Transatlantic dialogue, practical and really down to earth

In a “German Canadian Concourse” (GCC) utterly a few things combine: thematic diversity, Transatlantic exchange, and a eagerness to allege a network in organizational terms, too. The substructure mill for a GCC was laid by an beginning by a Canadian and German embassies in 2002: Each year, 6 German and 6 Canadian managers from opposite fields explored Germany and Canada respectively on investigate tours, met decision-makers from a worlds of politics, business, culture, scholarship and a media in a horde country, and so determined a tolerable Transatlantic network. One of them was Matthias Mück, who was doing a doctorate during a University of Toronto in a margin of mathematical production and took partial in a programme in 2007. “After a investigate transport programme came to an finish in 2009 we founded a ‘Canada Meets Germany Alumni Forum’ for a 70-odd alumni, and this spawned a ‘Canada Meets Germany Network e. V.’”, he comments.

“German Canadian Concourse”

Today, a association’s categorical importance is on a “German Canadian Concourse”, that given 2012 has once a year supposing a special forum for common exchange. The contention comes underneath a protection of a embassies of both countries and takes place in Berlin and in changing cities in Canada, debating a accumulation of stream and innovative themes – in genuine time: “The venues are bending adult probably by Internet livestream so that a discussions can take place on a truly Transatlantic basis. This format is utterly singular in a German-Canadian sell scene,” explains Matthias Mück. Moreover, margin trips to a partner organizations during both contention venues offer a adult to 120 participants an discernment into practices relating to a sold thematic focus. “Our idea is to use a symposia and a excursions to capacitate contention between German and Canadian team-work partners who differently would not be means to accommodate given a good stretch between them, and in this proceed allege new developments in both countries and try a intensity for start-ups,” Mück continues. “And we emanate space for complete networking.”

Matthias Mück© Canada Meets Germany Network e. V.

Creative cooperation

The operation of thematic fields lonesome is vast: In 2016, a concentration was on “ocean information analysis,” and a doubt addressed was how a information accessible on a oceans could be some-more good used for applications in logistics, infrastructure, energy, confidence and research, and so parent new business fields. A successful proceed to German-Canadian exchange, as a afterwards Canadian envoy Marie Gervais-Vidricaire emphasized as enthusiast of a conference: “Canada and Germany have a common shortcoming to minister to progressing a firmness of sea ecosystems and researchers on both sides of a Atlantic are creation critical swell in bargain a complexity of a oceans,” she said. “The German Canadian Concourse is an event to learn from any other and to boost transatlantic business, as good as investigate partnership and cooperation.”

Indeed, a latest German Canadian Concourse has given arise to new German-Canadian cooperation. For example, that between a Center for Ocean Ventures Entrepreneurship (COVE) in Halifax and a Ocean Technology Center (OTC) in Rostock. “Attending a GCC in Berlin in Nov 2016 was my starting indicate for carrying a closer demeanour on Canada. It became apparent that we share a same prophesy of tolerable use of a oceans,” says Uwe Freiherr von Lukas, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer-Institute for Computer Graphics Research, and who gave a display on his establishment during a Rostock OTC conference. Sheila Paterson, Chief Operating Officer of COVE, also appreciates a team-work that has resulted from a German Canadian Concourse. “The practical format for a TransAtlantic Symposium allows for limit appearance from businesses and innovators in both countries.”

Shared future

In 2017, a contention again offers a height for Transatlantic creation projects: In November, a participants will plead a infrastructure for unmanned atmosphere travel, and, as is standard of German Canadian Concourse, will do so from opposite angles. “We will be focusing on a applications of supposed drones,” says Matthias Mück. The bulletin will embody a required changes to a authorised regime for unconstrained drifting machines, a business prospects of a record and a opportunities for common cooperation. “Given a geographical size, Canada utterly literally offers a space for team-work contrast unconstrained drifting systems,” Mück emphasizes. “Germany and Canada share many industrial and systematic interests as regards a unmanned aerospace infrastructure and we wish to strew light on them.” 

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