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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has hosted International Years of Science every year since 2007 with strategically important partner countries like China, Brazil and Russia as part of the German government's Internationalization Strategy. The aim is to strengthen long-term cooperation in education and research, be it through the expansion of , the initiation of research and development projects, support for vocational education and training, or by intensifying .