Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME60 years Fraunhofer at the location Schmallenberg
Worldwide active and regionally enrooted - a story of success was celebrated. Shortly before completion of the new center of the instute, Fraunhofer IME celebrated the 60-year anniversary of the Fraunhofer location Schmallenberg-Grafschaft with 160 invited guests from science, industry and politics on October 29, 2019. Beside a view on the relevance of the scientific work in Schmallenberg in the past and presence, an outlook of themes for the future was given. The realisation is enabled by investions of about 30 Mio € by the Federal Republic Germany (D), the Federal State North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) and own resources. The emerging new laboratory building could be viewed by the guests.
Greetings from Executive Institute Manager Fraunhofer IME, Professor Gerd Geisslinger
Greetings from Provisional Institute Manager Fraunhofer IME and Manager Division Applied Ecology and Bioresources, Professor Christoph Schäfers
Greetings from Professor Ralf Boris Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Executive Vice President Technology Marketing and Business Models.
Greetings from Dr. Peter Liese, MEP, Environmental spokesperson of the European People’s Party (EPP) in the European Parliament and head of CDU-Europe group
Presentation of Fraunhofer IME relevance by Professor Adolf Eisenträger, head of the division Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and Substance Analysis at the German Environment Agency (UBA)
Greetings from Klaus Kaiser, parliamentary state secretary of the Ministry for Culture and Science of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
Architect Professor Johannes Kister informs about the new lab building
Celebration at the new Institute Center in Schmallenberg
160 invited guests from Science, Industry and Politics celebrated the 60-year anniversary of the Fraunhofer location Schmallenberg-Grafschaft
Viewing of the new lab building