Working group of departmental research institutions
The Berlin Working Group of Departmental Research Institutions is an association of federal institutions with research tasks in Germany that was founded on February 9, 2005 .
These are each assigned to a federal ministry and are usually referred to as federal research institutes , federal agencies , federal institutes or federal offices . Special tasks of these institutions, in addition to the actual research , are, on the one hand, advising ministries and other political bodies on decisions and, on the other hand, services in the areas of testing, approval, regulation and standardization as well as monitoring.
According to the company, the aim is to represent the interests of the departmental research institutions vis-à-vis politics, the public and other research organizations. In addition , an increased quality assurance of scientific work through external evaluations is aimed for , especially in cooperation with the Science Council . The first individual statements of the Science Council on seven departmental research institutions were published in May 2006.
The governing body is a board of directors consisting of five scientists from participating research institutions.
Members
- Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (Frankfurt)
- Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bonn)
- Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (Hamburg)
- Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Salzgitter)
- Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (Dortmund)
- Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (Hanover)
- Federal Institute for Hydrology (Koblenz)
- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Berlin)
- Federal Highway Research Institute (Bergisch Gladbach)
- Federal Institute for Hydraulic Engineering (Karlsruhe)
- Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bonn)
- Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research in the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Bonn)
- Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (Bonn)
- Federal Institute for Population Research (Wiesbaden)
- Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe (Oldenburg)
- Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Berlin)
- Federal Center for Health Education (Cologne)
- German Weather Service (Offenbach)
- German Archaeological Institute (Berlin)
- German Development Institute (Bonn)
- German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information (Cologne)
- German Youth Institute (Munich)
- German Center for Aging (Berlin)
- Research area for water- borne noise and geophysics of the Defense Technology Service for Ships and Naval Weapons, Maritime Technology and Research (Kiel)
- Friedrich Loeffler Institute - Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (Riems Island)
- Institute for labor market and occupational research of the Federal Employment Agency (Nuremberg)
- Institute for Microbiology of the Bundeswehr (Munich)
- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Bundeswehr (Munich)
- Institute for Radiobiology of the German Armed Forces (Munich)
- Julius Kühn Institute - Federal Research Institute for Cultivated Plants (Quedlinburg)
- Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute - Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forests and Fisheries (Braunschweig)
- Max Rubner Institute - Federal Research Institute for Nutrition and Food (Karlsruhe)
- Max Weber Foundation - German Humanities Institutes Abroad (Bonn)
- Paul Ehrlich Institute - Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedical Medicines (Langen / Hessen)
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Braunschweig and Berlin)
- Robert Koch Institute - Federal Institute for Infectious Diseases and Non-Communicable Diseases (Berlin)
- Maritime Medical Institute of the Navy (Kronshagen)
- Federal Environment Agency (Dessau-Roßlau)
- Defense Science Institute for Protective Technologies - NBC Protection (Munster)
- Defense Science Institute for Materials, Explosives and Operating Materials (Erding)
- Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr (Potsdam)
- Center for Geoinformation of the German Armed Forces ( Mercator Barracks , Euskirchen )