Leibniz Association

The Leibniz Association (German: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft or Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) is a union of German non-university research institutes from various disciplines.

Leibniz Association

Formation	1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Type	non-profit research organization
Headquarters	Berlin, Germany
President	Prof. Dr. Martina Brockmeier
Main organ	Senate
Budget	€1.9 billion (2019)
Staff	20,000
Website	www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

Chausseehof building, Chausseestrasse 111 in Berlin, seat of the Leibniz Association since 2011^[1]

Funding and Structure

As of 2020, 96 non-university research institutes and service institutions for science are part of 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. Taken together, the Leibniz Institutes employ 20,000 people and have a budget of €1.9 billion.^[2] Leibniz Institutes are funded publicly to equal parts by the federal government and the Federal states (Bundesländer).

Every Leibniz institution is evaluated by the Leibniz Senate regularly, at a minimum of once every seven years. The evaluation is used as a benchmark of quality with respect to the work and research carried out by the institutes.^[3]

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 an EU bureau in Brussels. Since 2014, the engineer Matthias Kleiner has been president of the Leibniz Association, with Christiane Neumann acting as secretary general.

In 2020, the Nature Index based on scientific publication rates, ranked the Leibniz Association as 3rd in Germany and 56th across the globe.^[4]

Sections

A - Humanities and Educational Research

Name	Location	Initials	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
Germanisches Nationalmuseum	Nürnberg	GNM
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe	Marburg	HI	www.herder-institut.de
Leibniz Institute for the German Language	Mannheim	IDS	www.ids-mannheim.de
Institute of Contemporary History	München-Berlin	IfZ
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
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
Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Simon Dubnow Institute)	Leipzig	DI	http://www.dubnow.de/institut/aktuelles/

B - Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research

Name	Location	Initials	Website
Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences	Hannover	ARL	www.arl-net.org
German Institute for Economic Research	Berlin	DIW	www.diw.de
GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences	Mannheim-Köln	GESIS	www.gesis.org
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies	Hamburg	GIGA	www.giga-hamburg.de
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies	Halle	IAMO	www.iamo.de
Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut	Hamburg	HBI	www.leibniz-hbi.de
Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography	Leipzig	IfL	www.ifl-leipzig.com/
Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich	München	ifo	www.ifo.de
Kiel Institute for the World Economy	Kiel	IfW
Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development	Dresden	IÖR	www.ioer.de
Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space	Erkner	IRS	www.irs-net.de
Halle Institute for Economic Research	Halle	IWH	www.iwh-halle.de
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt	Frankfurt am Main	PRIF	www.hsfk.de
RWI — Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung	Essen	RWI	www.rwi-essen.de
Leibniz Institute for Financial Research	Frankfurt/Main	SAFE	safe-frankfurt.de
Social Science Research Center Berlin	Berlin	WZB
German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics	Kiel & Hamburg	ZBW	www.zbw-kiel.de
Centre for European Economic Research	Mannheim	ZEW

C - Life Sciences

Name	Location	Initials	Website
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine	Hamburg	BNITM	www.bni-hamburg.de
Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology	Bremen	BIPS	www.bips.uni-bremen.de
German Diabetes Center – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf	Düsseldorf	DDZ
German Research Centre for Food Chemistry	Garching	DFA	www.dfal.de
German Institute of Human Nutrition	Potsdam-Rehbrücke	DIfE	www.dife.de
German Rheumatism Research Center	Berlin	DRFZ	www.drfz.de
German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research	Göttingen	DPZ	www.dpz.eu
Leibniz-Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures	Braunschweig	DSMZ	www.dsmz.de
Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology	Dummerstorf	FBN	www.fbn-dummerstorf.de
Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute	Jena	FLI
Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie	Berlin	FMP	www.fmp-berlin.de
Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences	Borstel	FZB
Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute	Jena	HKI	www.hki-jena.de
Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology	Hamburg	HPI	www.hpi-hamburg.de
Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors	Dortmund	IfADo
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry	Halle	IPB	www.ipb-halle.de
Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research	Gatersleben	IPK	www.ipk-gatersleben.de
Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine	Düsseldorf	IUF	www.iuf.uni-duesseldorf.de
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research	Berlin	IZW	www.izw-berlin.de/
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology	Magdeburg	LIN
Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research	Mainz	LIR	lir-mainz.de
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin	Berlin	MfN	www.mfn-berlin.de
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung	Frankfurt am Main	SGN
Alexander Koenig Research Museum, Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity	Bonn	ZFMK	www.zfmk.de

D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering

Name	Location	Initials	Website
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam	Potsdam	AIP	www.aip.de
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Hoechstfrequenztechnik	Berlin	FBH
DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen	Aachen	DWI	www.dwi.rwth-aachen.de
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure	Karlsruhe	FIZ KA
Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics	Kühlungsborn	IAP	www.iap-kborn.de
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research	Dresden	IFW	www.ifw-dresden.de
Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics / Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik	Frankfurt (Oder)	IHP	www.ihp-microelectronics.com
Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology	Jena	IPHT	www.ipht-jena.de
Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth	Berlin	IKZ	www.ikz-berlin.de
Leibniz Institute for New Materials	Saarbrücken	INM	www.inm-gmbh.de/
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology	Greifswald	INP	www.inp-greifswald.de
Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification	Leipzig	IOM
Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research	Dresden	IPF	www.ipfdd.de
Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences	Dortmund	ISAS	www.isas.de
Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics	Freiburg	KIS	www.leibniz-kis.de/en/
Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics	Wadern	LZI	www.dagstuhl.de
Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock	Rostock	LIKAT	www.catalysis.de
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy	Berlin	MBI	www.mbi-berlin.de
Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics	Oberwolfach	MFO	www.mfo.de
Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics	Berlin	PDI	www.pdi-berlin.de
German National Library of Science and Technology, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology	Hannover	TIB	www.tib.eu
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics	Berlin	WIAS	www.wias-berlin.de

E - Environmental Sciences

Name	Location	Initials	Website
Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy	Potsdam-Bornim	ATB	www.atb-potsdam.de
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research	Leipzig	TROPOS
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
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

References

1. "Chausseestraße 111 - Sitz der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft". leibniz-gemeinschaft.de.
2. "About the Leibniz Association". www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de.
3. "Leibniz Gemeinschaft: About us / Evaluation". www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
4. "Leibniz Association Nature Index 2020". www.natureindex.com.

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