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HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ His 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) PAGE 2

HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ A UNIVERSAL SCHOLAR § Ophthalmoscope for examining the retina § Three-component theory of colour vision § Resonance theory of hearing The first Ophthalmoscope with publication. PAGE 3 § First law of thermodynamics on the conservation of energy

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 PAGE 4

GERMAN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS (actual costs 2013) Helmholtz Association Budget/ Billion€ Staff in FTE* Centres/ Institutes 3. 55** 31, 679 18 1. 75 13, 308 89 1. 9 15, 815 67 1. 34 13, 230 89 Use-inspired basic research with strategic programmes Max Planck Society Pure basic research Fraunhofer Society Industry-oriented research and development Leibniz Association Long-term research topics Source: GWK Monitoring Report 2014 Joint Initiative for Innovation and Research *Staff in working hours (full-time equivalent) **excluding project sponsorships, project management agencies and other revenues PAGE 5

STRUCTURE Board of Funding Organisations Senate Commission President and Executive Committee President Vize Presidents Managing Director Energy Earth & Environment Health Aeronautics, Space and Transport Assembly of Members (Two per Helmholtz Centre) PAGE 6 Key Technologies Structure of Matter

CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE IN NETWORKS The Six Research Fields ENERGY EARTH & ENVIRONMENT HEALTH AERONAUTICS, SPACE AND TRANSPORT KEY TECHNOLOGIES STRUCTURE OF MATTER SEITE 7

RESEARCH FIELD ENERGY SOLHYCO/DLR ASDEX UPGRADE/IPP PAGE 8 § § Solar-thermal power stations Bioliq pilot plant Geothermal pilot plant CO 2 separation with membranes and CO 2 sequestration § Nuclear fusion (ITER)

RESEARCH FIELD EARTH & ENVIRONMENT § Polar research with the icebreaker Polarstern and the Neumayer Station Polarstern/AWI § Earth observation with satellites § Understanding atmospheric changes with the HALO aircraft HALO/DLR PAGE 9 § The climate initiative REKLIM and Regional Climate Offices

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 PAGE 10

KEY TECHNOLOGIES § Scientific computing using the supercomputers JUGENE and JUROPA JUGENE/FZJ § Nanotechnology § Information technology § Materials research for energy storage Nobel Laureat Prof. Peter Grünberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich/ Helmholtz PAGE 11

RESEARCH FIELD STRUCTURE OF MATTER § European XFEL: Films from the nanocosmos § Pilot plant FLASH HADES-Detektor/GSI § FAIR: Understanding the secrets of matter § Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN DESY PAGE 12

RESEARCH FIELD AERONAUTICS, SPACE AND TRANSPORT § Columbus space lab at the International Space Station ISS German Space Operations Center Oberpfaffenhofen /DLR § Earth observation with satellites (optic, radar, thermal) of different resolution (e. g. Terra-SAR and Tan. DEM-X) § Communication networks for air and road traffic Radar satellite Tan. DEM-X/DLR PAGE 13

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FACTS AND FIGURES § 37, 148 Staff (status as of 2013) § 14, 754 scientists § § 6, 789 Ph. D students 1, 657 vocational trainees § Budget 2014: € 3. 75 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 PAGE 15

HELMHOLTZ CENTRES Kiel Helmholtz Centre Freiberg Dresden Branch of a Helmholtz Centre Helmholtz Institute Helmholtz Head Office Ulm PAGE 16

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 Gmb. H, 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 Low emission cement/KIT § 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) Plivio Pore Implant/Forschungszentrum. Jülich PAGE 17

BROAD VARIETY OF STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS § 499 joint professorships with universities § Promoting joint initiatives through: § 15 Helmholtz Alliances + 5 Energy Alliances Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Helmholtz Zentrum München PAGE 18 § 6 Helmholtz Institutes § 110 Virtual Institutes § 181 Helmholtz Young Investigators Groups § German Centres of Health Research § Excellence initiative § Merger of university and non-university research centres creates the KIT § JARA: Jülich Aachen Research Alliance § Berlin Institute of Health

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 PAGE 19

WE PROMOTE TALENT Department Solare Energetik/HZB Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München PAGE 20 § § § Little Scientists’ House 25 Helmholtz School Labs 1, 657 vocational trainees Training of 6, 789 Ph. D students 34 Helmholtz Graduate Schools and Helmholtz Research Schools § 181 Helmholtz Young Investigators Groups with tenure option § Helmholtz Management Academy § Mentoring

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 Principal Investigator of HRJRG-116 Helmholtz-Russia Joint Research Group-006 PAGE 21 § Funding per year: 130, 000 euros (Helmholtz), 1, 200, 000 RUB (RFBR) § Total funding by Helmholtz: more than 12 million euro

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 Principal Investigator of HRJRG-116 PAGE 22 § Perspectives, impulses and possibilities of further cooperation were discussed

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” PAGE 23

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. Jürgen Oberst und Direktor von MIIGAi. K § Prof. Dr. Friedrich Wagner, IPP-Director a. D. § Prof. Dr. Alexey Ustinov, KIT Helmholtz Science Talk 4. 12 in Moskau PAGE 24 § Helmholtz Science Talk „Russian Megascience Projects: Prospects and Potentials for the German-Russian Research Cooperation“ 2012 in Moscow

Thank you! Dr. Elena Eremenko Helmholtz Office Moscow www. helmholtz. ru Moscow, Malaya Pirogovskaya 5, off. 24 Tel. +7 495 9811763 moscow@helmholtz. de PAGE 25

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