1:Energy
2:Earth and Environment
3:Health
4:Aeronautics, Space and Transport
5:Key Technologies
6:Structure of Matter
7:The Latest Insights
8:The Helmholtz Association’s portfolio process
9:Helmholtz Alliances
10:Helmholtz Institutes
11:Helmholtz Virtual Institutes
12:EU Projects
13:International Projects
14:Cooperating with Universities
15:Knowledge and technology transfer
- 15.1:Contact partners
  - 15.1.1:The TTGR working group and coordination at the head office
  - 15.1.2:External partners
- 15.2:Success stories
- 15.3:Funding
- 15.4:Standardization
16:Open Access
17:Data protection

INFORMATION FOR

The TTGR working group and coordination at the head office

Those managing the “transfer points” at the Helmholtz Centres meet within the Technology Transfer and Commercial Legal Protection (TTGR) working group. There is also a central coordinator for all the transfer points at the Helmholtz Association’s head office.

For over 25 years, the transfer points in the Helmholtz Centres have collaborated within a special working group. The TTGR group brings together around 25 technology transfer and patent experts from all 17 Helmholtz Centres The TTGR group meets twice a year and regularly invites external guests, such as representatives of transfer institutions of other non-university research associations, to these sessions.

Knowledge and technology transfer is decentralised within the Helmholtz Association and carried out independently by each Helmholtz Centre according to its own particular environment and research themes. Despite this, it is extremely useful for the individual transfer points to be able to discuss any new legal regulations, appropriate models for collaboration and contracts, commercial strategies and funding programmes. The TTGR working group is currently chaired by Dr Jens Fahrenberg, head of the Innovation Department at KIT, and the deputy chairman is Dr Eberhard Sauter from AWI.