[Interview] To Work Is to Learn Something New

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:08:04 +0900

Germany has a wide range of basic and applied science research institutes. Among them, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft comprises 74 institutes across Germany and, with some 28,000 employees, is Europe’s largest applied technology research and development organization.

It was first founded in Munich, Germany in 1949, named after the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer, who opened a new chapter in precision scientific instruments.

At its founding it started with 103 employees through the cooperation of the states of Bavaria, Hesse, and Württemberg, and in 1952 the German Federal Ministry of Economics designated the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft — together with the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) — as one of the three major non-university institutions for German research, making it one of the most important research institutes in German applied science.

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[Interview] To Work Is to Learn Something New