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HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATIONDr. Sebastian Schmidt

ASPERA German National Day, Hamburg, 2007, June 22

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Who are we?

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GERMAN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS

84 13,000 € 1.1Leibniz AssociationLong-term research topics

58 12,500 € 1.1Fraunhofer Society Industry-oriented research and development

80 12,000 € 1.4Max Planck Society Science-led basic research

15 25,700 € 2.3Helmholtz Association Use-inspired basic research by strategic programmes

Centres/InstitutesStaff Budget/

billion

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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

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FACTS AND FIGURES

15 research centres with 250 institutes

25,700 staff

8,000 scientists/engineers

3,400 doctoral students

Budget: 2.3 billion euros

Helmholtz Centre

Branch of a Helmholtz Centre

Helmholtz Head Office

List

Helgoland

Bremerhaven GeesthachtHamburg

Greifswald

Braunschweig

Wolfenbüttel-Remlingen

Göttingen

Magdeburg

Potsdam

Berlin

ZeuthenTeltow

Niemegk

Halle

LeipzigBad

Lauchstädt

Köln

Jülich

Bonn

Darmstadt

Heidelberg

Lampoldshausen

Karlsruhe

Stuttgart

München

GarchingNeuherberg

Oberpfaffenhofen

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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.

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STRUCTURE

Board of Funding Organisations Senate Senate Commission

President

Vice-Presidents

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)

Assembly of Members

Energ

y

Healt

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Earth &

Environment

Key Technologies

Transport &

Space

Structure of

Matter

Administrative

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27

87

108

63

171

444

123

284

296

219

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Special Tasks

Transport and Space

Structure of Matter

Key Technologies

Health

Earth and Environment

Energy

External fundings in million euros Core public funding in million euros

TOTAL COSTS OF RESEARCH FIELDS

327

365

371

150

485

210

357

includes non-programme-bound research

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PROGRAMME-ORIENTED FUNDING

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

Core element of Helmholtz Reform

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STRUCTURE OF MATTER

485 million euros from institutional and third-party fundings

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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

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COUNTING PARTICLES