Offenburg:

The City of Offenburg  with its 59,000 inhabitants is located 25 kilometres East of Strasbourg and borders on the Rhine valley and on the Black Forest.The City - surrounded by vineyards and situated at the river Kinzig - has much to offer: a historical centre with a baroque scenery, various hiking and cycling trails, a variety of cultural events, gastronomy of Baden.Interesting places for excursions nearby: Europe-City Strasbourg, "Schwarzwaldhochstraße" (scenic route through the Black Forest), wine route in Baden, Black Forest open air museum, leisure park “Europa Park”

Offenburg City Highlights:

The University of Applied Sciences Offenburg, with its head office in Offenburg and a branch in Gengenbach, is a German university owned by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. It is one of the most important educational institutions in the southern Upper Rhine area. Currently, about 4,090 students are enrolled.

Funding Towards Nursing | Offenburg Conferences

The German nursing home industry rapidly grows due to the permanent increase of people in need of long-term care, in particular. Prime yields dropped by 75 basis points year on year Keen interest in German nursing homes and healthcare property among foreign Investors. The investment market for nursing homes and senior residences maintained its impressive growth course last year. Overall, a transaction volume of approximately 811 billion euros was registered in 2014, implying a 24-percent increase year on year. Fully 61 per cent of nursing-care facilities have job vacancies, with an average of 4.3 unfilled places per firm. However, according to a survey of businesses in the sector, only one-sixth of all nursing-care operations have recruited skilled workers from abroad.

Funding Towards Immunology | Offenburg Conferences

The Academy of Finland, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have agreed to provide funding to joint projects between Finnish, German and Chinese researchers in the field of immunology. The Academy’s funding contribution to Finnish researchers within the collaboration comes to slightly more than EUR 2 million. The research projects receive funding for three years. The objective is to promote immunology research cooperation between Finland, Germany and China.

Funding Towards Vaccines | Offenburg Conferences

German Research Foundation supports research project on vaccination behaviour. The German Research Foundation grants a research project titled "An interdisciplinary approach to explain and decrease vaccine hesitancy". The project under the lead of Robert Bohm and Cornelia Betsch will be funded for 3 years and receives funding of almost 400,000 Euro. The researcher will apply methods and theories of behavioural economics, psychology, and epidemiology to investigate human vaccination behaviour. They are going to conduct laboratory and online experiments as well as simulation studies.

Funding Towards Cardiology | Offenburg Conferences

This report studies the interventional cardiology market over the forecast period of 2013 to 2018. This market is valued at an estimated $894.7 million in 2013 and is poised to grow at a CAGR of 9.0% from 2013 to 2018. By 2018 the market worth for cardiology is $1,379.1 Million. Various new procedures and interventional devices are being developed and launched in the market, which is a major reason for the rapid growth of this market. Companies are heavily investing in R&D, to develop new and advanced devices that cater to the unmet needs of pediatric patients.

Funding Towards Chemistry | Offenburg Conferences

The chemical and pharmaceutical industry is Germany’s third-largest industrial sector in terms of revenues. It produces a wide range of products, including fine chemicals, specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, inorganic chemicals, synthetic materials, agrochemicals and fertilisers, laundry and cleaning agents, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, paints and adhesives. With revenues of €190.8 billion in 2014. Revenues from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry constitute nearly 11 percent of the total revenues in Germany’s processing industries. According to VCI, over 90 percent of Germany’s more than 2,000 chemical companies are small and medium-sized enterprises.

Funding Towards Engineering | Offenburg Conferences

Electronics has become the basic need of a human being in day to day life. According to a new market report the electronics market is estimated to grow at 10.5% (CAGR) from 2014 to 2020 and it is estimated to reach $40.2 billion by 2020. Wireless communications over the five years to 2014, revenue is expected to grow an annualized 4.2% to a staggering $1.5 trillion. GTM Research forecasts the progressive value of the smart grid market to surpass $400 billion by 2020.

Funding Towards Neuroscience | Offenburg Conferences

Research at Non-University Research Institutions they are spending annual research budget of 1.9 billion euros, 66 institutes and more than 22,000 employees. The Leibniz Association is an umbrella organisation of 89 research institutes. The annual budget amounts to 1.4 billion the Helmholtz Association is Germany’s largest scientific organisation. Annual budget of approximately 3.76 billion euros.

Offenburg Universities:

The University of Applied Sciences Offenburg

RWTH Aachen University
Technical University of Braunschweig
Hochschule Mainz University of Applied Sciences
Rhine-Main Universities alliance
Graduate School of Excellence Materials science in mainz
Mainz Catholic University of Applied Sciences
Leland Stanford Junior University
Translational Oncology University Medical Center
University of Medical Center Mainz
Institute of Applied Structure and Microanalysis
Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Institute of Dental Material Sciences and Technology
Institute for the History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Medicine
University Hospital Mainz
Hochschule Mainz University of Applied Sciences
University of education Superior school of pedagogy
Minot State University
University of Konstanz
Ludwigsburg University
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Center for Industrial Mathematics
University Medical Health Sciences Bremen
Bachelor of Arts in Integrated Social Sciences

Offenburg  Associations:

Alumni groups, alumni societies and friends associations

Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT)

International Association for Pharmaceutical Technology

The European-African Hepato Pancreato-Biliary Association

Vanda Ridley, Communications Manager, Down's Syndrome Association

Physicians' Association Of Mainz

Association of Seasonal Influenza

Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF)

German Network for Evidence Based Medicine

German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

German Pediatric Association Condemns Circumcision

Germany - AEPC Association for European Paediatric Cardiology

German Society Of  Cardiology

German Ophthalmological Society

German Society Of Ophthalmology

German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie, VDA)

The German Nurses Association

Aqua Society

German Nutrition Society (DGE)

German Dietitian Association

Society for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology - kinderkrebsinfo.de

German Society Of Haematology And Oncology

German Dental Association

German Association Of Dental Implantology

German Dental Council

Pharma And Biotech Companies in Offenburg:

BioNTech
Ganymed Pharmaceuticals
Orgentec Diagnostics
Vanrx Pharmasystems
Galantos Genetics
Plunkett's Biotech & Genetics Industry Almanac
SCHOOT Optical Materials & Processing
HWS-Labortechnik Mainz
Jenaer German Glassware
ASPIRAS Project Consulting in Pharma and Biotech GbR
Mega Skincare Biotech Manufacturing CO LTD.
Mainz, Rheinland-Pfalz Companies
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
Robert Bosch Gmbh Automotive
Alfa Aesar Gmbh & CO KG - Research Chemicals & Metals
Edgar Ganz rolladenbau
Linder & Aulenbach (steel and metal)
Roha drug gmbh
Take air medical handels-gmbh
Ernst A. W. handle pharmaceutical preparations
Medilog Handelsgesellschaft mbH
Omnilab-laborzentrum gmbh & co. Kg
Scarapharm chemical and pharmaceutical products company limited hafting

Conference in Offenburg:

International Congress of the International Academy of Pathology and 28th Congress of the European Society of Pathology 25 Sep 2016 - 29 Sep 2016 Cologne, Germany

Annual Meeting of the German Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health 07 Oct 2016 - 08 Oct 2016 Bonn, Germany

General medicine Refresher Leipzig 02 Nov 2016 - 05 Nov 2016 Haus Leipzig,Elsterstraße 22, 04109 - Leipzig, Germany

Congress of the German Continence Society e.V. 04 Nov 2016 - 05 Nov 2016 Cologne, Germany

Diabetes Refresher , Berlin  18 Nov 2016 - 19 Nov 2016 Adlershof con.vent . - Event Center ( Bunsen , Germany

AMP Global 2017, Global Congress on Molecular Pathology 03 Apr 2017 - 05 Apr 2017 Berlin, Germany

Homeopathic World Medical Assembly in 2017 14 Jun 2017 - 17 Jun 2017 Leipzig, Germany

HOW TO CLOSE THE LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE November 18, 2016 - November 19, 2016 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Basic Course echocardiography Berlin January 11, 2017 - January 14, 2017 Berlin, Germany

Basic Course echocardiography Leipzig January 18, 2017 - January 21, 2017 Leipzig, Germany

Basic Course echocardiography Munich February 8, 2017 - February 11, 2017 Munich, Germany

19th  Heart Medicine 2017 - 46th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and 49th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Pediatric Cardiology February 11, 2017 - February 14, 2017 Leipzig, Germany

Aufbaukurs echocardiography Leipzig 01 Mar 2017-04 Mar 2017 Leipzig, Germany

Course Transesophageal Echocardiography November 24, 2017 - November 25, 2017 Bad Nauheim, Germany

Cell & Gene Therapy Europe 21 Sep 2016 - 22 Sep 2016 Berlin, Germany

EMBO Conference — Advances in stem cells and regenerative medicine 23 May 2017 - 26 May 2017 Heidelberg, Germany

Scientific Annual Meeting of the German Society of Orthodontics 14 Sep 2016 - 17 Sep 2016 Hanover, Germany

Annual Meeting of the Regional Association of Berlin-Brandenburg the DGI ev  05 May 2017 - 06 May 2017 Berlin, Germany

Immunotherapy Europe 21 Sep 2016 - 22 Sep 2016 Berlin, Germany

Oncology - profession or vocation ? 2. Autumn school for medical students in 2016 22 Sep 2016 - 23 Sep 2016 Berlin, Germany

2nd EACR Conference on Goodbye Flat Biology: Models, Mechanisms and Microenvironment 02 Oct 2016 - 05 Oct 2016 Berlin, Germany

CME River Cruise - Rhine Getaway Featuring Contemporary Multidisciplinary Management of Breast Cancer 26 Oct 2016 - 02 Nov 2016 Cologne, Germany

Hematology / Oncology Refresher , Berlin 04 Nov 2016 - 05 Nov 2016 Adlershof con.vent. - Veranstaltungszentrum (Bunse, Germany

Oncological week 2016 - NGA Winter talks 2016 18 Nov 2016 - 19 Nov 2016 Tübingen, Germany

28th EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics 28 Nov 2016 - 02 Dec 2016 Munich, Germany

EMBL-Cancer Core Europe Conference: Cancer Immunotherapy 02 Feb 2017 - 04 Feb 2017 Heidelberg, Germany

19th International AEK Cancer Congress 01 Mar 2017 - 03 Mar 2017 Heidelberg, Germany

7th Annual Advanced Automotive Battery Conference Europe January 30, 2017 - February 2, 2017 Mainz, Germany

Tourist Attractions in Offenburg:

Ursula pillar

Ritterhaus

Mikwe (Jews' bath)

Zwinger Park

Billet Palais in the Buergerpark

Neptun's and other fountains

Koenigshof

Salmen

Aenne Burda Stift

Vinzentius Garden and Lapidarium

Archway

Oelberg (Mount of Olives)