Science, technology and innovation

Germany Inspires Innovation

Germany is the number one location for research in Europe. Germany’s unique scientific tradition and great variety of research offer ideal conditions — not only for people with ideas, but also for companies that want to translate these ideas into new products.

Study and Research on Sustainability

In order to ensure the sustainable use of our home planet's resources, we need to know more about the effects of industrial societies and the world-wide increase in consumption on the system earth.

Venezuelan PhD student Jenny La Verde in the lab of the Robert Koch Institute of Wernigeröde.

Research institutes

Cutting-edge research is being done at hundreds of scientific institutes that are grouped together in organisations such as the Helmholtz Association, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and the Leibniz Association. Precisely these research institutes offer leading research minds optimal working conditions that are as good as unparalleled over the world.

Inventions and innovations

The ideas country: from the bicycle to the MP3 format - German inventors and inventions shape today´s world.

German Nobel Prize winners

Of the total 80 German Nobel Prize winners to date, 68 won the prize for services to the natural sciences or medicine. The very first Nobel Prize for went in 1901 to Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen – for Physics.

Research in Germany Newsletter

Visit the Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s portal “Research in Germany” and discover for yourself what makes Germany such a good location for science and research. If you subscribe to the newsletter you will, every two months, receive regular information on current research projects and findings, as well as on how to cooperate with German research and scientific centres and universities.