HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRES

1. >>Strategic Alliance for a Better Future<< HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION OF GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRES Dr. Hong HE

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION ABOUT DR. HONG HE • Jan. 2004- : Chief Representative of the Helmholtz Beijing Office • Aug. 2000-Dec. 2003: Director of the International Cooperation Division, Beijing Science and Technology Commission • Sept. 2002- Sept. 2003: Deputy Director of the Economic Development Department, Beijing Economic Industrial Park (BDA), Sandwich Programme • April 1995- Aug. 2000: Research Professor and deputy division head in the Beijing Institute of Space-Medico Engineering • April 1991-April 1994: Postdoctoral research assistant in the Oxford University • Sept. 1987-March 1991: PhD student in the FSU-Jena University, Germany • Nov. 1986-June 1987: Candidate student for oversees study in Xian College of Foreign Languages, intensive German courses • Sept. 1982-July 1986: Bachelor student in the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province.

3. THE 15 RESEARCH CENTRES OF THE HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION • Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron • Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt • Forschungszentrum Jülich • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe • Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung • GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam • GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht • GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung • Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik • Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin • UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle

4. OUR MISSION • Making provisions for tomorrow’s world: Top-rate research contributes to solving grand challenges • Think big, act big:A complex infrastructure and large-scale facilities • Knowledge generates results: Using research findings to benefit society and industry

5. HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ • Universal scholar with a sense for the practical • First law of thermodynamics on the conservation of energy • Ophthalmoscope for examining the retina • Three-component theory of colour vision • Founding father of modern meteorology • Explained the principals of tone colour through harmonics; resonance theory of hearing • Founding President of the Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt in Charlottenburg Hermann von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894)

6. FACTS AND FIGURES List Helgoland Greifswald Bremerhaven Hamburg Geesthacht • 15 research centres • 250 institutes • 25,000 staff • 8,500 scientists and engineers (excluding young and early-stage researchers) • 3,250 doctoral students • Budget: 2.2 billion euros Berlin Braunschweig Potsdam Zeuthen Wolfenbüttel-Remlingen Teltow Magdeburg Niemegk Göttingen Halle Bad Lauchstädt Leipzig Jülich Köln Bonn Darmstadt Heidelberg Lampoldshausen Karlsruhe Stuttgart Neuherberg Garching München Oberpfaffenhofen Helmholtz Centre Branch of a Helmholtz Centre Helmholtz Head Office

7. HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION FINANCES • Total budget: 2.2 billion euros • Institutional: 1.6 billion euros, • 90% from federal government • 10% from federal states • External: 0.6 billion euros, • 15% funding from industry

8. PROGRAMME-ORIENTED FUNDINGCORE ELEMENT OF HELMHOLTZ REFORM • Top-rate research in strategic programmes consistent with research policy guidelines • Competition and cooperation in six research fields with a total of 30 programmes • Funding of cross-centre programmes instead of individual centres • International evaluation by experts every five years • Successful programmes stand out through their scientific excellence and strategic relevance • Research-tailored controlling

9. STRUCTURE OF THE HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION • Senate • Senate Commission • Board of Funding Organisations • President • Vice-Presidents Energy Earth and Environment Health Structure of Matter Transport and Space Key Technologies Assembly of Members • Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron • Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg • Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt • Forschungszentrum Jülich • Forschungszentrum Karlsruh • Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung • GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam • GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht • GSF-Forschungszentrum für Umwelt und Gesundheit • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung • Hahn-Meitner-Institut Berlin • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik • Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin • UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle

10. NON-UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS IN GERMANY

11. TOP-RATE SCIENCE IN NETWORKS • The six research fields: Energy Earth and Environment Health Key Technologies Structure of Matter Transport and Space

12. OUR CORE COMPETENCE:LARGE-SCALE FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE • Managing national and international networks and consortia, for example: • Tsunami early warning system • Developing, building and operating large-scale facilities, • for example: • ITER, XFEL, FAIR • Providing complex infrastructure and platforms, for example: • Polarstern, supercomputing, mouse genetics Tsunami early warning system Ion accelerator facility Ice breaker ‘Polarstern’

13. STRATEGIC ALLIANCES • Close cooperation with universities,for example: • around 200 joint appointments • 52 Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Groups • 65 virtual institutes • Strategic partnerships with industry, for example : • Particle therapy for cancer • GMR sensor for hard disk technology • Small molecules for new pharmacological agents • Consortia with non-university research institutions,for example : • Climate research aircraft HALO • Earth Observation System EOS • German Marine Research Consortium

14. HELMHOLTZ INTERNATIONAL • Bilateral partnerships between Helmholtz scientists and outstanding research institutions worldwide • Successful in Europe, e.g. a 35% success rate with EU applications; 70% with infrastructure applications (German average 22%), over 260 million euros from the 6th Framework Programme, participation in 559 projects • Visiting scientists, e.g. 3,500 visiting scientists at the large-scale facilities in the field of basic natural sciences research • Large-scale facilities with international participation, e.g. ITER, XFEL, FAIR • Regional offices in Brussels, Moscow, Beijing

15. PROMOTING YOUNG & EARLY-STAGE RESEARCHERS • Working together with universities to train doctoral students (some 3,200 doctoral students at Helmholtz Centres) • Helmholtz Graduate Schools offering Graduate Training Programs • Helmholtz-University Young Investigators Groups with tenureoption 2005: 52 groups2008: ca. 100 planned • Helmholtz Academy for scientists in managerial positions (in preparation) • Helmholtz School Labs at 19 locations

16. PACT FOR RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CONCLUDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY AND THE LÄNDER IN 2005 TO INCREASE THE QUALITY AND PERMANCE OF RESEARCH • Participating in excellence competition in cooperation with universities and with the investment of Helmholtz resources • Enhancing Germany’s appeal by developing, building and operating outstanding, large-scale research facilities, with continual quality controls • Networking with universities, business and industry, and non-university research institutions • Providing structured training for doctoral students and young investigators • Promoting women in science and research • Strategically developing new research areas, including ones with higher risk or unconventional research approaches • Agreeing on strategic plans for core areas of research and innovation The Helmholtz Association has committed itself to the objectives of the Pact for Research and Innovation and contributes actively to it

17. INSTRUMENTS FOR COOPERATION • Helmholtz Alliances • Virtual Institutes • Joint Laboratories or Junior- or Partner Scientists Groups • International PhD Programmes or Bilateral Education Programmes • Helmholtz Summer-Schools or Workshops

18. HELMHOLTZ AND CHINA • Many of our centres have had over 25 years of cooperation with Chinese Partners • Helmholtz hosts about 200 Chinese guest scientists and recruit about 40 per year • Helmholtz and the CSC (Chinese Scholarship Council) is preparing a contract for receiving and supporting up to 50 PhD or Postdocs per year. • Helmholtz Summer-Schools or Workshops • International PhD Programmes or Bilateral Education Programmes • We are strategic partner for international big science projects, such as Galileo, ITER, FAIR and XFEL. • We are also interested in establishing new contacts, that is why we set up the Beijing Representative Office in 2004 as the second oversees office, behind Brussels and before Moscow. • We are also interested in cooperation on technology-transfer for industrial purpose and have good experience with Chinese partners.

19. OUR EXPERIENCE WITH CHINA • Our scientists are very satisfied with the quality of the Chinese visitors in general, only in several cases there were complains about the language • We find some excellent Chinese groups, who are returnees from oversees, who are still holding good networks with the Chinese Americans, or the Chinese scientists oversees. There is an increasing number of good facilities and good research clusters in the CAS or the other prominent universities. • We define the cooperation of three different levels: a) Enrolling students from China (visiting scientists); b) Invited and paid by the Chinese for lectures and instructions; c) Cooperation based on a fair win-win partnership, increasing number of projects based on commercial basis. • Just like its economy, China is growing very rapidly, but still a developing country concerning its R&D. There are tremendous achievements, but also various challenges, for instance, the Chinese can do very well in a Western laboratory, or under a good professor, but not yet to figure out the real problem, there is still a 10-15 years long way to go for its own innovation. They are good at spots, but not on a team work for a complex solution, like a precision production line. • For big projects like ITER, there is worries on the Chinese side how to find and sent 10% of the qualified scientists and engineers, on the other side, they do can contribute a lot to the international community.

20. OUR SUGGESTION FOR EU-CHINA COOPERATION • Scientists should be better informed about the calls and the possibilities. • There should be more initiatives, like mutual visits, like symposiums. There should be more funds for travelling, for people meeting together • Hopefully, for a country like China, Indian and Russia, there could be a dedicated Steering Committee, which should would hold a session meeting every year, give a brief review on the ongoing projects, and making suggestions or guidance for scientists to apply for projects in the coming year.

21. “Energy is not lost” Our Motto: Achieve more together! Hermann von Helmholtz