The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (German: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) is the largest scientific organisation in Germany. It is a union of 18 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centers. The official mission of the Association is "solving the grand challenges of science, society and industry". Scientists at Helmholtz therefore focus research on complex systems which affect human life and the environment. The namesake of the association is the German physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz.[2]
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
Predecessor
Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen (AGF)
The annual budget of the Helmholtz Association amounts to €4.56 billion, of which about 72% is raised from public funds. The remaining 28% of the budget is acquired by the 19 individual Helmholtz Centres in the form of contract funding. The public funds are provided by the federal government (90%) and the rest by the States of Germany (10%).[2][1]
The Helmholtz Association was ranked #6 in 2020 by the Nature Index, which measures the largest contributors to papers published in 82 leading journals.[3][4][5]
Helmholtz Institutes are partnerships between a Helmholtz Center and a university (the institutes are not members of the Helmholtz Association themselves). Examples of Helmholtz Institutes include:
Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), Würzburg, established in 2017[7]
Programme structure
The works of the centers are categorised into programmes, which are divided into six research groups.[8] The Helmholtz centers are grouped according to which research group they belong to:
Earth and environment is studied at AWI, DLR, FZJ, KIT, HZI, GEOMAR, GFZ, HZG, HMGU, UFZ. Topics are the changing earth, marine, coastal and polar systems, atmosphere and climate, biogeosystems and the topic terrestrial environment.
Aeronautics, Space and Transport is studied at DLR. Major research topics are mobility, information systems and communication.
The Helmholtz Climate Initiative
Logo of the Regional Climate Change initiative
Eight of the above-mentioned Helmholtz centers are part of the Helmholtz Climate Initiative Regional Climate (in German: Regionale Klimainitiative) REKLIM in order to tackle the interactions between atmosphere, sea ice, ocean and land surfaces. These interactions determine the climate of the Earth. Detailed observations and process studies are combined within the initiative. For the funding period 2009-2013 the REKLIM-initiative has a budget of 32.2 million Euro.[9] In this funding period, the program is divided into seven topics, each of the topics is organized in various work-packages.
Coupled modelling of regional earth systems. Model regions are the Arctic and Europe. Highly resolved regional model are used to simulate atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, ice sheets, land surface, soil, vegetation, aerosol chemistry and other components on a regional scale.
Sea-level changes and coastal protection. The effects of glacier and ice-stream dynamics, the response of the ocean on heating and melt water run-off are studied in particularly for Greenland.
Regional climate changes in the Arctic Forcing and long-term effects at the land-ocean interface
The land surface in the climate system
Chemistry-climate interactions on global to regional scales
Extreme weather events Storms, heavy precipitation, floods and droughts
In the second funding period (2011-2015), three additional topics have been added.
Open access
The Helmholtz Association was one of the initial signatories of the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. This commitment towards open access publishing of scientific research was then formally approved by its Assembly of Members, an assembly of the directors of the Helmholtz Centers. In a September 2004 Resolution the Assembly adopted the following commitment: ”Publications from the Helmholtz Association shall in future, without exception, be available free of charge, as far as no conflicting agreement with publishers or others exists.” While the Helmholtz Association has no strict open access mandate. The Helmholtz Association encourages gold open access, while green open access is promoted through institutional repositories of the individual Helmholtz Centers.[10] To further the idea of open science, the Helmholtz Association maintains the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office.[11]
Notes
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe is often abbreviated as FZK, although this violates the rights of Feuerverzinkerei FZK Karlsruhe.
References
^ abc"Facts and Figures". Helmholtz Association. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^ abHelmholtz Association - About Us retrieved 24-May-2012.
^"Ten institutions that dominated science in 2015". Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^"10 institutions that dominated science in 2017". Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^"Introduction to the Nature Index". Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^. FZD. 22 May 2009. Archived from the original on 7 March 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2009.
^Press release "Helmholtz-Institut kommt nach Würzburg" (German)
^Helmholtz Association - Research retrieved 29-Sept-2015
^"Helmholtz-Verbund Regionale Klimaänderungen (REKLIM)". Süddeutsches Klimabüro. Retrieved 4 November 2013.
^"Germany - Global Open Access Portal". UNESCO. Retrieved 7 May 2017.
^Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office, Helmholtz Association
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Official website
January 23, 2023
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The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres German Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren is the largest scientific organisation in Germany It is a union of 18 scientific technical and biological medical research centers The official mission of the Association is solving the grand challenges of science society and industry Scientists at Helmholtz therefore focus research on complex systems which affect human life and the environment The namesake of the association is the German physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresHelmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher ForschungszentrenPredecessorArbeitsgemeinschaft der Grossforschungseinrichtungen AGF Established1995 28 years ago 1995 TypeRegistered associationHeadquartersBonn and BerlinPresidentOtmar WiestlerBudget 2020 5 billion 1 Employees42 000 2020 1 Websitewww wbr helmholtz wbr de wbr en wbr The annual budget of the Helmholtz Association amounts to 4 56 billion of which about 72 is raised from public funds The remaining 28 of the budget is acquired by the 19 individual Helmholtz Centres in the form of contract funding The public funds are provided by the federal government 90 and the rest by the States of Germany 10 2 1 The Helmholtz Association was ranked 6 in 2020 by the Nature Index which measures the largest contributors to papers published in 82 leading journals 3 4 5 Contents 1 Members 2 Programme structure 3 The Helmholtz Climate Initiative 4 Open access 5 Notes 6 References 7 External linksMembers Edit Map of 19 member centers of the Helmholtz association Members of the Helmholtz Association are Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research Alfred Wegener Institut fur Polar und Meeresforschung AWI Bremerhaven Helmholtz Center for Information Security CISPA Saarbrucken German Electron Synchrotron Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY Hamburg German Cancer Research Center Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum DKFZ Heidelberg German Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt DLR Cologne German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases Deutsches Zentrum fur Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen DZNE Bonn Forschungszentrum Julich FZJ Julich Research Center Julich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruher Institut fur Technologie KIT formerly Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe Karlsruhe Helmholtz Center for Infection Research Helmholtz Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung HZI Braunschweig GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences Helmholtz Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ Potsdam Helmholtz Zentrum Hereon Geesthacht formerly known as Gesellschaft fur Kernenergieverwertung in Schiffbau und Schiffahrt mbH GKSS Helmholtz Munchen German Research Centre for Environmental Health HMGU Neuherberg GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie HZB Berlin Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research Helmholtz Zentrum fur Umweltforschung UFZ Leipzig Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics Max Planck Institut fur Plasmaphysik IPP Garching Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association Max Delbruck Centrum fur Molekulare Medizin in der Helmholtz Gemeinschaft MDC Berlin Buch Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf HZDR formerly known as Forschungszentrum Dresden Rossendorf FZD changed 2011 from the Leibniz Association to the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers 6 Dresden Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel GEOMAR formerly known as Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences IFM GEOMAR Helmholtz Institutes are partnerships between a Helmholtz Center and a university the institutes are not members of the Helmholtz Association themselves Examples of Helmholtz Institutes include Helmholtz Institute for RNA based Infection Research HIRI Wurzburg established in 2017 7 Programme structure EditThe works of the centers are categorised into programmes which are divided into six research groups 8 The Helmholtz centers are grouped according to which research group they belong to Energy includes contributions from DLR KIT FZJ GFZ HZB HZDR IPP Topics are Renewable energies energy efficient conversion nuclear fusion and nuclear safety Earth and environment is studied at AWI DLR FZJ KIT HZI GEOMAR GFZ HZG HMGU UFZ Topics are the changing earth marine coastal and polar systems atmosphere and climate biogeosystems and the topic terrestrial environment Health is studied at the DKFZ FZJ KIT HZI DZNE HZG HMGU GSI HZB HZDR MDC and UFZ This includes cancer research cardio vascular and metabolic disease research nervous system infection and immunity environmental health studies comparative genomics for human health Key Technologies are studied at FZJ KIT HZG In a single topic there is cooperations of the HZB Structure of Matter is studied at DESY FZJ KIT HZG GSI HZB HZDR Topics are elementary and astroparticle physics hadrons and nuclear physics PNI research research with Photons Neutrons and Ions aeronautics space and transport research Aeronautics Space and Transport is studied at DLR Major research topics are mobility information systems and communication The Helmholtz Climate Initiative Edit Logo of the Regional Climate Change initiative Eight of the above mentioned Helmholtz centers are part of the Helmholtz Climate Initiative Regional Climate in German Regionale Klimainitiative REKLIM in order to tackle the interactions between atmosphere sea ice ocean and land surfaces These interactions determine the climate of the Earth Detailed observations and process studies are combined within the initiative For the funding period 2009 2013 the REKLIM initiative has a budget of 32 2 million Euro 9 In this funding period the program is divided into seven topics each of the topics is organized in various work packages Coupled modelling of regional earth systems Model regions are the Arctic and Europe Highly resolved regional model are used to simulate atmosphere ocean sea ice ice sheets land surface soil vegetation aerosol chemistry and other components on a regional scale Sea level changes and coastal protection The effects of glacier and ice stream dynamics the response of the ocean on heating and melt water run off are studied in particularly for Greenland Regional climate changes in the Arctic Forcing and long term effects at the land ocean interface The land surface in the climate system Chemistry climate interactions on global to regional scales Extreme weather events Storms heavy precipitation floods and droughts Socio economics and management Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategiesIn the second funding period 2011 2015 three additional topics have been added Open access EditThe Helmholtz Association was one of the initial signatories of the 2003 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities This commitment towards open access publishing of scientific research was then formally approved by its Assembly of Members an assembly of the directors of the Helmholtz Centers In a September 2004 Resolution the Assembly adopted the following commitment Publications from the Helmholtz Association shall in future without exception be available free of charge as far as no conflicting agreement with publishers or others exists While the Helmholtz Association has no strict open access mandate The Helmholtz Association encourages gold open access while green open access is promoted through institutional repositories of the individual Helmholtz Centers 10 To further the idea of open science the Helmholtz Association maintains the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office 11 Notes EditForschungszentrum Karlsruhe is often abbreviated as FZK although this violates the rights of Feuerverzinkerei FZK Karlsruhe References Edit a b c Facts and Figures Helmholtz Association Retrieved 28 March 2021 a b Helmholtz Association About Us retrieved 24 May 2012 Ten institutions that dominated science in 2015 Retrieved 28 May 2019 10 institutions that dominated science in 2017 Retrieved 28 May 2019 Introduction to the Nature Index Retrieved 28 May 2019 Pressemitteilung vom 22 Juni 2009 Per Unterschrift besiegelt das FZD wechselt zur Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren german FZD 22 May 2009 Archived from the original on 7 March 2009 Retrieved 22 May 2009 Press release Helmholtz Institut kommt nach Wurzburg German Helmholtz Association Research retrieved 29 Sept 2015 Helmholtz Verbund Regionale Klimaanderungen REKLIM Suddeutsches Klimaburo Retrieved 4 November 2013 Germany Global Open Access Portal UNESCO Retrieved 7 May 2017 Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office Helmholtz AssociationExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Helmholtz Gemeinschaft Official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Helmholtz Association amp oldid 1101129920, wikipedia, wiki, book, 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