The National Aviation Conference in Hamburg, a reception for young scientists, and a visit that was all about 100 years of welding, milling, and surface coating in Germany. The Federal Chancellor's week in pictures.
Hamburg, 25 September 2023: Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended the opening of the National Aviation Conference on Monday. According to Scholz, air travel and air freight are essential when it comes to positioning Germany as a centre of advanced technology as well as for the German economy.
In terms of climate-friendly technologies, he said, the German aviation industry was already taking the lead. "We have the evidence to show that manufacturing climate-neutral fuels is also feasible in Germany," he added.
The Federal Government wishes to significantly boost the construction of affordable housing: Federal Chancellor Scholz and Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Building Klara Geywitz met with the Alliance for Affordable Housing, which represents 35 partners from the construction sector, trade unions, the housing sector, business development banks, politics, and tenants' associations.
Berlin, 26 September 2023: Federal Chancellor Scholz met with the award winners of this year’s national "Jugend forscht" youth science competition in the Chancellery on Tuesday. Two students from Berlin were awarded the special award for the most original project.
Experiments carried out by the two young researchers proved that the magnetic properties of graphite are temperature dependent. Scholz congratulated them for their commitment and for having the courage to acquire expertise in a complex subject that goes far beyond the school curriculum.
That evening, the Federal Chancellor delivered a speech at the annual reception event of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ: German Society for International Collaboration).
Berlin, 27 September 2023: The Federal Government wants Germany to continue to be a centre of industry but also to be carbon neutral in the future. The Federal Chancellor met with representatives of the chemical sector as well as the federal states to discuss reliable conditions for this transformation process.
Berlin, 28 September 2023: The Federal Chancellor met with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kazakhstan, at the Chancellery prior to his meeting with other Central Asian heads of state on Friday.
In the afternoon, the Federal Chancellor met for talks with Delphine Traoré, Managing Director of Allianz Africa and "CEO of the Year" 2022, at the Berlin Global Dialogue event. "We live in a multipolar world, which means that we need a totally new approach to global collaboration, sincere partnership agreements with, for example, African nations."
Government and business representatives from around the world come together at this dialogue event to discuss the future of the global economy in these changing times.
"A century of BMW motorbikes equates to 100 years of welding, milling, and surface coating in Germany." That evening, the Federal Chancellor offered his congratulations to BMW Motorrad on its 100th anniversary at the opening ceremony of the Motorradwelt event in Spandau, Berlin.