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HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION

HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION. Dr. Sebastian Schmidt. ASPERA German National Day, Hamburg, 2007, June 22. Who are we?. GERMAN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS. Budget/ billion . Staff . Centres/ Institutes. Helmholtz Association Use-inspired basic research by strategic programmes. € 2.3. 25,700 . 15 .

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HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION

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  1. HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION Dr. Sebastian Schmidt ASPERA German National Day, Hamburg, 2007, June 22

  2. Who are we?

  3. GERMAN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS • Budget/ • billion • Staff • Centres/Institutes • Helmholtz Association • Use-inspired basic research by strategic programmes • € 2.3 • 25,700 • 15 • Max Planck Society • Science-led basic research • € 1.4 • 12,000 • 80 • Fraunhofer Society • Industry-oriented research and development • € 1.1 • 12,500 • 58 • Leibniz Association • Long-term research topics • € 1.1 • 13,000 • 84

  4. HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION FINANCES • Total budget: 2.3 billion euros • Institutional funding: approx. 1.6 billion euros, 90% from federalgovernment 10% from federal states • Third-party funding: approx. 0.7 billion euros, 15% funding from industry

  5. FACTS AND FIGURES List Helgoland Greifswald Bremerhaven Hamburg Geesthacht • 15 research centres with 250 institutes • 25,700 staff • 8,000 scientists/engineers • 3,400 doctoral students • Budget: 2.3 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

  6. 15 RESEARCH CENTRES • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron • German Cancer Research Centre • German Aerospace Centre • Research Centre Jülich • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe • GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam • GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht • GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung • Hahn-Meitner Institute • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ • Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (formerly GBF) • Institut für Plasmaphysik (associated) • Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine The Helmholtz Association was founded in 1995 as an umbrella organisation of 15 national research centres all established after 1950.

  7. STRUCTURE • Senate Commission • Senate • Board of Funding Organisations • President Administrative • Vice-Presidents Energy Earth & Environment Health Structure of Matter Transport & Space Key Technologies Assembly of Members • Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) • German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) • German Aerospace Centre (DLR) • Research Centre Jülich • Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe • GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam (GFZ) • GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht (GKSS) • GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health (GSF) • Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) • Hahn-Meitner Institute (HMI) • Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research • Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP, associated member) • Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) • UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle (UFZ)

  8. TOTAL COSTS OF RESEARCH FIELDS 327 365 371 150 485 357 210 includes non-programme-bound research

  9. PROGRAMME-ORIENTED FUNDING Core element of Helmholtz Reform • Strategic programmes in line with research policy guidelines • Six research fields with 30 programmes • Funding of centres through programmes • International evaluation every five years by top level experts • Successful programmes stand out through their scientific excellence and strategic relevance

  10. STRUCTURE OF MATTER • 485 million euros from institutional and third-party fundings

  11. ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS • KASKADE Grande and LOPES • KATRIN • AUGER south, start 2008 • AUGER north, in planning • EDELWEISS • AMANDA/IceCube • NT200+ • CTA • 2 Virtual Institutes • 2 Young Investigator Groups

  12. COUNTING PARTICLES

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