Johannes Rau Research Foundation
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The JRF is a research community of 16 independent, non-university and non-profit research institutes in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The common goal is to conduct sustainable and forward-thinking research for society, economy and politics. The institutes work together across disciplines, conduct joint public relations work, promote young researchers and are evaluated by external experts. In addition to the scientific members, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia is a founding member, represented by the Ministry of Culture and Science.
The institutes of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation are institutionally funded by the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The main topics
The scientific institutes of the Johannes Rau Research Foundation accompany and research the transformation from an industrial to a knowledge society in four key areas:
Cities & Infrastructure
How can we design liveable cities and adequate infrastructures in the face of demographic change and changing needs?
Industry & environment
How can we make production, logistics and mobility sustainable?
Society & digitalization
What opportunities and challenges does the digitalization of all areas of our lives entail and how can we shape these for the benefit of individuals and society?
Globalization & integration
How can we shape the effects of globalization in a humane way at local and regional level in different parts of the world?
What does the JRF do? The Research Foundation in the explanatory video (in German)
The member institutes
- AMO − Gesellschaft für Angewandte Micro- und Optoelektronik mbH (Aachen)
- BICC − Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies (Bonn)
- DST − Entwicklungszentrum für Schiffstechnik und Transportsysteme
- EWI – Energiewirtschaftliches Institut an der Universität zu Köln
- FIR − Forschungsinstitut für Rationalisierung (Aachen)
- FIW − Forschungsinstitut für Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft (Aachen)
- IDOS − German Institute of Development and Sustainability (Bonn)
- IKT − Institut für unterirdische Infrastruktur (Gelsenkirchen)
- ILS − Institut für Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung (Dortmund)
- iuta − Institut für Umwelt & Energie, Technik & Analytik
- IWW − Rheinisch-Westfälische Institut für Wasserforschung
- RIF − Institut für Forschung und Transfer (Dortmund)
- Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte (Essen)
- Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie (Wuppertal)
- ZBT − Zentrum für BrennstoffzellenTechnik (Duisburg)
- ZfTI − Stiftung Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (Essen)
