Science Forum Ruhr

The Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr e. V. - Working Group of Research Institutes in the Ruhr Area is an association of research institutions in the Ruhr area founded in 2004 , in which contacts between the scientific institutions and with universities, politics, business and administration as well as the dialogue between science and the public are to be promoted. The Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr advocates guaranteeing the financial basis and competitiveness of research in the Ruhr area in order to strengthen the region's innovative strength. The office of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr e. V. was at the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen until 2012 and at Fraunhofer UMSICHT in Oberhausen since 2012 . From the original twelve founding institutes, the number rose to 45 members (as of 2015). Cooperation projects within the forum concern interdisciplinary issues from areas such as health, climate, environment and social change. The activities of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV include the implementation of various events, joint meetings of employees of the member institutes under the umbrella of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr and a monthly newsletter that informs about the activities of the member institutes, publications and job offers from the research network.

aims

The Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr e. V. pursues the following goals in its work:

Promotion of cooperation between regional research institutes in the Ruhr area
Stimulating cooperation and joint projects
Maintaining contact with universities and partners in education, culture, business and politics
Strengthening the science culture in the Ruhr area and the dialogue between science and the public
To offer a forum for the member institutes in which joint meetings can discuss the implementation of knowledge transfer in society.
Promotion of interdisciplinary cooperation
Strengthening application-oriented research

History and profile

The Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV was constituted as an association on November 5, 2004. Initially, the research network was funded by the Krupp Foundation , and later by the Mercator Foundation . The Mercator Foundation supported the Ruhr Science Forum on the one hand by supporting the office of the Ruhr Science Forum at the Essen Institute for Cultural Studies from 2008 to 2011. On the other hand, specific events and activities of the Science Forum Ruhr were funded (e.g. international science fair "Wissenswelten" on July 15, 2011), events of the series "Science in Focus" (2009-2010), the ring event "The aging society - Challenges and opportunities ”(2009–2010) Since the end of the financial support from Stiftung Mercator, the network has been financed by membership fees and donations. Originally, cooperation and exchange between members corresponded more to the formal clustering of the institutes according to discipline. Over time, the collaboration has focused on important areas of the scientific discourse, which better exploits the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration between the members. Several institutes of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV are continuously working together on the topic-related platforms of health , industrial culture and transformation and sustainability (as of 2015). A transdisciplinary opening of the platforms to administration, business, politics and culture is intended.

Events

The following events have been carried out in the past from the working group of research institutes, which are networked under the umbrella of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr:

Real life and health in structurally weak regions. Multiple problem areas - energetic answers. An event of the research platform health of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV in cooperation with the city of Gelsenkirchen. 20th February 2014
Science in focus: (De-) stabilization of a region? The political view of the changes in the Arab world (as part of the "Science in Focus" series of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV)
International Science Fair, Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr (2011)
Participation in the Ruhrschnellweg campaign on July 18, 2010 (topic "The aging society - challenges and opportunities")
Interdisciplinary lecture series "The aging society - challenges and opportunities" (2010)
Science Ruhr on Tour - Focus People (2008)
Energy for People in the Ruhr Area - Discussion Event (2007)
Science Fair Ruhr (2006)
The humanities and cultural studies, from a practical point of view. About Use, Application and Practice - Panel Discussion (2006)
Quo Vadis, labor market in the Ruhr area? - Discussion event (2006)
Perspectives and Potentials of the Health Economy in the Ruhr Area (2005)
Science in the Ruhr Area - Science Policy for the Ruhr Area (2005)

Cooperations

The Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr e. V. supports research cooperation and projects between the member institutes.

Research platform "Science History of the Ruhr Area" : Within the research platform "Science History of the Ruhr Area", seven member institutes of the Science Forum Ruhr eV ( House of the History of the Ruhr Area Bochum , Institute for City History Gelsenkirchen, German Mining Museum , LVR Industrial Museum , LWL Industrial Museum , Fritz-Hüser- Institute and the Dortmund Social Research Center). Via the University Alliance Ruhr, the research platform also cooperates with the Ruhr University Bochum, the University of Duisburg-Essen and the TU Dortmund. The aim of the research platform is to take a look at the structures and actors of science and science policy against the background of current science-historical questions, to develop new perspectives and to investigate the question of a specific regional signature of science in the Ruhr area. In the 2015/2016 winter semester, a series of lectures is to take stock and measure the dimensions of a regional history of science.

"Health" research platform : The "Health" research platform of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV promotes the exchange of content between scientists from the Research Institute for Child Nutrition Dortmund (FKE) , the Grönemeyer Institute for Microtherapy Bochum (GIMT), the Institute for Work and Technology Gelsenkirchen (IAT) , the Leibniz Institute for Labor Research Dortmund (IfADo), the PROSOZ Herten software development and consulting company for municipalities, cities and districts mbH and the Rhine-Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Advice eV Duisburg (RISP). Out of this cooperation, the workshop of the science forum "Reality of life and health in structurally weak regions. Multiple problems - energetic answers emerged in February 2014".

UMSICHT science award : UMSICHT science award for scientists and media professionals. Awarded by the Friends of the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology.

BMBF project dynaklim: As part of the program “ Making climate change in regions fit for the future (KLIMZUG)” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the five-year project is developing important building blocks for adapting the Emscher-Lippe region to the effects of climate change.

Cooperation project: State, society, nation: The Jewish project of the integrative society in the 19th century and its significance for the present and the future. Under the title State, Nation, Society, the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research (DISS) and the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History examined the Jewish vision of an integrative society in the debates of the 19th century.

Cooperation partner pro Ruhr area

LUUPS - organizer of science slams

Members

The following 45 research institutions from various fields participate in the working group of the Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV (as of August 2015):

Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health BAuA
German Mining Museum Bochum
German Weather Service / Essen branch
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases e. V. (DZNE) Witten site
Duisburg Institute for Language and Social Research (DISS)
Research Institute for Child Nutrition (FKE) Dortmund
Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism
Research Institute for Legal Information Management GmbH
Research Institute Technology and Disability
Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Technology ISST
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT
Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World
Grönemeyer Institute for Microtherapy
Hygiene Institute of the Ruhr Area - Environmental Hygiene
Institute for Work and Qualification (IAQ)
Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Research, Ruhr University Bochum
Institute Work and Technology
Institute for Gerontology at the TU Dortmund
Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology V. (IUTA)
ILS Institute for State and Urban Development Research gGmbH
Institute for City History
ICT - Institute for Underground Infrastructure
Institute for Newspaper Research
InWIS - Institute for Housing, Real Estate Management, Urban and Regional Development / EBZ Business School
Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen
Käte Hamburger Kolleg
State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia
Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences ISAS eV
Leibniz Institute for Labor Research at TU Dortmund IfADo
LVR industrial museum
LWL-Industriemuseum: Westphalian State Museum for Industrial Culture
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology
NUREC Institute Duisburg eV
PROKIDS / PROSOZ Institute for Social Research
Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut for Economic Research Essen (RWI)
Rhine-Ruhr Institute for Social Research and Policy Advice (RISP)
Ruhr Research Institute for Innovation and Structural Policy (RUFIS)
Salomon-Ludwig-Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History
Social Research Center Dortmund
Ruhr Area Library Foundation
Foundation Center for Turkish Studies and Integration Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen
Administration and Business Academy Dortmund
Center for Fuel Cell Technology ZBT GmbH

Board

Chairwoman of the Scientific Forum Ruhr e. V. are Görge Deerberg from the Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT in Oberhausen and Dietrich Grönemeyer from the Grönemeyer Institute in Bochum.

literature

Regional cooperation: Together into the future, in: Wissenschaftsatlas Metropole Ruhr, 2010, pp. 11–13 ( online )

Wissenschaftsforum Ruhr eV: "Real life and health in structurally weak regions. Multiple problem areas - energetic answers." Event documentation with presentation slides, press review, conclusion and materials from February 20, 2014 (online)

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Knowledge region Ruhr / non-university institutes cooperate in FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Feuilleton from July 24, 2004

↑ Scholars' Republic of the Ruhr Area / The new Science Forum Ruhr wants to network research institutes in taz from May 19, 2005

↑ Cultural Studies Institute in Essen

↑ Member institutes of the Ruhr Science Forum ( online )

↑ Matthias Korfmann: Why the key to the future lies in the area. WAZ, July 15, 2011 ( online )

↑ http://www.wissenschaftsforum-ruhr.de/index.php/lösungen/projekte

↑ Press review for the international science fair "Wissenswelten" on July 15, 2011 (online)

↑ A life with climate change. In NRZ from December 12, 2010 - local edition Oberhausen

↑ Potthoff, Rolf: The faces of aging. Science Forum Ruhr starts 12-part information series. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 7, 2009 (online)

↑ Those who are poor are more likely to die - conference in GE in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) on February 11, 2014 (online)

↑ Health problems in poor cities - TV report on Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) local time Ruhr from February 20, 2014 (duration: 5:22)

^ "Science forum . The Ruhr area makes you healthy" as a goal "in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) from February 25, 2014 (online)

↑ Knipp, Kerstin: "Egypt, Divided Land", radio report on the occasion of the science forum event "Science in focus: (De-) stabilization of a region? The political view of the changes in the Arab world" on April 9, 2013 in the Folkwang Museum . Air date: April 10, 2013 on Dradio

↑ Report on: Jörg Feldmann: Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr 2011: Knowledge region with international appeal ( online )

↑ Onkelbach, Christopher: What the region's researchers can do. Exhibition of the Ruhr area research at the trade fair Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr in Dortmund. In: Westfälische Rundschau (complete edition) of June 29, 2011

↑ Giant Susanne: Quiz show on future topics. Prof. Dietrich Grönemeyer at the trade fair Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr in DASA. In: Ruhrnachrichten from July 8, 2011

↑ Korfmann, Matthias: Why the key to the future lies in the area. In: Der Westen Online from July 15, 2011

↑ Wissenswelten shows intelligent clothing for the fire brigade at: DPA from July 15, 2011

↑ http://www.wissenschaftsforum-ruhr.de/images/pdf/pressespiegel_online.pdf

^ "Worlds of Knowledge Metropolis Ruhr 2011: Knowledge region with international appeal"

↑ Kiesendahl, Rolf: Everything depends on immigration. Ring event "The aging society" started. Scientist advocates flexible retirement in WAZ of December 9, 2009

↑ How cities have to adapt to aging. Interview with Rainer Danielzyk at the start of the ring event "The aging society - challenges and opportunities". In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 7, 2009

↑ Hubert, Michael: Solutions for the aging society of the future. In the magazine for traffic safety, issue 2/2010, 56th vol.

↑ Radio report on the event "Age, Work in Learning" from March 8, 2010 in the Leibniz Institute for Labor Research at TU Dortmund in the series "The aging society - challenges and opportunities" Contribution to the WDR 4 program "In our age "of March 13, 2010 (from min. 28)

↑ Radio contribution to the event "Labor market and age-appropriate work design" on May 10, 2010 in the SFS Dortmund on WDR 4 radio, broadcast "In our age" on May 15, 2010 (from 29:30 min.)

↑ Radio report on the event "Aging as a Responsible Ethical Challenge" from July 12th on WDR radio, broadcast "In our Age" from July 17, 2010, WDR 4 (from 25:15 min.)

^ Wirtschaftsförderung Oberhausen GmbH: Science Ruhr on Tour - Focus on people. Knowledge and research day - also stops in Oberhausen from June 4, 2008 (online)

↑ Brochure for the event Wissenschaft Ruhr on Tour - Fokus Mensch (2008) (Online) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

↑ "Energy for people in the Ruhr area - Ruhr Science Forum invites you to a discussion with energy experts" on ExelenzNRW - Cluster North Rhine Westphalia (Online) ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Flyer for the event "Energy for people in the Ruhr area - Science Forum Ruhr invites you to discuss with energy experts" (online) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nua.nrw.de
^ Program Wissenschaftsmesse Ruhr (2006) (online)
^ Rüsen, Jörn: The humanities perspective in the Ruhr Science Forum (lecture), Science in the Ruhr Area - Science Policy for the Ruhr Area, event of the Ruhr Science Forum (online)
^ Event announcement of the House of the History of the Ruhr Area: Science Forum Ruhr. Science in the Ruhr Area - Science Policy for the Ruhr Area: Speakers: Science Minister Hannelore Kraft (Ministry for Science and Research North Rhine-Westphalia); State Secretary Wolf-Michael Catenhusen (Federal Ministry of Education and Research); State Secretary Josef Lange (Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture); Jörn Rüsen (President of the Institute for Cultural Studies, Essen); Moderation: Klaus Tenfelde (online)
↑ This resulted in an extensive documentation and collection of materials .
↑ Report: Dietrich Grönemeyer awards Umsicht-Preis in Oberhausen in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 25, 2015 (online)
↑ Overview of DYNAKLIM partners from the civil society sector (online) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Flender, Armin: Successful cooperation project safeguards cultural heritage. In: Information Service of Science of February 27, 2007 [1]
↑ List of cooperation partners for each Ruhr area (online)
↑ List of the cooperation partners of Luups (online)
^ "A Science Atlas for the Ruhr Metropolis" in Rheinische Post from July 29, 2010

[1] Knowledge region Ruhr / non-university institutes cooperate in FAZ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Feuilleton from July 24, 2004

[2] Scholars' Republic of the Ruhr Area / The new Science Forum Ruhr wants to network research institutes in taz from May 19, 2005

[3] Cultural Studies Institute in Essen

[4] Member institutes of the Ruhr Science Forum ( online )

[5] Matthias Korfmann: Why the key to the future lies in the area. WAZ, July 15, 2011 ( online )

[6] ttp://www.wissenschaftsforum-ruhr.de/index.php/lösungen/projekte

[7] Press review for the international science fair "Wissenswelten" on July 15, 2011 (online)

[8] A life with climate change. In NRZ from December 12, 2010 - local edition Oberhausen

[9] Potthoff, Rolf: The faces of aging. Science Forum Ruhr starts 12-part information series. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 7, 2009 (online)

[10] Those who are poor are more likely to die - conference in GE in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) on February 11, 2014 (online)

[11] Health problems in poor cities - TV report on Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) local time Ruhr from February 20, 2014 (duration: 5:22)

[12] "Science forum . The Ruhr area makes you healthy" as a goal "in Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) from February 25, 2014 (online)

[13] Knipp, Kerstin: "Egypt, Divided Land", radio report on the occasion of the science forum event "Science in focus: (De-) stabilization of a region? The political view of the changes in the Arab world" on April 9, 2013 in the Folkwang Museum . Air date: April 10, 2013 on Dradio

[14] Report on: Jörg Feldmann: Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr 2011: Knowledge region with international appeal ( online )

[15] Onkelbach, Christopher: What the region's researchers can do. Exhibition of the Ruhr area research at the trade fair Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr in Dortmund. In: Westfälische Rundschau (complete edition) of June 29, 2011

[16] Giant Susanne: Quiz show on future topics. Prof. Dietrich Grönemeyer at the trade fair Wissenswelten Metropole Ruhr in DASA. In: Ruhrnachrichten from July 8, 2011

[17] Korfmann, Matthias: Why the key to the future lies in the area. In: Der Westen Online from July 15, 2011

[18] Wissenswelten shows intelligent clothing for the fire brigade at: DPA from July 15, 2011

[19] ttp://www.wissenschaftsforum-ruhr.de/images/pdf/pressespiegel_online.pdf

[20] "Worlds of Knowledge Metropolis Ruhr 2011: Knowledge region with international appeal"

[21] Kiesendahl, Rolf: Everything depends on immigration. Ring event "The aging society" started. Scientist advocates flexible retirement in WAZ of December 9, 2009

[22] How cities have to adapt to aging. Interview with Rainer Danielzyk at the start of the ring event "The aging society - challenges and opportunities". In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 7, 2009

[23] Hubert, Michael: Solutions for the aging society of the future. In the magazine for traffic safety, issue 2/2010, 56th vol.

[24] Radio report on the event "Age, Work in Learning" from March 8, 2010 in the Leibniz Institute for Labor Research at TU Dortmund in the series "The aging society - challenges and opportunities" Contribution to the WDR 4 program "In our age "of March 13, 2010 (from min. 28)

[25] Radio contribution to the event "Labor market and age-appropriate work design" on May 10, 2010 in the SFS Dortmund on WDR 4 radio, broadcast "In our age" on May 15, 2010 (from 29:30 min.)

[26] Radio report on the event "Aging as a Responsible Ethical Challenge" from July 12th on WDR radio, broadcast "In our Age" from July 17, 2010, WDR 4 (from 25:15 min.)

[27] Wirtschaftsförderung Oberhausen GmbH: Science Ruhr on Tour - Focus on people. Knowledge and research day - also stops in Oberhausen from June 4, 2008 (online)

[28] Brochure for the event Wissenschaft Ruhr on Tour - Fokus Mensch (2008) (Online) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[29] "Energy for people in the Ruhr area - Ruhr Science Forum invites you to a discussion with energy experts" on ExelenzNRW - Cluster North Rhine Westphalia (Online) ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )