Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion

The Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion links 96 in­de­pen­dent re­search fa­cil­i­ties. The Leib­niz In­sti­tutes work in an in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary man­ner and ad­dress so­cially, eco­nom­i­cally and eco­log­i­cally rel­e­vant is­sues. They are or­ga­nized into five sec­tions that deal with dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines. There is a con­stant ex­change of ideas within and be­tween them. The sci­en­tific pro­file of the Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion is very broad and in­cludes the fol­low­ing areas:

• hu­man­i­ties and ed­u­ca­tional re­search,
• eco­nom­ics, so­cial sci­ences, spa­tial re­search
• life sci­ences
• math­e­mat­ics, nat­ural sci­ences, en­gi­neer­ing
• en­vi­ron­men­tal re­search.

The IHP be­longs to Sec­tion D "Math­e­mat­ics, Nat­ural Sci­ences, En­gi­neer­ing", which deals with new tech­nolo­gies and ma­te­ri­als as fun­da­men­tal dri­vers of eco­nomic progress in a mod­ern in­dus­trial so­ci­ety. The aim is to meet the chal­lenges aris­ing from major so­ci­etal is­sues such as the en­ergy tran­si­tion, dig­i­tal­iza­tion or the aging of so­ci­ety.

A key focus of the Leib­niz in­sti­tutes is close na­tional and in­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion with uni­ver­si­ties, in­dus­try and other part­ners. Par­tic­u­lar im­por­tance is at­tached to co­op­er­a­tion with uni­ver­si­ties, which is re­flected by the for­ma­tion of "Joint Labs". The IHP was one of the first in­sti­tu­tions in the Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion with this form of co­op­er­a­tion. IHP sci­en­tists work closely to­gether with stu­dents from Pots­dam, Cot­tbus, Wildau, Berlin, and also on the in­ter­na­tional level with stu­dents from Poznań, Zielona Góra, and Is­tan­bul.

The in­sti­tutes of the Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion em­ploy around 20,000 staff mem­bers in­clud­ing more than 10,000 sci­en­tists. Due to their im­por­tance for so­ci­ety, the in­sti­tutes of the Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion are jointly fi­nanced by the fed­eral and state gov­ern­ments. The fi­nan­cial vol­ume amounts to 1.9 bil­lion euros. The Leib­niz As­so­ci­a­tion's in­sti­tu­tions are sub­ject to a trans­par­ent and in­de­pen­dent eval­u­a­tion process by the Leib­niz Sen­ate on a reg­u­lar basis, after seven years at the lat­est.

Fur­ther in­for­ma­tion at: https://www.leibniz-​gemeinschaft.de/en.html