Helmholtz Researchs Fields

The Helmholtz Association's six research fields address the pressing issues facing society. Forschungszentrum Jülich contributes its expertise in the fields of energy, matter, information, and earth and environment.

programs in the Research Field Energy with Jülich participation

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Energy System Design

In this programme, researchers are aiming to design the integrated energy system of the future.

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Materials & Technologies for the Energy Transition

The programme works on options for developing innovative materials and scalable technologies for a sustainable, resource-conserving energy supply of the future

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Fusion

The Fusion programme aims to help harness nuclear fusion, a nearly inexhaustible source of energy.

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Nuclear Waste Management, Safety and Radiation Research

The NUSAFE programme plays a key role in assessing the safety of nuclear reactors as well as protecting the population and our environment against exposure to radiation.

Programs in the research field information with Jülich participation

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Engineering Digital Futures

The programme enhances established methods and combines them with innovative technologies such as artificial intelligence.

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Natural, Artificial and Cognitive Information Processing

In this programme, scientists analyse how nature uses an incredibly elegant approach to process complex information in the brain, using very little energy – in the brain, in biological cells, or in individual molecules and atoms

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Materials System Engineering

In this programme, materials are explored in order to be able to improve, design, and fabricate them.

Programs in the research field matter with Jülich participation

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Matter and the universe

What is matter made of, what are its basic building blocks? How did the universe come into being, and how will it end? The programme is looking for the answers to these questions.

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From matter to materials and life

The programme explores both the exact structure and the precise behaviour of future materials and promising biomolecules as the basis for future innovations.

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Matter and technologies

The research programme creates the basis for future scientific tools and focuses on the development of three key technologies: particle accelerators, detectors, and scientific computing.

Topics in the research field earth & environment with Jülich participation

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The atmosphere in global change

Almost all life on Earth depends on the Earth’s thin protective layer, the atmosphere. The institutes participating in this topic use high-resolution regional climate projections to produce predictions of the state of the atmosphere.

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Sustainable bioeconomy

With their research, the scientists contribute to a bioeconomy that delivers sustainably produced foodstuffs and renewable resources while also reducing the environmental footprint of the world’s population.

Last Modified: 31.05.2023