# Leibniz Association

The Leibniz Association (German: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft or Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) is a union of German non-university research institutes from various disciplines.

## Funding and Structure

As of 2020, 96 non-university research institutes and service institutions for science are part of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. The fields range from natural science, engineering, and ecology, to economics, other social sciences, spatial science, and humanities. The Leibniz Institutes work in an interdisciplinary fashion, and connect basic and applied science. They cooperate with universities, industry, and other partners in different parts of the world. Taken together, the Leibniz Institutes employ 20,000 people and have a budget of €1.9 billion. Leibniz Institutes are funded publicly to equal parts by the federal government and the Federal states (Bundesländer).
Every Leibniz institution is evaluated by the Leibniz Senate regularly, at a minimum of once every seven years. The evaluation is used as a benchmark of quality with respect to the work and research carried out by the institutes.

## History

The Leibniz-Gemeinschaft is named after the German philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and inventor Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716).
The Leibniz Association evolved from the "Blaue Liste" (blue list) in former Western Germany and research institutions of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin of the former DDR, whose research capability was deemed worth keeping after an evaluation by the German Wissenschaftsrat. The name 'Blaue Liste' for a German model for funding science has been retired, and traces back to the color of a dossier.
The Leibniz Association's headquarter is located in Berlin and there is an EU bureau in Brussels. Since 2014, the engineer Matthias Kleiner has been president of the Leibniz Association, with Christiane Neumann acting as secretary general.
In 2020, the Nature Index based on scientific publication rates, ranked the Leibniz Association as 3rd in Germany and 56th across the globe.

## Sections
### A - Humanities and Educational Research

| Name | Location | Initials | Website |
| Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen (Research Institute for Mining History and Mining Museum) | Bochum | DBM | www.bergbaumuseum.de |
| German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning | Bonn | DIE | www.die-bonn.de |
| German Institute for International Educational Research | Frankfurt am Main | DIPF | www.dipf.de/ |
| Deutsches Museum | München | DM | www.deutsches-museum.de |
| Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum - National Maritime Museum | Bremerhaven | DSM | www.dsm.museum |
| Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute | Braunschweig | GEI | www.gei.de |
| Germanisches Nationalmuseum | Nürnberg | GNM | www.gnm.de |
| Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe | Marburg | HI | www.herder-institut.de |
| Leibniz Institute for the German Language | Mannheim | IDS | www.ids-mannheim.de |
| Institute of Contemporary History | München-Berlin | IfZ | www.ifz-muenchen.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories | Bamberg | LIfBi | www.lifbi.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Kiel | Kiel | IPN | www.ipn.uni-kiel.de |
| Leibniz-Insitut für Europäische Geschichte | Mainz | IEG | www.ieg-mainz.de |
| Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe | Leipzig | GWZO | http://www.leibniz-gwzo.de |
| Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies | Regensburg | IOS | www.ios-regensburg.de |
| Knowledge Media Research Center (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien) | Tübingen | KMRC (IWM) | www.iwm-tuebingen.de |
| Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschungsinstitut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte | Mainz | RGZM | www.rgzm.de |
| Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics | Berlin | ZAS | www.zas.gwz-berlin.de |
| Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient | Berlin | ZMO | www.zmo.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information | Trier | ZPID | www.zpid.de |
| Centre for Contemporary History | Potsdam | ZZF | www.zzf-pdm.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture (Simon Dubnow Institute) | Leipzig | DI | http://www.dubnow.de/institut/aktuelles/ |

### B - Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research

| Name | Location | Initials | Website |
| Academy for Spatial Research and Planning – Leibniz Forum for Spatial Sciences | Hannover | ARL | www.arl-net.org |
| German Institute for Economic Research | Berlin | DIW | www.diw.de |
| GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Mannheim-Köln | GESIS | www.gesis.org |
| GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies | Hamburg | GIGA | www.giga-hamburg.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies | Halle | IAMO | www.iamo.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut | Hamburg | HBI | www.leibniz-hbi.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography | Leipzig | IfL | www.ifl-leipzig.com/ |
| Ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich | München | ifo | www.ifo.de |
| Kiel Institute for the World Economy | Kiel | IfW | www.ifw-kiel.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development | Dresden | IÖR | www.ioer.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space | Erkner | IRS | www.irs-net.de |
| Halle Institute for Economic Research | Halle | IWH | www.iwh-halle.de |
| Peace Research Institute Frankfurt | Frankfurt am Main | PRIF | www.hsfk.de |
| RWI — Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung | Essen | RWI | www.rwi-essen.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Financial Research | Frankfurt/Main | SAFE | safe-frankfurt.de |
| Social Science Research Center Berlin | Berlin | WZB | www.wzb.eu |
| German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics | Kiel & Hamburg | ZBW | www.zbw-kiel.de |
| Centre for European Economic Research | Mannheim | ZEW | www.zew.de |

### C - Life Sciences

| Name | Location | Initials | Website |
| Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine | Hamburg | BNITM | www.bni-hamburg.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology | Bremen | BIPS | www.bips.uni-bremen.de |
| German Diabetes Center – Leibniz-Center for Diabetes Research at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf | Düsseldorf | DDZ | www.ddz.uni-duesseldorf.de |
| German Research Centre for Food Chemistry | Garching | DFA | www.dfal.de |
| German Institute of Human Nutrition | Potsdam-Rehbrücke | DIfE | www.dife.de |
| German Rheumatism Research Center | Berlin | DRFZ | www.drfz.de |
| German Primate Center – Leibniz Institute for Primate Research | Göttingen | DPZ | www.dpz.eu |
| Leibniz-Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures | Braunschweig | DSMZ | www.dsmz.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology | Dummerstorf | FBN | www.fbn-dummerstorf.de |
| Leibniz Institute on Aging - Fritz Lipmann Institute | Jena | FLI | www.leibniz-fli.de |
| Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie | Berlin | FMP | www.fmp-berlin.de |
| Research Center Borstel – Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences | Borstel | FZB | www.fz-borstel.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology – Hans Knöll Institute | Jena | HKI | www.hki-jena.de |
| Heinrich Pette Institute – Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology | Hamburg | HPI | www.hpi-hamburg.de |
| Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors | Dortmund | IfADo | www.ifado.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry | Halle | IPB | www.ipb-halle.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research | Gatersleben | IPK | www.ipk-gatersleben.de |
| Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine | Düsseldorf | IUF | www.iuf.uni-duesseldorf.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research | Berlin | IZW | www.izw-berlin.de/ |
| Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology | Magdeburg | LIN | www.ifn-magdeburg.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Resilience Research | Mainz | LIR | lir-mainz.de |
| Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity at the Humboldt University Berlin | Berlin | MfN | www.mfn-berlin.de |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung | Frankfurt am Main | SGN | www.senckenberg.de |
| Museum Koenig Bonn & Museum of Nature Hamburg - Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change | Bonn & Hamburg | LIB | www.leibniz-lib.de |

### D - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering

| Name | Location | Initials | Website |
| Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam | Potsdam | AIP | www.aip.de |
| Ferdinand-Braun-Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Hoechstfrequenztechnik | Berlin | FBH | www.fbh-berlin.com |
| DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen | Aachen | DWI | www.dwi.rwth-aachen.de |
| FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure | Karlsruhe | FIZ KA | www.fiz-karlsruhe.de |
| Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics | Kühlungsborn | IAP | www.iap-kborn.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research | Dresden | IFW | www.ifw-dresden.de |
| Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics / Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik | Frankfurt (Oder) | IHP | www.ihp-microelectronics.com |
| Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology | Jena | IPHT | www.ipht-jena.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth | Berlin | IKZ | www.ikz-berlin.de |
| Leibniz Institute for New Materials | Saarbrücken | INM | www.inm-gmbh.de/ |
| Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology | Greifswald | INP | www.inp-greifswald.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification | Leipzig | IOM | www.iom-leipzig.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research | Dresden | IPF | www.ipfdd.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences | Dortmund | ISAS | www.isas.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Solar Physics | Freiburg | KIS | www.leibniz-kis.de/en/ |
| Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics | Wadern | LZI | www.dagstuhl.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Catalysis at the University of Rostock | Rostock | LIKAT | www.catalysis.de |
| Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy | Berlin | MBI | www.mbi-berlin.de |
| Oberwolfach Research Institute for Mathematics | Oberwolfach | MFO | www.mfo.de |
| Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics | Berlin | PDI | www.pdi-berlin.de |
| German National Library of Science and Technology, TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology | Hannover | TIB | www.tib.eu |
| Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics | Berlin | WIAS | www.wias-berlin.de |

### E - Environmental Sciences

| Name | Location | Initials | Website |
| Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy | Potsdam-Bornim | ATB | www.atb-potsdam.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research | Leipzig | TROPOS | www.tropos.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries | Berlin | IGB | www.igb-berlin.de |
| Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops | Großbeeren | IGZ | www.igzev.de |
| Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research | Warnemünde | IOW | www.io-warnemuende.de |
| Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Potsdam | PIK | www.pik-potsdam.de |
| Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research | Müncheberg | ZALF | www.zalf.de |
| Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research | Bremen | ZMT | www.zmt-bremen.de |