Research Co-operations
With Non-university Research Facilities

The university will expand its co-operations with national and international leading non-university facilities. This expansion will be based on the already existing research co-operations with various facilities, including those of the Max Planck Society, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Research Association.

The most significant developments in co-operations with non-university research facilities are as follows:

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

With the Max Planck Society there is a particularly intensive co-operation in the field of physics. The university operates, together with the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), a centre for gravitational physics. This is home to the GEO600 gravitational wave detector as well as the International Max Planck Research School for Gravitational Wave Astronomy which was established in 2006 at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

• Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)

L3S Research Centre

The highlighted example of the co-operation with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Research Association is the planned transfer of the L3S Research Centre into an independent institute under the umbrella of the association.

• L3S Research Centre

Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

There is a particularly close partnership with the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in the co-operation between the Centre of Biomolecular Drug Research and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig. This research association, which is also supported by the work of a professor of the Leibniz Universität Hannover as director in a secondary appointment at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, will be strengthened further with the creation of a common organisational structure.

• Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

Wind power

The Leibniz Universität Hannover also wants to give impetus to the founding of non-university research facilities in Hannover. In the field of wind power, for example, there are already various activities with the declared goal of developing the existing research strengths and co-operations in such a way so that a non-university research facility with a high degree of application orientation can be established in Hannover.

• Wind Energy Research at Leibniz Universität Hannover
• Fraunhofer IWES
• ForWind

University institutions

Furthermore, the co-operations with the university’s affiliated institutions are also of considerable significance as they complement the competencies of the university with application orientated research in important areas. The following are institutes of the Leibniz Universität Hannover:

• Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (Hannover Laser Centre)
• Institut für Solarenergieforschung GmbH (Solar Energy Research)
• IPH - Institut für Integrierte Produktion Hannover gemeinnützige GmbH (Integrated Production)
• Institut für Entwicklungsplanung und Strukturforschung GmbH (Development Planning and Structural Research)
• Heinz-Piest Institut für Handwerkstechnik (Craft Engineering)