Presentation from ICWES 15 Conference - July 2011, Australia

1. Career support in science and knowledge management – mentoring at non-university research organizations in Germany Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Katharina Sauter Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Dr. Birgit Gaiser Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Anke Hübenthal

2. The German Research Landscape Applied Research Fundamental Research predominently institutional predominantly private Characteristics of Research Funding Federal/ German Länder Institutes 0,9 HGF* 2,6 3 WGL* 1,3 Univer-sities 9,2 Industry (internal and external expenditures) 55,4 1 AiF ~ 0,25 Fraunhofer* 1,6 3 MPG* 1,66 2 *overall budget in billion euros HGF Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft WGL Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz AiF Arbeitsgemeinschaft industrieller Forschungsvereinigungen MPG Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Source: Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Destatis 1 estimation Wissenschaftsstatistik 2008, Stifterverband 2 2008 3 2009

4. CUTTING-EDGE SCIENCE IN NETWORKS The Six Research Fields of the Helmholtz Association PAGE Energy Earth & Environment Health Key Technologies Structure of Matter Aeronautics, Space and Transport 30,900 Staff 10,800 scientists & engineers Budget 2011: 5,320 PhD students 3,3 billion Euro 1,680 vocational trainees

7. Percentage of Women in the Scientific Staff at Fraunhofer 2001 - 2010

8. Max Planck Society at a glance Helmholtz at a glance Female scientific Staff 22, 5 % Female managers 17 % Group Women Men Total % of women Directors and scientific members 22 251 273 8,1 MP Research Group Leaders 30 74 104 28,8 Senior Research Scientists (W2) 62 142 204 30,4 Academic staff 1.299 3.739 4.571 28,4

11. Minerva-FemmeNet Network for female scientific researchers at Max Planck Society

13. Mentoring at Helmholtz - Figures Each year the Helmholtz Association‘s Head Office supervises approximately 100 mentoring tandems .

17. Famous Tandems