- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
The Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (complete title: "Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" . In English: Scientific Community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) is a union of German research institutes from various branches of study.
In 2005, 84 non-universitary 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, 13000, and the 2004 budget was 1.05 billion €.
Leibnitz Institutes have a funding system different from that of universities and of other non-university research organizations, such as the
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft orFraunhofer-Gesellschaft .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
Bonn ; there is a branch inBerlin . Since 2005, Prof. Dr. Dr.Ernst Theodor Rietschel , head of the Forschungszentrum Borstel, is president of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Dr.Michael Klein is the director of the institute.ections
Sektion A - Humanities and History of Education
Sektion D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences & Engineering
Sektion E - Environmental Science
Retired Institutes
* 1979-1997: at least 4
* 1998:Forschungsinstitut für Kinderernährung (FKE), Dortmund undInstitut für Erdölforschung (IfE), Clausthal
* 1999:Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut (DBI), Berlin
* 2000:Medizinisches Institut für Umwelthygiene (MIU), Düsseldorf undDeutsche Zentralbibliothek für Landbauwissenschaften (ZBL), Bonn sowieDeutsche Institut für Fernstudienforschung (DIFF), Unviersität Tübingen
* 2002:Heinrich-Hertz-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (HHI), Berlin (jetztFraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik )Links:
* [http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de Homepage of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, redirecting links to all of its institutes]
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