The Beutenberg Campus is a science and research site situated in southern

Jena Jena (; ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 in ...

, Germany. The physician

Hans Knöll Hans Knöll (January 7, 1913 – June 26, 1978) was a German physician and microbiologist. He was the director of the Central Institute of Microbiology and Experimental Therapy in Jena from 1953 to 1976, a member of the Academy of Sciences of ...

founded the first biomedical research institute at Beutenberg in 1950. From 1970, it was run as the Central Institute of Microbiology and Experimental Therapy (Zentralinstitut für Mikrobiologie und experimentelle Therapie - ZIMET) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. From 1982 institutes focussing on physics were also set up on the site. Following German reunification in 1990, a multidisciplinary science and research centre was created in response to a recommendation by the

German Council of Science and Humanities The ''German Science and Humanities Council'' (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) is an advisory body to the German Federal Government and the federal state governments. It makes recommendations on the development of science, research, and the universities, a ...

. The campus currently hosts nine research institutes. These include three

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-u ...

institutes, two

Max Planck Society The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

institutes, one

Fraunhofer Society The Fraunhofer Society () is a German publicly-owned research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science (as opposed to the Max Planck Society, which works primarily on Basic re ...

institute, one institute funded by the State of

Thuringia Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area. Er ...

, as well as

Friedrich Schiller University The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The university was established in 1558 and is cou ...

institutes. Two start-up centres, the Technology and Innovation Park Jena and the Bioinstrumentation centre, host more than 50 companies. In addition, Wacker Biotech GmbH has established biotechnology production facilities on campus. Beutenberg Campus offers an interdisciplinary knowledge and technology platform for work in innovative research. It is a competence centre for research in terms of the guidelines ''Life Science meets Physics''. The areas of

biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

natural product A natural product is a natural compound or substance produced by a living organism—that is, found in nature. In the broadest sense, natural products include any substance produced by life. Natural products can also be prepared by chemical s ...

chemistry, environmental research and medicine complement the physics of

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of optical instruments, instruments that use or Photodetector, detect it. Optics usually describes t ...

photonics Photonics is a branch of optics that involves the application of generation, detection, and manipulation of light in the form of photons through emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and sensing. E ...

and optical microsystems. Over 2300 people currently work on the Campus, more than 1000 are scientists. German and foreign students pursue their PhDs in association with one of the seven international research schools and in close cooperation with the

of Jena.

Beutenberg Campus Jena e.V.

In 1998 the Institutes on Campus organised themselves into the Campus Association. This non-profit Campus Association provides a platform for interdisciplinary cooperation, for representing campus activities to the outside world and for developing strategies for

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synergies between the members. For example, the Campus Association annually grants its most talented young scientists the Campus Award in Life Science and Physics. The Association organises scientific talks by internationally renowned scientists, presents campus research activities to the public in an accessible manner and represents the interests of the members in relation to politicians and civil servants.

Research institutes

* BioCentiv GmbH - BioInstrumentation Centre *

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (IOF), also referred to as the Fraunhofer IOF, is an institute of the Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research (FHG). The institute is based in Jena. Its activ ...

Jena **Institute of Applied Physics **Center for Innovation Competence Septomics **Centre for Molecular Biomedicine * Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) * Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) * Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute (HKI) * Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry *

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology The Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology is located on Beutenberg Campus in Jena, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the n ...

* Technology and Innovation Park Jena * University Clinic Jena,

- Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy * Wacker Biotech GmbH

Awards

Germany - Land of Ideas: ''Ausgewählter Ort 2006''

References

External links

Official website Beutenberg Campus
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