Leibniz Association
The Leibniz Association (German: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft or Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) is a union of German non-university research institutes from various branches of study.
In 2011, 87 non-university research institutes and service device for science belong to the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. The fields range from natural science, engineering, and ecology, to economics, other social sciences, space science, and humanities. The Leibniz Institutes work in an interdisciplinary fashion, and connect basic and applied science. They cooperate with universities, industry, and other partners in different parts of the world. The "evaluation" of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft is a benchmark for all institutes. The Leibniz Institutes employ 16,800 people and budget was €1.4 billion.[1]
Leibniz Institutes are funded publicly to equal parts by the federal government and the Federal states (Bundesländer).
History
The Leibniz-Gemeinschaft is named after the German philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and inventor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716).
The partnership evolved from the Blaue Liste (blue list) and partnerships of research institutions of the former DDR, whose research capability was deemed worth keeping after an evaluation by the German Wissenschaftsrat. The name 'Blaue Liste' for a German model for funding science has been retired, and traces back to the color of a dossier.
Leibniz-Gemeinschaft has its registered office in Berlin; there are branches in Bonn und Bruxelles. Since 2010 the sociologist Prof. Dr. Karl Ulrich Mayer is president of the Leibniz Association, Christiane Neumann acts as secretary general.
Sections
A - Humanities and History of Education
Name | Location | Acronym | Website |
Deutsches Bergbau-Museum (Research Institute for Mining History and Mining Museum) | Bochum | DBM | www.bergbaumuseum.de |
German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning | Bonn | DIE | www.die-bonn.de |
German Institute for International Educational Research | Frankfurt am Main | DIPF | www.dipf.de/ |
Deutsches Museum | München | DM | www.deutsches-museum.de |
Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum | Bremerhaven | DSM | www.dsm.museum |
Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research | Braunschweig | GEI | www.gei.de |
Germanisches Nationalmuseum | Nürnberg | GNM | www.gnm.de |
Herder-Institut – Centre for Historical Research on East Central Europe | Marburg | HI | www.herder-institut.de |
Institute for the German Language | Mannheim | IDS | www.ids-mannheim.de |
Institute of Contemporary History | München | IfZ | www.ifz-muenchen.de |
Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel | Kiel | IPN | www.ipn.uni-kiel.de |
[Leibniz-Insitut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG)] | [Mainz] | IEG | |
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien | Tübingen | IWM | www.iwm-tuebingen.de |
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte | Mainz | RGZM | www.rgzm.de |
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information | Trier | ZPID | www.zpid.de |
Centre for Contemporary History | Potsdam | ZZF | www.zzf-pdm.de |
B - Economics, Social Sciences, Regional Infrastructure Research
C - Life Sciences
Name | Location | Acronym | Website |
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine | Hamburg | BNI | www.bni-hamburg.de |
Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine (Associated member) | Bremen | BIPS | www.bips.uni-bremen.de |
German Diabetes Center – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf | Düsseldorf | DDZ | www.ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de |
German Research Centre for Food Chemistry Garching | Garching | DFA | www.dfal.de |
German Institute of Human Nutrition | Potsdam-Rehbrücke | DIfE | www.dife.de |
German Rheumatism Research Center | Berlin | DRFZ | www.drfz.de |
German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research | Göttingen | DPZ | www.dpz.eu |
German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures | Brunswick | DSMZ | www.dsmz.de |
Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology | Dummerstorf | FBN | www.fbn-dummerstorf.de |
Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute | Jena | FLI | www.fli-leibniz.de |
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie | Berlin | FMP | www.fmp-berlin.de |
Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences | Borstel | FZB | www.fz-borstel.de |
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute | Jena | HKI | www.hki-jena.de |
Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology | Hamburg | HPI | www.hpi-hamburg.de |
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors | Dortmund | IfADo | www.ifado.de |
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology | Magdeburg | LIN | www.ifn-magdeburg.de |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry | Halle | IPB | www.ipb-halle.de |
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research | Gatersleben | IPK | www.ipk-gatersleben.de |
Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine | Düsseldorf | IUF | www.iuf.uni-duesseldorf.de |
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research | Berlin | IZW | www.izw-berlin.de/ |
Leibniz Institute of Arteriosclerosis Research | Münster | LIFA | www.lifa-muenster.de |
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on
Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin |
Berlin | MfN | www.mfn-berlin.de |
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung | Frankfurt am Main | SGN | www.senckenberg.de |
German National Library of Medicine | Köln & Bonn | ZBMed | www.zbmed.de/ |
Alexander Koenig Research Museum, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity | Bonn | ZFMK | www.zfmk.de |
D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences & Engineering
E - Environmental Science
Name | Location | Acronym | Website |
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering | Potsdam-Bornim | ATB | www.atb-potsdam.de |
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences | Kiel | IFM-GEOMAR | www.ifm-geomar.de |
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research | Leipzig | IfT | www.tropos.de |
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries | Berlin | IGB | www.igb-berlin.de |
Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops | Großbeeren & Erfurt | IGZ | www.igzev.de |
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research | Warnemünde | IOW | www.io-warnemuende.de |
Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics | Hannover | LIAG | www.liag-hannover.de |
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Potsdam | PIK | www.pik-potsdam.de |
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research | Müncheberg | ZALF | www.zalf.de |
Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology | Bremen | ZMT | www.zmt-bremen.de |
Retired institutes
- 1979–1997: at least 4
- 1998: Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung (FKE), Dortmund und Institut für Erdölforschung (IfE), Clausthal
- 1999: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (DBI), Berlin
- 2000: Medizinisches Institut für Umwelthygiene (MIU), Düsseldorf und Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Landbauwissenschaften (ZBL), Bonn sowie Deutsche Institut für Fernstudienforschung (DIFF), Universität Tübingen
- 2002: Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (HHI), Berlin (jetzt Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik)
Leibniz alumni of business start-ups
Since 1990, 34 Leibniz institutions created more than 110 innovative business start-ups with about 1,600 new jobs. When seen from the regional perspective, the New Federal Lands and Berlin account for about 75% of the business start-ups. Leibniz business start-ups are generating an annual turnover of more than 145 million euros. The high sustainability and quality of the business startups is mirrored in a low insolvency of less than 5 percent.[2]
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