Leibniz Association

The Leibniz Association ( completely scientific community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Association) is an association of German research institutes from different disciplines. Seat of the Leibniz Association is Berlin.

The Leibniz Association is named after the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ( 1646-1716 ). Since 1 July 2010, the sociologist Karl Ulrich Mayer is president of the scientific organization. Scientific Vice- President are Matthias Beller ( Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Rostock ), Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse ( Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media Research Center, Tübingen) and Hildegard Westphal ( Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen); administrative vice president is Henry Bassler ( Science Center Berlin for Social Research ).

Leibniz Association

For Leibniz Association include 89 ( 2014), non-university research institutes and service facilities for research. The Leibniz - Institute ranges from the natural sciences, engineering and environmental sciences, business, social and space sciences to the humanities. Leibniz Institute interdisciplinary and combine basic research with application close. They maintain close cooperation with universities, industry and other partners at home and abroad. The Leibniz Institutes employ about 17,200 people and will have a total budget of 1.5 billion euros ( 2013).

The Community sees its own self-understanding their historical origins in the existing since the 1970s " Blue List ", which since 1992, including several that emerged from the Academy of Sciences of the GDR research institutions whose academic potential due to the evaluation by the Science and had been regarded in the future as worthy of preservation and worthy of support. The name Blue List for the federal- funding model goes back to the color of a file system and is now obsolete colloquial. In the federal budget, which is an attachment to the annual Budget Act, the term is used " Institutes of the Blue List " as before.

The facilities have joined the Leibniz Association to perceive cross-institutional tasks. This includes, for example, in times of scarcity of research funds from public hands to work together for the strengthening of the institutions or to promote cooperation with universities and industry.

Since 2007, the Leibniz Association awards the Hans -Olaf Henkel Award - Award for science policy, was the first Benno Parthier.

Leibniz Institute

The Community is no carrier organization to the Institute, but a voluntary association founded to act together in public emphatically can.

Leibniz Institutes are institutions and research institutions that receive joint basic funding from the federal government and the states. In general, the key financing: 50 % federal funds, 50 % state funds. The federal funds come in large part from the budget of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research ( 281 million euros for 49 institutions in 2007). The country's resources are derived from the resources of the country of domicile of the respective Leibniz Institute and a grant by the other countries. The distribution of this subsidy to the remaining states will be determined by the Bund- Länder Commission on the basis of population and tax revenue in Königstein. In addition to this core funding third-party funds are used. In 2011, the total budget of all facilities amounted to approximately 1.4 billion euros.

Planning security through continuous increases in their budgets is given by the Pact for Research and Innovation.

Origins

The origins of the Leibniz Association go back to the founding years of the Republic. In March 1949, the German states joined a government agreement on the " financing of scientific research institutions " - the king Steiner State Convention called - in which they committed themselves, at larger research institutions of national importance, whose deficit exceeds the financial capacity of a single country, to fulfill the research tasks provide necessary funds together.

Twenty years later, won this Agreement constitutional status, as 1969 Article 91b extended the basic law, and federal and state constitutional opportunity arose to collaborate on research programs of regional importance and federal science policy interest. In 1977 published federal and state governments a list of 46 facilities that were jointly funded under the provisions of Article 91b. The blue paper on which the list was published, gave her the name " Blue List ".

German unification in 1990 brought for the common support of the federal and state governments sustainable changes, since Article 38 of the Unification Treaty dictated the integration of science and research landscape of the former GDR into the West German system.

As part of the restructuring of the East German scientific landscape, it came through the recording by the Science positively evaluated former institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in the joint research funding almost a doubling in the number of " Blue List " institutes; the number of beneficiaries increased from 47 in 1989 to 81 in 1992. The admissions changed the face of the " Blue List " and moved the scientific focus in the natural sciences, engineering, agricultural, life and space science research.

Creation of the Community

On January 24 In 1991, representatives of the first 32 facilities in Dortmund the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blue List " (AG -BL), which was across institutions active especially in administrative matters. Four years later named it in "Science Community Blue List " ( WBL ) to which was followed in 1997, including the name " Scientific Association Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz " (WGL ) with the first president, the physicist Ingolf Volker Hertel (* 1941). With this name change, at the same time also documented the process of self-organization which continues independently-owned facilities, the stronger substantive cooperation was related to the goal of the regular exchange of information and experience sharing, cooperation on common interests and the perception of these interests to the outside, d h in the science policy and science administrative area, but also in general in public.

To this end, the Leibniz Association has since 1995 on a branch in Bonn since 2000 and has an office in Berlin. The strengthening of the structures is also reflected in the under the second president, the physicist Frank Pobell, advanced creation of an externally occupy the Senate as a supervisory and advisory body in November 1998. Between the needs of a modern science marketing statement supporting led the community since 2002 a single "corporate design "and has since been under the brand name " Leibniz Association "on.

Since 1979, the bodies of the " Blue List " were regularly evaluated by the Science Council to guarantee a high performance level of this work and be able to initiate a targeted development at an early stage. Most institutions convinced the evaluation commissions with their scientific quality, some directed their research work from new and few left the joint research funding from.

Since 2003, the externally appointed Senate of the Leibniz Association evaluating the institutions of the Leibniz Association. The Science Council has developed in its opinion on System Evaluation of the " Blue List " of November 2000 a proposal. The decisions of the Joint Science Conference (GWK ) for eligibility of the facilities of the Leibniz Association is now based as a rule on the Senate's position. At least every seven years, the Committee directs research funding GWK one such inspection.

Sections and Institutes of the Leibniz Association

Sections

The institutes of the Leibniz Association are grouped into five sections.

Section A - Humanities and Education Research

Section B - Economic and social sciences, space sciences

Section C - Life Sciences

Section D - mathematics, natural sciences and engineering

Section E - Environmental Sciences

Interdisciplinary network of infrastructure facilities (IVI )

" 18 Leibniz institutions whose work has a particularly high proportion of scientific services, have infrastructure joined the Interdisciplinary Network ( IVI ). [ ..] Scientific services include the development and application of new information and communication technologies, as well as a close cooperation with information professionals from industry and research. The research community needs a reliable infrastructure, information, communication and publication possible. In addition, the scientific infrastructure of the Leibniz Association provide services for the practice and thus also provide a current benefit to the public dar. "

Associate members of the Leibniz Association

Retired Institute

President of the Leibniz Association

Publications of the Leibniz Association (selection)

The Leibniz Association has a number of key publications, so the magazine " Leibniz Journal", a yearbook and an annual report.