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Energy Transformation Requires Research
Photo: André Künzelmann, UFZ
The fast transformation of our energy supply requires new solutions for grids and intermediate storage facilities as well as an increase in efficiency in all technologies. Energy research within the Helmholtz Association addresses these tasks and invests an additional 135 million Euro to close the gaps in our research, to pool and further develop our competences and to promote the energy transformation to our best ability.
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Land Is a Limited Resource
More and more people want to use the resource of land to an increasingly intensive degree. This leads not only to conflict, but changes also the face of our planet in many ways: Today, more than 50 per cent of the population already live in urban regions, agriculture is increasingly industrialised and only a small part of the earth's surface...more
Tonnes of Equipment for Nanogramme Measuring
On 9 May 2012, a secondary ion mass spectrometer (SIMS) weighing several tonnes was hauled from the GFZ Potsdam to the HZDR Dresden-Rossendorf. These two affiliated Helmholtz institutions thus embark on a course of intensified cooperation, which in future is to include also other Helmholtz research centres and universities. As early as in 2013,...more
Zeppelin Flight for Climate Research
ince May 2012, a team of researchers from Jülich, Switzerland, Estonia and the USA conducts measuring flights aboard the research zeppelin PEGASOS. The first mission from Friedrichshafen to Rotterdam now was successfully completed; the second mission is headed for Italy, where measurements above the Po Valley and the Adriatic Sea are scheduled....more
Technology Transfer 2012/06
Six New Spin-off Projects Chosen for Helmholtz Enterprise Funding
During the 15th selection meeting of the spin-off funding instrument Helmholtz Enterprise in May 2012, the selection committee recommended six new technology-based spin-off projects to receive funding from the Initiative and Networking Fund. The projects thus receive up to 100,000...more
