The Max Planck Society ASPERA National Day Hamburg, Germany

1. The Max Planck Society ASPERA National Day Hamburg, Germany

2. Advancing innovative and interdisciplinary research at the frontiers of knowledge Providing competitive research conditions for excellent researchers Promoting young researchers and international cooperation Devoted to basic research/open to application Mission The Max Planck Society

3. Basic research at the Max Planck Society • The Max Planck Society’s scientists work in selected areas, whenever these areas • can open up new directions for research • are not (yet) represented at universities • require special funding • must be set up for the especially long term • enable the training of specialised junior scientists

4. Facts and Figures of theMax-Planck-Society 12,434 staff members plus10,900 junior and guest scientists annual budget > € 1.3 billion

5. Locations of the 78 MPIs

6. Autonomy of Max Planck Institutes Each Max Planck Institute / Scientific Director: recruits its own personnel (incl. junior scientists) chooses its research structure (depart-ments/projects) determines its own research topics acquires third-party funds manages its budget chooses its collaboration partners, both foreign and domestic (other MPIs, universities, public research institutions, or industry) as well as the form of collaboration

7. Structure of a Max-Planck-Institute Scientific Management Scientific Advisory Board Head of junior research group Head of junior research group Director Dept. A Director Dept. B Director Dept. C Director Dept. D evaluates scientific performance and advises the institute. Rotating management duties I n t e r – I n s t i t u t i o n a l P r o j e c t s Board of Trustees Service facilities supports institute in its local and public relations. Library, Laboratories, IT Administration

8. Continual Scientific Renewal • Institutes undergo continual evaluation and adjustment of research areas and goals to meet international standards. • Institutes take up new research topics as a result of appointments or newly founded institutes. • Institutes or institute departments are closed • if research goal achieved, • if research suitably established at universities, and • if no suitable scientist available. • New programs or forms of organization are developed (e.g., research groups at universities).

9. Ex Ante Evaluation Ex Post Evaluation Others • •Establishing institutes • • Appointments • Program concepts • Concepts for • individual scientific • proposals • Regular Evaluation • Performed every 2 • yrs. by the scientific • advisory boards of • the institutes • Extended evaluation • every 6 yrs. • IMPRS • System Evaluations • commissioned by • donors and granting • agencies • Structure oriented presidential • committee • Internal analysis of • the activities and the • performance Peer Review Types of Evaluation

10. Research Planning & Evaluation Senate Senate Planning Committee President • projects • appointments • new institutes • shifts in focus • closures Presidential Committee Perspective CommissionAppointment Committee Section Institute Scientific Advisory Board Board of Directors Levels of Research Planning in the MPS

11. International Staff • 262 institute directors (October 2006), • including 72 foreigners (= 27.5 %) • coming from 24 countries • Almost 50% of doctoral students and 80% of postdocs are from countries other than Germany.

12. Research Partners Worldwide (2005) • 2,068 international projects including • 5,139 partners in 108 countries

13. Sections of the Max Planck Society • Chemistry, Physics, and Technology Section • Biology and Medicine Section • Human Sciences Section

14. Humanities and Social Sciences Section Cultural Sciences Social and Behavioural Sciences Jurisprudence Humanities Structures and legalities of human thought and actions – from the individual to the state system, in historical perspective and as a future outlook

15. Developmental Biology/Genome Research Immuno-/Infection Biology/Molecular Medicine Structural & Cell Biology Plant Research Neuro-Science Biology and Medicine Section Structure and function of the animate world from virus to man, from molecule to ecological system

16. Physics Astronomy Chemistry Materials Sciences GeologicalSciences Mathematics Chemistry, Physics and Technology Section Structure of the world and the universe atoms, molecules, materials and technologies complex proceedings and systems

17. Solar System Research Gravitational Physics (AEI) Radio Astronomy Chemistry Extraterrestrial Physics Astrophysics Astronomy Nuclear Physics Physics Locations of Astronomical Max Planck Institutes

18. Astroparticle Physics in the MPG H.E.S.S. Magic CRESST Detector Module Research Topics at the Institutes MPI for Physics, Munich neutrino astrophysics physics and astrophysics of weakly interacting dark-matter candidates phenomenology of high energy physics MPI for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg neutrino astrophysics particle astrophysics gamma ray astrophysics

19. Projects, Collaborations in Astroparticle Physics Astroparticle Physics • H.E.S.S. (MPI for Nuclear Physics/ Windhoek, Namibia) • MAGIC (MPI for Physics/ Roque de los Muchachos, Canary Islands) • CRESST (MPI for Physics/ Gran Sasso, Italy) • CAST (MPI for Physics/ CERN, France) Neutrino Astrophysics • GERDA (MPI for Physics, Nuclear Physics/ Gran Sasso, Italy) • Borexino (MPI for Nuclear Physics/ Gran Sasso, Italy) • IceCube (MPI for Nuclear Physics, Emmy Noether Res. Group/ South Pole) • Gallex/GNO, completed (MPI for Nuclear Physics/ Gran Sasso, Italy) • LENS, completed (MPI for Nuclear Physics/ Gran Sasso, Italy)

20. Thank you for your attention! Dr. Stefan EchingerHead of the Departmentfor Institutes’ Liaison Max Planck Society80084 MünchenTel.: ++49-89-2108-1284Email: echinger@gv.mpg.de