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InnoRegio-Competition: Berlin-<br />
Buch reached the final round<br />
In the competition announced by the<br />
Federal Ministry for Education and<br />
<strong>Research</strong> (Bundesministerium für<br />
Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) for<br />
structurally less developed regions in<br />
the new German states, the<br />
InnoRegio, the Gesundheitsregion<br />
Berlin-Buch e.V. reached the final<br />
round. In November 1999, an<br />
independent jury in Berlin chose from<br />
the 444 regions that had entered a<br />
total of 25 for this round and the<br />
Berlin-Buch health region was one of<br />
these. The winners have eight months<br />
to develop their ideas into workable<br />
projects and each of these regions will<br />
get up to 300 000 DM from the<br />
BMBF. The final decision will be<br />
made in Summer <strong>2000</strong> and the<br />
projects will be implemented before<br />
the end of 2005. The BMBF will<br />
provide 500 million DM in funding<br />
for this. The “Gesundheitsregion<br />
Berlin-Buch e.V.” hopes that this<br />
InnoRegio programme will provide<br />
their region with additional funding<br />
for the areas of Berlin-Buch, Karow,<br />
Blankenburg, and Heinersdorf as well<br />
as the Panketal Office in<br />
Brandenburg. In the next few years<br />
there will be a “future-oriented” total<br />
investment of almost a billion DM to<br />
help allow the region to become an<br />
attractive site for all aspects of<br />
healthcare on scientific, economic,<br />
artistic, and cultural grounds as well<br />
as being a provider of healthassociated<br />
services. The aim is to<br />
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attract jobs to the region and generate<br />
new employment opportunities. A<br />
group was set up to pursue this goal in<br />
July 1999 consisting of clinicians*,<br />
researchers from the <strong>MDC</strong> and the<br />
Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare<br />
Pharmakologie (FMP), biotech<br />
companies on the Berlin-Buch<br />
Campus, teachers, self-help groups<br />
and socio-cultural bodies as well as<br />
the Academy of Arts in Berlin-Buch<br />
and the Barnim district. The group is<br />
chaired by Jens Reinwardt, manager<br />
and head of the School for Health<br />
Professions e.V.<br />
*Representatives of the Berlin-Buch clinics,<br />
including the city, private sector, universities<br />
and other public bodies.<br />
Figure 14: Edelgard Bulmahn (3rd from right,<br />
front row), Secretary for Science and<br />
Education, congratulates the Berlin-Buch<br />
“InnoRegio” team on its success in the<br />
InnoRegio Competition set up by the Federal<br />
Ministry to develop East German regions.
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