Bingen 25 km (16 miles) Selected Academic Institutions Research Environment Wiesbaden 8 km Goethe University Frankfurt Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Cognitive Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences Brain Research of the Max Planck Society Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Ingelheim Max Planck Institute for Biophysics 12 km Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Selected Research Companies Boehringer Ingelheim AEterna Zentaris Inc BayerCrop Science SCHOTT AG Roman-Germanic Museum Merz JGU Campus (Institute of the Leibniz Society) Sanofi-Aventis Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Museum of Natural History Mainz Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz Institute of European History Mainz Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Institute of the Leibniz Society) Max Planck Graduate Center with the JGU Frankfurt Helmholtz Institute Mainz 35 km University School of Music Frankfurt Airport 23 km Selected Research Companies Catholic University of Applied Sciences Mainz GENterprise Genomics GmbH University School of Art Academic Institutions Selected Research Companies Academic Institutions Mainz University of Applied Sciences University Medical School Ganymed Pharmaceuticals AG Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Institute of Translational Oncology (TRON) Darmstadt Technical University Selected Research Companies Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz Merck KGaA IBM Mainz 0 1 2 km IMM Institute of Microtechnology Mainz Darmstadt 30 km 0 1 mile Facts about Mainz Facts about Frankfurt Facts about Darmstadt Facts about Wiesbaden Facts about Ingelheim Population: 200,000 Population: 680,000 Population: 145,000 Population: 280,000 Population: 25,000 Employees in the R&D sector: 20,000 Employees in the R&D sector: 13,000 Employees in the R&D Employees in the Employees in the Students: 41,000 (over 100 research institutes) sector: 30,000 R&D sector: 200 R&D sector: 7,000 Infrastructure: Congress Centre Mainz Students: 40,000 Students: 36,000 Students: 6,000 (3,500 events / year) Infrastructure: Frankfurt International Airport (the largest in continental Europe).