identiied. www.stuttgart.fraunhofer.de/talents Girls’ Day 2 The Girls’ Day aims at motivating young girls for a career in STEM professions, which are traditionally perceived as “typi- cally masculine”. To ight such prejudices and obstacles, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research launched the Girls’ Day as a nationwide action day in 2001. Since 2003, the Fraunhofer Institute Center Stuttgart has also been partici- pating in the Girls’ Day – every year, it offers a broad program with guided tours to the institutes. Since then, the number of 3 0