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SAXONY – THE SCIENCE STATE Title: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf: In the so-called target chamber the high-power laser beam meets the electron beam of the ELBE accelerator at the High-Power Radiation Sources Centre. The objective is to generate brilliant X-ray beams. | Photo: HZDR / Frank Bierstedt Saxony – the Science State Table of Contents Welcome Note __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 04 Outline Map ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 06 Historical notes _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 08 Saxony – the Science State ________________________________________________________________________________________ 10 University of Cooperative Education BA Sachsen ________________________________________________________________________ 18 Facts and figures ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19 Research promotion _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 21 Technology promotion ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 23 Dresden Science Region __________________________________________________________________________________________ 24 Technische Universität Dresden _____________________________________________________________________________________ 26 Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus _______________________________________________ 29 Dresden Academy of Fine Arts ______________________________________________________________________________________ 30 Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden ______________________________________________________________________ 32 Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden ________________________________________________________________________________ 33 Dresden University of Applied Sciences _______________________________________________________________________________ 34 Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences ___________________________________________________________________________ 36 Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres _____________________________________________________________________ 38 Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf _____________________________________________________________________________ 39 The German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) – Dresden site ____________________________________________________ 40 German Centre for Diabetes Research – Paul Langerhans Institute Dresden ____________________________________________________ 40 German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research – University CancerCentre Dresden ________________________________________ 41 The Max Planck Society ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 42 Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems _________________________________________________________________ 43 Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids ______________________________________________________________________ 43 Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics _______________________________________________________________ 44 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. ______________________________________________________ 45 Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS ____________________________________________________________ 46 Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP _________________________________________________________ 47 Fraunhofer Research Institution for Organics, Materials and Electronic Devices COMEDD _________________________________________ 47 Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM, Dresden Branch _________________________________ 48 Fraunhofer IVV, Branch Lab for Processing Machinery and Packaging Technology Dresden ________________________________________ 48 Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Design Automation Division EAS ________________________________________________ 49 Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS _______________________________________________________________ 49 Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI _______________________________________________________ 50 Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS ____________________________________________________________________ 50 Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration – Centre “All Silicon System Integration Dresden – ASSID” _____________________ 51 The Leibniz Association ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 52 Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development ____________________________________________________________ 53 Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden __________________________________________________________________________ 54 Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden ____________________________________________________________ 54 The Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden ____________________________________________________________________ 55 The Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz _____________________________________________________________________ 56 The Institute of Saxon History and Cultural Anthropology _________________________________________________________________ 57 The Sorbian Institute/Serbski institut, Bautzen/Budyšin ___________________________________________________________________ 57 Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism at the TU Dresden ___________________________________________________ 58 NaMLab (Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory) gGmbH ___________________________________________________________________ 58 VKTA – Radiation Protection, Analytics & Disposal Rossendorf Inc. __________________________________________________________ 59 Institutions in the Dresden Science Region ____________________________________________________________________________ 60 02 | Chemnitz Science Region _________________________________________________________________________________________ 62 Technische Universität Chemnitz ____________________________________________________________________________________ 64 Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau _________________________________________________________________________________ 67 Hochschule Mittweida – University of Applied Sciences ___________________________________________________________________ 69 Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Nano Systems ENAS __________________________________________________________________ 70 Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU ________________________________________________________ 70 Kurt-Schwabe-Institut für Mess- und Sensortechnik e. V. Meinsberg _________________________________________________________ 71 Institutions in the Chemnitz Science Region ___________________________________________________________________________ 72 Freiberg Science Region __________________________________________________________________________________________ 74 Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg __________________________________________________________________________ 76 Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology ____________________________________________________________________ 78 Fraunhofer Technology Centre for Semiconductor Materials THM ___________________________________________________________ 79 Institutions in the Freiberg Science Region ____________________________________________________________________________ 80 Leipzig Science Region ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 82 Leipzig University ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 84 Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Leipzig _____________________________________________________________________ 87 University of Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” Leipzig _______________________________________________________ 88 Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig _____________________________________________________________________________________ 89 Leipzig University of Applied Sciences ________________________________________________________________________________ 90 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research __________________________________________________________________________ 92 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology _____________________________________________________________________ 94 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences ____________________________________________________________________ 95 Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences ______________________________________________________________ 95 Fraunhofer-Zentrum für Mittel- und Osteuropa MOEZ ____________________________________________________________________ 97 Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI _________________________________________________________________ 97 Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research ____________________________________________________________________________ 98 Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification ______________________________________________________________________________
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