Sino-German Mobile Communications Institute
The Sino-German Mobile Communications Institute (MCI) in Berlin is the first German - Chinese institute for communication and information technology in Germany.
It was opened in 2003 and is located at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications on the campus of the Technical University of Berlin .
Scientists from the Technical University are working together with Chinese research teams on the development of new transmission technologies and high-performance network technologies.
Applications for the next generation of cell phones are being researched at the Beijing sister institute, the Sino-German Joint Software Institute .