Einstein Foundation Berlin

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Einstein Foundation Berlin
Logo of the Einstein Foundation Berlin
Legal form: legal foundation under civil law
Purpose: Promotion of science and research
Chair: Günter Stock
Consist: since May 11, 2009
Founder: State of Berlin
Seat: Berlin
Website: einsteinfoundation.de

The Einstein Foundation Berlin is a non-profit German foundation established by the State of Berlin in 2009 to promote science and research in Berlin .

Foundation goals and funding

The funding of the fellowships, professorships and projects selected by an independent scientific commission is secured from proceeds of the foundation's capital of five million euros and state funds. In the Senate resolution for the establishment of the foundation, 35 million euros each and 40 million euros in 2010 and 2011 from the framework plan Knowledge creates Berlin's future were provided for. The actual funding amounts, however, were far below. For the years 2014 and 2015, the Berlin Senate envisaged a considerable cut due to the budget situation. The House of Representatives revised the decision to 4.5 in 2014 and 7.5 million euros in 2015. In addition, the foundation receives private funding: From 2015 to the end of 2017, the Damp Foundation supports the Einstein Foundation Berlin with up to three million euros annually.

Eligible institutions are the Free University of Berlin , the Humboldt University of Berlin , the Technical University of Berlin and the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as the Charité . The publicly funded research institutions in Berlin can be funded as cooperation partners of the institutions eligible to apply. These include above all: Institutes of the Fraunhofer Society , the Helmholtz Association , the Leibniz Association and the Max Planck Society . The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is also a cooperation partner.

The goals of the foundation include the cross-institutional funding of Berlin research projects, national and international marketing for the research location and better cooperation between university, non-university and private-sector institutions. The Einstein Foundation Berlin also acts as the organizer, until around 2010 with the international science conference Falling Walls on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9th. In addition, the foundation organizes the public event series “Meeting Einstein”.

The board consists of Günter Stock (chairman), Erika Fischer-Lichte , Martin Grötschel , Ursula-Friederike habenicht and Dorothea Kübler.

effect

The Mayor of Vienna Michael Häupl announced in May 2017 that they would use the Einstein Foundation Berlin as a model to set up a coordination office for technologies in the digital world in Austria .

Programs

Einstein Center Digital Future

The board spokesman of the Einstein Center Digital Future,
Odej Kao (left), and the governing mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller (right), at the inauguration of the Einstein Center Digital Future. In the background Erwin Böttinger (center) and Johann-Christoph Freytag (far right).

On April 3, 2017, the Governing Mayor of Berlin , Michael Müller, inaugurated the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) in the Robert Koch Forum at Wilhelmstrasse 67 in Berlin-Mitte . The center is an inter-university facility for research into the digital transformation of civil society . A total of 38.5 million euros will flow into the public-private partnership project. The goals are to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research and to train young scientists. The center is to create 50 new professorships and to network the projects of universities, research institutes, industrial companies and federal ministries.

Board members

The board of directors of the Einstein Center Digital Future consists of five people who have been assigned different areas of responsibility and who belong to the various research institutions:

Einstein research project

The program supports innovative scientific and creative projects in Berlin. The projects must involve various scientific institutions. They are subsidized for a maximum of three years. The projects funded included the Institute for Space Experiments by the artist Olafur Eliasson .

Einstein professorship

The "Einstein Professorship" program supports Berlin universities in appointment and stay negotiations with high-ranking scientists once the university has reached its performance limit. Hélène Esnault is among the current Einstein professors .

The Einstein Foundation is also funding a visiting professorship for the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Einstein Visiting Fellowship

Einstein Visiting Fellows are internationally renowned scientists who, through frequent, shorter guest stays and the establishment of a working group, integrate themselves long-term into Berlin science. The current Einstein Visiting Fellows include Dimitri Gutas , Rahul Pandharipande , Francisco Santos , Vasudevan Srinivas , Bernd Sturmfels and Dieter Vogt . Former Einstein Visiting Fellows include Nancy Fraser , Wendelin Werner , James Sethian and Craig Calhoun .

Einstein BIH Visiting Fellowship

The "Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow" program is aimed at scientists who support the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) with their scientific expertise. The program is a cooperation between the Charité Foundation and the Einstein Foundation Berlin. Nobel laureate Thomas Südhof is one of the beneficiaries of this program .

Einstein Junior Fellowship

With the Einstein Junior Fellow program, the foundation supports excellent young scientists in Berlin with a position and the associated funding of the respective research project with up to 100,000 euros.

Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellowship

Through the “Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellow” program, young Berlin scientists can apply for funds to include a foreign postdoctoral fellow in their working group.

Einstein Center

Berlin research associations, which are already funded by third parties, can join together to form an "Einstein Center" in order to build cross-institutional research and teaching networks. The first Einstein Center was launched in 2014: the DFG Research Center Matheon , the Berlin Mathematical School and the German Center for Mathematics Teacher Training founded the Einstein Center for Mathematics "ECMath". As of 2019 there are six Einstein Centers in Berlin:

Einstein Circle

In an Einstein circle, a fixed, self-organized group of scientists work together on a topic for a maximum of three years. Members of at least two Berlin scientific institutions must be among the participants in the circle.

Einstein Research Fellowship

Berlin professors who want to do research at a non-university institution can apply for funding for a maximum of two years' representation through the “Einstein Research Fellowship” program. Gregory Jackson is one of the current Einstein Research Fellows , and Stefan Rinke is a former Einstein Research Fellow .

Scientific events

Scientific events up to a size of 50 participants can be financed by the Einstein Foundation Berlin. Most of the participants must come from a non-university Berlin research institution.

Individual evidence

  1. Supplementary Budget 2009 of the State of Berlin, p. 13: Chapter 1080, Title 68570
  2. Article from December 16, 2008 on berlin.de
  3. ^ Article of July 28, 2013 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  4. Article from July 3, 2014 in the Tagesspiegel
  5. Article of May 29, 2015 in the Tagesspiegel
  6. “Einstein Center” for Vienna Research , ORF.at , May 10, 2017, accessed on May 12, 2017
  7. Einstein Center Digital Future opened , press release of the Einstein Foundation Berlin of April 3, 2017, accessed on April 4, 2017
  8. a b Digital Future Begins , Einstein Center Digital Future, accessed on April 4, 2017
  9. Video from October 26, 2015 on DIE WELT Online
  10. ^ Einstein Centers - Einstein Foundation Berlin. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .

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