Research auxiliary facility

Auxiliary facilities for research is a funding line of the German Research Foundation (DFG) that has existed since 1957. The auxiliary facility is “a facility of supra-regional importance, in which high-quality personnel and equipment requirements for scientific and scientific-technical services for research are concentrated in one place. It is a scientifically important instrument for strengthening the research-relevant infrastructure of science and thus forms an essential prerequisite for maintaining and increasing the efficiency of research. "

The auxiliary facilities are designed for the long term.

Existing auxiliary facilities for research (as of 2016)

• Research ship Maria S. Merian
• Research vessel Meteor
• EU Cooperation Center of Science Organizations - KoWi

Former auxiliary institutions (selection)

• From 2005 the DFG funded the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ) as an auxiliary research facility. The iFQ was integrated into the German Center for Higher Education and Science Research as Department 2 "Research System & Science Dynamics" on January 1st, 2016.
• Central Institute for Laboratory Animal Breeding, Hannover-Linden (1957–1993)
• Central Seismological Observatory , Graefenberg
• Central Laboratory for Geochronology , Münster

Web links

• DFG website on auxiliary facilities for research (as of April 2020)
• Report on the 30th anniversary of Meteor on the DFG website (September 2016)
• IFQ website (as of October 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See chronology of the DFG programs, accessed April 7, 2020 .
2. ↑ see annual report 1992 of the DFG, page 174, normative data of the institution under GND 63049-4
3. ↑ see Spiegel report on the decision to close in 1993
4. ↑ see DFG Annual Report 1996, page 201, DFG Annual Report 1999, no longer listed in the 2002 Annual Report
5. ↑ see DFG Annual Report 1996, page 201, DFG Annual Report 1999, no longer listed in the 2002 Annual Report