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COLLABORATION// The HZDR Research Magazine WWW.Hzdr.DE 40 41 partners through common points of intersection. Currently, this is the case with the HZDR. Although there is much more work ahead of us, which is why we're currently stocking up on our resources for that particular project. At the Genome Center, the use of the technology platform is already a lived reality. Both the DRESDEN-concept partners and the TU Dresden are conducting cutting-edge genome research at the Center on very expensive equipment. The Genome Center's strong appeal was confirmed when it recently received a donation by the Klaus Tschira Foundation. But there is also a successful smaller-scale project: our Dresden Science Calendar, which, at this point, lists all the various scientific lectures and events that are being offered! Last year, some 1,600 events were listed in that calendar. The website frequently gets more than 10,000 hits per month. What's next is an event calendar app! The association also includes Dresden museums and collections. What are some of the points of intersection and common goals that they share with science and research in Dresden? The cultural institutions that are part of our association are themselves doing research. Incidentally, that is one of the crucial criteria that must be met in order to become a DRESDEN-concept member. As such, it's especially about initiating research collaborations between different kinds of partners and organizing them or rather letting them know about different options. A central topic, for instance, is digitalizing our respective stocks. The partners could benefit from the exchange of equipment, methods, and experience. But there are other useful and successful collaborations as well: on the one hand, the preservation of cultural artifacts to prevent things like the decay of important papers and, on the other hand, using cutting-edge analytic methods to examine the clothes August the Strong wore that are kept in the armory as part of the Dresden state art collections, which has yielded very interesting results. As you can see, our cultural institutions are not standing next to science and research but right in the midst of them! ContaCt _DRESDEN-concept e.V. Dr.-Ing. habil. Manuel Joiko manuel.joiko@dresden-concept.de www.dresden-concept.de/ www.tu-dresden.de/exzellenz Photo: Claus Preußel Meet Manuel Joiko As of January 1, 2013, Manuel Joiko (age 59) is the new director of the DRESDEN- concept e.V. association. Born and raised in Leipzig, he studied information processing at the TU Dresden, where he was employed as a scientific associate. Since 1990, Joiko has occupied management level positions in different IT and management consulting firms as well as software companies including the Siemens Corporation, the SAP Group, as well as, most recently, Capgemini in Munich, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt/Main.

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