Max Planck Foundation
| Max Planck Foundation (MPF) |
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| Legal form: | Public foundation under civil law |
| Purpose: | Procurement of funds to promote science and research by the Max Planck Society |
| Chair: | Stefan von Holtzbrinck |
| Consist: | since June 23, 2006 |
| Founder: | Stefan von Holtzbrinck Reinhard Pöllath |
| Foundation capital: | 490 million euros |
| Seat: | Munich |
| Website: | www.maxplanckfoerderstiftung.org |
The non-profit Max Planck Funding Foundation (MPF) is a foundation under civil law with legal capacity and is based in Munich . It provides funds for "excellent, innovative and forward-looking projects and research plans" of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science . It is supported by a nationwide initiative by private sponsors.
history
The initiators are Stefan von Holtzbrinck , CEO of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group and Reinhard Pöllath , lawyer (P + P Pöllath + Partners) and member of the board of directors in large companies. On June 23, 2006, the Max Planck Foundation was recognized as a foundation by the foundation supervision of the government of Upper Bavaria. Trust foundations within the MPF are the Hermann Neuhaus Foundation, the Dr. Helmut Storz Foundation, the Werner Heisenberg Foundation, the Hanrieder Foundation for Excellence and the Dr. Gerhard and Irmgard Gross Foundation.
organs
- Board of Trustees
- Dr. Stefan von Holtzbrinck (Chairman), Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
- Dr. Andrea from Drygalski
- Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Angela Friederici , Vice President of the Max Planck Society
- Dr. Horst Goss
- Rüdiger Hey
- Prof. Dr. Wulf von Schimmelmann
- Dr. May Shana'a
- Martin Stratmann , President of the Max Planck Society
The board consists of Rüdiger Willems, Secretary General of the Max Planck Society, Paul Lerbinger and Reinhard Pöllath.
aims
The foundation supports selected projects and initiatives of the Max Planck Society in the field of science and research and has the following goals:
- Funding basic research
The support foundation provides funds in the areas of basic research in which the state can no longer finance this due to tight budgets.
- Preservation of freedom of research
The freedom of research and the autonomy of scientists must be guaranteed and must not be geared towards rapid economic success in basic research. Financial resources from the Max Planck Foundation help to adhere to and defend this principle.
- Cutting-edge research in international competition
Many national and international research institutions compete for the best brains. The foundation supports the Max Planck Society in safeguarding Germany as a location for science and in competing internationally for top scientific talent, research and projects. This should be guaranteed by
- attractive offers to attract outstanding scientists from all over the world
- Financing of top research and researchers if they no longer meet the requirements for state funding (e.g. retirement )
- Ensuring optimal working conditions for top-level research and researchers
- Education of outstanding young scientists
- Promotion of scientific elites
- Funding of projects that close the gap between basic and applied research or are on the threshold of these areas
- Project funding in innovative areas, for example in cancer and aging research or in energy generation.
Projects
(This is a non-exhaustive list of various projects in favor of the meanwhile 83 Max Planck Institutes of the Max Planck Society)
- Nobel laureate Theodor Hänsch received attractive offers from the USA after his retirement. With private funds, it was possible to keep Hänsch at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching until 2011 .
- Selected foreign students with a bachelor's degree are offered a doctoral program (approx. 70 students per year).
- The Foundation supports two research projects at Max Planck Institutes that would not have come about with state funding: one project in cancer research at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry , another on personalized, tailor-made therapy in depression research at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry .
Sponsor
The foundation will u. a. supported by Martin Brost, Klaus Neugebauer , P + P Pöllath + Partners, Helmut Storz and Hermann Neuhaus.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ see page of the Foundation for 2015
- ↑ https://www.maxplanckfoundation.org/team/
- ↑ Theodor Hänsch turns 70: With the jelly laser to the Nobel Prize. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .