Helmholtz Association
The Helmholtz Association is Germany's largest scientific research community. A total of 30.000 employees work in 17 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centres. The Association's annual budget runs to more than € 3 Billion.
The Helmholtz Association has been commissioned with performing research which contributes substantially to answering the grand challenges of science, society and industry. Scientists at Helmholtz concentrate on researching the highly complex systems which determine human life and the environment. For example, ensuring that society remains mobile and has a reliable energy supply that future generations find an intact environment or that treatments are found for previously incurable diseases.