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Helmholtz Member in Two Clusters of Excellence
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are amongst the winners of the third round in the Cluster of Excellence competition organised by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Helmholtz centres thus are involved in two of a total of five Clusters of Excellence. The Cluster of Excellence competition is part of the Federal Ministry's high-tech strategy. The ministry funds the five winners of the third and final round of the competition with a total of up to 200 million Euro over five years. The selected Clusters of Excellence are attributed a high degree of regional innovation potential, the strategic further development of which now is supported by the Federal Ministry and industry partners. The winners will be awarded in Berlin on 23 February 2012.
The UFZ is one of the partners within the "BioEconomy Cluster" pursuing the objective of utilising biomass for producing materials, chemicals and sources of energy. The Cluster of Excellence combines the industry branches relevant for bioeconomics, such as the chemical industry, the paper and pulp industry, agriculture and forestry, the energy industry as well as the mechanical and plant engineering industries in Central Germany.
The KIT is a member of the Cluster of Excellence "Electromobility South-West". Partners from vehicle, energy and supply engineering, information and communication technologies and services as well as from production technology work together in this network to create new solutions in the field of electromobility.
