HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION

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HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION

• Dr. Elena Eremenko

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HELMHOLTZ MISSION

• Strategic research for grand challenges with
  cutting-edge research
• Think big, act big Developing and operating
  complex infrastructure and large-scale facilities
  for the national and international scientific
  community
• Creating wealth for society and industry through
  transfer of knowledge and technology

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GERMAN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS (actual costs 2012)
Budget/ Billion
Staffin FTE
Centres/Institutes
18
31,679
3.29
Helmholtz Association Use-inspired basic
research with strategic programmes
87
13.308
1.65
Max Planck Society Pure basic research
66
15.815
1.8
Fraunhofer Society Industry-oriented research
and development
86
13.230
1.3
Leibniz Association Long-term research topics

• Source GWK Monitoring Report 2013 Joint
  Initiative for Innovation and Research
• Staff in working hours (full-time equivalent)
• excluding project sponsorships, project
  management agencies and other revenues

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HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZHis name is our mission

• Commitment to interdisciplinary research
• A sense for the practical Contribution to
  creating wealth
• Founding President of the Physikalisch-Technische
  Reichsanstalt Effective management of
  large-scale research

Hermann von Helmholtz (1821 1894)
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CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE IN NETWORKSThe Six Research
Fields
ENERGY
EARTH ENVIRONMENT
HEALTH
AERONAUTICS, SPACE AND TRANSPORT
KEY TECHNOLOGIES
STRUCTURE OF MATTER
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RESEARCH FIELD ENERGY

• Solar-thermal power stations
• Bioliq pilot plant
• Geothermal pilot plant
• CO2 separation with membranes and CO2
  sequestration
• Nuclear fusion (ITER)

SOLHYCO/DLR
ASDEX UPGRADE/IPP
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RESEARCH FIELD EARTH ENVIRONMENT

• Polar research with the ice-breaker Polarstern
  and the Neumayer Station
• Earth observation with satellites
• Understanding atmospheric changes with the HALO
  aircraft
• The climate initiative REKLIM and Regional
  Climate Offices

Polarstern/AWI
HALO/DLR
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RESEARCH FIELD HEALTH

• Disease prevention and personal risk assessment
• Translational research
• Nationales Zentrum für Tumorerkrankungen (NCT)
  Heidelberg
• Experimental and Clinical Research Centre (ECRC),
  Berlin
• TWINCORE, Braunschweig
• German Centres of Health Research
• Helmholtz Cohort

Nobel Laureat Prof. Harald zur Hausen/DKFZ
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KEY TECHNOLOGIES

• Scientific computing using the supercomputers
  JUGENE and JUROPA
• Nanotechnology
• Information technology
• Materials research for energy storage

JUGENE/FZJ
Nobel Laureat Prof. Peter Grünberg,
Forschungszentrum Jülich/ Helmholtz
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RESEARCH FIELD STRUCTURE OF MATTER

• European XFEL Films from the nanocosmos
• Pilot plant FLASH
• FAIR Understanding the secrets of matter
• Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN

HADES-Detektor/GSI
DESY
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RESEARCH FIELDAERONAUTICS, SPACE AND TRANSPORT

• Columbus space lab at the International Space
  Station ISS
• Earth observation with satellites (optic, radar,
  thermal) of different resolution (e.g. Terra-SAR
  and TanDEM-X)
• Communication networks for air and road traffic

German Space Operations Center Oberpfaffenhofen
/DLR
Radar satellite TanDEM-X/DLR
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FACTS AND FIGURES

• 35,672 Staff (status as of 2012)
• 12,709 scientists engineers
• 6,635 PhD students
• 1,652 vocational trainees
• Budget 2014 3.8 billion
• 2.58 bn (budget approach) Institutional
  funding (90 federal, 10 state)
• 1.04 bn Third-party funding (based on actual
  costs 2012)
• 0.13 bn Special Financing

including contracts of project management
agencies and other revenues, excluding project
sponsorships totalling about 138 M
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HELMHOLTZ CENTRES
Kiel
Helmholtz Centre
Branch of a Helmholtz Centre
Dresden
Freiberg
Helmholtz Institute
Helmholtz Head Office
Ulm
Ulm
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BROAD VARIETY OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

• 296 joint professorships with universities
• Promoting joint initiatives through
• 15 Helmholtz Alliances 5 Energy Alliances
• 5 Helmholtz Institutes
• 110 Virtual Institutes
• 164 Helmholtz Young Investigators Groups
• German Centres of Health Research
• Merger of university and non-university research
  centres creates the KIT
• JARA Jülich Aachen Research Alliance

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Helmholtz Zentrum München
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TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

• Just under 1,400 licencing agreements generated
  almost 22 million in income (2012)
• 80 spin-offs between 2005 and 2012, e.g.
  Celitement GmbH, Karlsruhe (produces
  low-emission-cement)
• Annually about 2,000 collaborative projects with
  industry with revenues of 156 m (2012)
• Portfolio of about 12,000 intellectual property
  rights, a quarter of it licensed
• 400 new patents are filed every year
• Funding instruments Helmholtz Validation Fund,
  Helmholtz Enterprise and Shared Services
• Innovation Days as technology and partnering
  platform
• Workshops with enterprises (e.g. with Roche in
  2012, with IBM in 2013)

Low emission cement/KIT
Plivio Pore Implant/ForschungszentrumJülich
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HELMHOLTZ INTERNATIONAL

• Base for new large-scale facilities with
  international participation, e.g. European
  XFEL, FAIR
• Participation in international projects, e.g.
  ITER
• Liaison offices in Brussels, Moscow, Beijing
• Bilateral partnerships around the world
• 7,765 visiting scientists at Helmholtz Centres

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WE PROMOTE TALENT

• Training of 6,635 PhD students
• 34 Helmholtz Graduate Schools and Helmholtz
  Research Schools
• 164 Helmholtz Young Investigators Groups with
  tenure option
• Helmholtz Management Academy
• Mentoring
• 1,652 vocational trainees
• 25 Helmholtz School Labs
• Little Scientists House

Department Solare Energetik/HZB
Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz
Zentrum München
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Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Groups

• Since 2006 5 joint calls Helmholtz-Russia Joint
  Research Groups, a joint program of Helmholtz
  Association and Russian Foundation for Basic
  Research
• Funding per year 130,000 euros (Helmholtz),
  1,200,000 RUB (RFBR)
• Total funding by Helmholtz more than 12 million
  euro

Principal Investigator of HRJRG-116
Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group-006
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Examples of HRJRGs (total 32)

• HRJRG-025
• ECOLINK-Understanding Effects of Environmental
  Toxicants at Population and Community Levels A
  Link Between Ecotoxicological Experiments and
  Field Observations within Eurasian Climate
  Scenarios by Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
  Research - UFZ and Institute of Systematics and
  Ecology of Anivals, Siberian Branch of RAS
  (Novosibirsk)
• HRJRG-110
• Seismic Tomography Algorithms for Fundamental and
  Applied Purposes by Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam GFZ
  German Research Centre for Geosciences and A.A.
  Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and
  Geophysics, Siberian Branch of RAS (Novosibirsk)

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Examples of HRJRGs (total 32)

• HRJRG-316
• Very high-density peptide arrays by laser-induced
  particle melting in liquid phase by Karlsruhe
  Institute of Technology (KIT) and Institute on
  Laser and Information Technologies of the Russian
  Academy of Sciences (ILIT RAS) (Moscow)
• HRJRG-404
• Structural properties of carbonate-silicate melts
  and their effect on fractionation processes in
  the deep Earth investigated by synchrotron
  radiation, spectroscopic and ion probe methods by
  Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research
  Centre for Geosciences and Institute for Physical
  Chemistry and Electrochemistry of RAS (Moscow)

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HRJRG-Alumni-Meeting on March 3, 2014

• HRJRG-groups presented the results of their
  projects
• IB BMBF, Russian Ministry for Science and
  Education, DWIH Moscow, FASIE presented their
  funding programmes
• Perspectives, impulses and possibilities of
  further cooperation were discussed

Principal Investigator of HRJRG-116
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International Conference in Potsdam on April 2-3,
2014

• International Scientific Conference Research on
  Sustainability a Russian-German Dialogue
• German-Russian Science Talk Energy and
  Environment new challenges for Society, Science
  and Economy

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MEGASCIENCE and MEGAGRANTS

• Helmholtz winners of the Russian Megagrants
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Oberst, DLR
• Prof. Dr. Jörn Thiede, AWI-Director a.D.
• Prof. Dr. Manfred Thumm, KIT
• Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wagner, IPP-Director a.D.
• Prof. Dr. Alexey Ustinov, KIT
• Helmholtz Science Talk Russian Megascience
  Projects Prospects and Potentials for the
  German-Russian Research Cooperation 2012 in
  Moscow

Prof. Jürgen Oberst und Direktor von MIIGAiK
Helmholtz Science Talk 4.12.12 in Moskau
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Thank you!

• Dr. Elena Eremenko
• Helmholtz Office Moscow
• www.helmholtz.ru
• Moscow,
• Malaya Pirogovskaya 5, off. 24
• Tel. [phone]
• moscow_at_helmholtz.de

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HELMHOLTZ ASSOCIATION

• Dr. Elena Eremenko