Leibniz Association

The Max Born Institute is a member of the Leibniz Association, which consists of about 90 scientifically, legally and economically independent german research institutes and service facilities. The scientific community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL) has its historical origin, as the full name is known, in the Blue List and the former academies of the GDR.

The common characteristic, in addition to the co-financing of all institutes by the Federal Government and the Länder, is the supraregional importance and, as a result, forward-looking work in the general interest of the state. The institutes are therefore active in thematically defined fields of research, which usually require long-term research and, because of their scope and / or content, are only of limited use for typical university research.