Research and Technology Transfer

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is a center of academic competence and outstanding top-level research. Particularly successful areas are materials research, the geosciences, nuclear and particle physics, and nuclear chemistry in the natural sciences, immunology and oncology in medicine, and intercultural studies and media science in the field of the humanities and social sciences.

In terms of generating focus areas of research, Mainz University is increasingly focusing cooperations with non-university partners such as the two Max Planck Institutes located on campus, the Roman-Germanic Central Museum, and the Institute of European History.

Our University can be judged by the very positive trend in third-party funding which has been increasing over the las years. In 2007, our scientists and projects gained a total of €67 mio. The German Research Foundation (DFG) supported Mainz Universtity with more than €24 mio. and thus was our main third-party funding source.

In many fields, the basic research of our departments and faculties aims at and connects to application-oriented science and research, i.e. the transfer of technology. This kind of technology transfer wants to make possible the introduction of explored and investigated knowledge into products and services and thus establish contacts and cooperations between scientific research and the economy.