Leibniz Association
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Formation | 1990 |
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Type | non-profit research organization |
Headquarters | Berlin, Germany |
President | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner |
Main organ | Senate |
Budget | €1.8 billion (2017) |
Staff | ~18700 |
Website | www |
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 2017, 91 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, spatial 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 18,700 people and budget was €1.7 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 Leibniz Association evolved from the "Blaue Liste" (blue list) in former Western Germany and research institutions of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin 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.
The Leibniz Association's headquarter is located in Berlin and there is EU bureau in Bruxelles. Since 2014 the engineer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner 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 Bochum – Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen (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 - National Maritime Museum | 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 Institute 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-Berlin | IfZ | www.ifz-muenchen.de |
Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories | Bamberg | LIfBi | www.lifbi.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 | Mainz | IEG | www.ieg-mainz.de |
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe | Leipzig | GWZO | http://www.leibniz-gwzo.de |
Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies | Regensburg | IOS | www.ios-regensburg.de |
Knowledge Media Research Center (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien) | Tübingen | KMRC (IWM) | www.iwm-tuebingen.de |
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte | Mainz | RGZM | www.rgzm.de |
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics | Berlin | ZAS | www.zas.gwz-berlin.de |
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient | Berlin | ZMO | www.zmo.de |
Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information | Trier | ZPID | www.zpid.de |
Centre for Contemporary History | Potsdam | ZZF | www.zzf-pdm.de |
Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Simon Dubnow Institute) | Leipzig | DI | http://www.dubnow.de/institut/aktuelles/ |
B - Economics, Social Sciences, Regional Infrastructure Research
C - Life Sciences
D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences & Engineering
E - Environmental Science
Name | Location | Acronym | Website |
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy | Potsdam-Bornim | ATB | www.atb-potsdam.de |
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research | Leipzig | TROPOS | 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 | 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 Centre for Tropical Marine Research | Bremen | ZMT | www.zmt-bremen.de |
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