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3 July 2009

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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance have signed an agreement to collaborate in the production of online videos of this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on chemistry, being held this week in Lindau on Lake Constance (www.lindau-nobel.de).

Produced by Nature Video, the videos will be hosted and made freely available on nature.com, one of the world's most popular scientific websites. The films will feature one-on-one or small group discussions between individual Nobel Laureates and young scientists, selected by NPG from among the 580 young scientists from all over the world participating in the 2009 Lindau meeting.

The formal agreement between the Lindau Foundation and NPG follows a successful pilot project last year where Nature Video produced and published online videos of the Nobel Laureate Meeting at Lindau on physics (freely available at www.nature.com/video/lindau). Nature Video is a new initiative that extends NPG's work with video into documentaries and films.

"We are delighted to be entering into this agreement with the Lindau Foundation" comments NPG Publishing Director David Swinbanks. "The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings are unique events, allowing young scientists from all over the world to meet and have close interactions and inspiring discussions with Nobel Laureates. The Nature Video films aim to capture the spirit of the meeting in audio-visual form and disseminate this information free of charge through nature.com. We hope they will be enjoyed by nature.com's global audience of scientists, science educators, science policy makers and a wider public audience interested in science".

"We at the Lindau Foundation consider Nature Publishing Group to be an ideal partner for the outreach and "mission education" of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and we are very happy to be working with them" comments Professor Wolfgang Schuerer, Chairman of the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance and Vice-President of the Council for Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

This year's videos, which will cover a panel discussion on global warming and sustainability as well as the discussions of young scientists with Nobel Laureate chemists, are being supported by Mars, Incorporated, a key benefactor of the Lindau Meetings.

"The Lindau Meetings are a unique opportunity to be part of the genuine interaction between the world's brightest scientific minds," said Pamela Mars. "Scientific outreach is key to the sustainability of the Mars business; therefore we are very pleased to support Lindau and Nature Publishing Group to extend the reach of the important scientific collaboration taking place here."

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About the Lindau Meetings:

The Meetings of Nobel Laureates in Lindau are organized by the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance for the scientific disciplines of physics, chemistry and medicine or physiology. Meetings of the Laureates of The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel have been held since 2004, permanently adding a fourth discipline to the list. Interdisciplinary meetings are held every five years as well. The next of these will mark the 60th Meeting, in 2010. This year, 23 Nobel Laureates meet in Lindau with 580 highly gifted young researchers from 67 countries at the 59th Meeting of Nobel Laureates. The meetings offer young researchers in the sciences an opportunity to delve in greater detail into topics relevant to their research fields in direct encounters with the authorities in their disciplines. In this way, the Meetings of Nobel Laureates contribute to the establishment of international networks of scientists. This year's lectures and discussions cover a broad spectrum indeed: from the biochemistry of the living cell to the analysis of surface reactions, to new strategies for synthesis. An area of focus is the topic of sustainability and the climate.

About Mars, Incorporated:

Mars, Incorporated is a family-owned company that produces some of the world's leading confectionery, petcare, food, gum and beverage products. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Mars employs more than 70,000 associates in 67 countries worldwide.

Mars entered into its engagement with the Lindau organization in 2007. In 2008, Pamela Mars was invited to join the Honorary Senate of the Lindau Foundation of Nobel prizewinners.

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