Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis INT

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fraunhofer Institute for
Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis
Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis
New Fraunhofer INT building in Euskirchen
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Fraunhofer Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Euskirchen
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Physics , biology , chemistry , computer science , electrical engineering , mathematics , political science , economics , social sciences , humanities , technology management
Areas of expertise: Technology foresight / technology analysis / research planning / technology awareness; Nuclear and electromagnetic effects / detection methods / security policy
Basic funding: Federal government (90%), states (10%)
Management: Michael Lauster
Employee: approx. 120
Homepage: [1]

The Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis (INT) is an institution of the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research e. V. It is based in Euskirchen and deals with the topics of technology analysis and technology foresight, safety research, research planning and research into nuclear and electromagnetic effects.

history

Fraunhofer INT goes back to a project group of the Institute for Pure and Applied Nuclear Physics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . The group, which was founded in the 1960s, was commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Defense and with administrative assistance from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to develop basic principles for the protection of defense material against the effects of nuclear weapons . In 1968, the project group created the independent Institute for Radiation Protection based in Stohl near Kiel, which increasingly dealt with the areas of defense technology foresight, trend analyzes and prognoses. In 1974 the Institute for Radiation Protection was officially incorporated into the Fraunhofer Society under the new name Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis. As a result of the close cooperation with the BMVg, the move to Euskirchen started in 1977.

Research priorities

Fraunhofer INT comprises two major subject areas, each of which is processed by a scientific department. On the one hand, these are the Technology Analysis and Strategic Planning (TASP) department and the Nuclear and Electromagnetic Effects (NE) department. The departments are in turn divided into six business areas and two supporting groups:

The TASP department deals with technological futures, technology foresight, innovation management and supports long-term research planning on this basis. It is divided into the following business areas:

  • Defense technology future analysis is responsible for the military area and bundles the tasks of TASP for clients such as the Federal Ministry of Defense .
  • Public technology and innovation planning conducts research for public, non-military clients such as the European Commission , the EU Parliament and other national and international actors.
  • Corporate Technology Foresight supports the strategic planning of companies from a wide variety of industries.
  • Group: Tools and Methods develops and improves tools and methods for future research and planning support, such as an assistance system for early technology detection for the scientific support of the work in the TASP department.

The NE department deals with experimental and theoretical research on ionizing and electromagnetic radiation, their effects on electronic components and detection methods. It comprises the following business areas:

  • Nuclear Safety Policy and Detection Processes performs theoretical simulations and experimental measurements in order to research and develop processes for the identification of nuclear and radioactive materials.
  • Electromagnetic Effects and Threats deals with electromagnetic fields and what effects they can have on electronics and develops measurement methods for them.
  • Nuclear Effects in Electronics and Optics researches the effects of ionizing radiation and carries out radiation tests with electronic , optoelectronic and optical components and systems.
  • Group: Scientific and technical infrastructure , supports the NE department with a precision engineering workshop and an electronics workshop for the manufacture and maintenance of special parts and electronics for experiments .

Cooperations

The institute is one of ten members of the Fraunhofer Group for Defense and Security Research, also known as the Fraunhofer Group for VVS. All related institutes on the subject of defense and security are pooled in this association . The aim is to identify potential dangers in both civil and defense technology at an early stage, to avoid them and to keep consequential damage as low as possible. Fraunhofer INT is also one of four founding institutes of the “Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research ”, which started its work in July 2017. The focus of the group is on strengthening the research, technology and innovation policy dialogue between politics, business, society and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. On the initiative of Fraunhofer INT, the “Fraunhofer Space Alliance” was founded in 2013, with Michael Lauster, director of the INT institute, as its spokesman. It is an amalgamation of 15 Fraunhofer institutes that contribute to applied research in the field of space technology . The “Fraunhofer Space Alliance” conducts research in the fields of communication , navigation , materials, electronics , optical systems , protection technologies and sensor systems . In the university area, there is a collaboration with the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) in the form of the chair for technology analysis and forecasting in security research, which Michael Lauster holds. In addition, the institute cooperates with the Bonn Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences in the field of technology management and technology foresight and the Ravensburg-Weingarten University of Applied Sciences in the field of technology foresight and technological futures.

Infrastructure

The institute employs around 120 people, including over 60 scientists from the fields of natural and engineering sciences , but also from economics , humanities and social sciences . Fraunhofer INT's budget volume in the 2018 financial year was around € 10 million. The institute receives regular basic funding from the federal and state governments and basic funding from the Federal Ministry of Defense . Fraunhofer INT generates the rest of the budget through contract research with clients such as companies from industry, the public sector and associations or organizations, nationally and internationally.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ https://www.int.fraunhofer.de/de/im_profil.html
  2. ^ Annual report 2014 , Fraunhofer INT website, p. 9, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Overview of the business areas , Fraunhofer INT website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Defense future analysis , Fraunhofer INT website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ Public Technology and Innovation Planning business unit , Fraunhofer INT website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ Corporate Technology Foresight business unit , Fraunhofer INT website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  7. ↑ Tools and Methods Group , Fraunhofer INT Website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ Business Unit Nuclear Safety Policy and Detection Methods , Fraunhofer INT website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ Business Unit Electromagnetic Effects and Threats , Fraunhofer INT Website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  10. ^ Business Unit Nuclear Effects in Electronics and Optics , Fraunhofer INT website, accessed on December 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ Annual report 2016 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Fraunhofer INT Website, p. 66, accessed on December 18, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.int.fraunhofer.de
  12. ↑ Fraunhofer Group for Defense and Security Research , accessed on December 18, 2017.
  13. ↑ Fraunhofer Group for Innovation Research , accessed on December 18, 2017.
  14. ↑ Fraunhofer Space Alliance , accessed on December 18, 2017.
  15. ↑ Annual report 2016 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fraunhofer INT Website, p. 74, accessed on December 18, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.int.fraunhofer.de
  16. ↑ Annual report 2016 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), Fraunhofer INT website, pp. 8 + 9, accessed on December 18, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.int.fraunhofer.de


Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 44.4 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 25.6"  E