Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

The Museum Koenig Bonn (Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change) has extended its research in the area of Zoology & Systematics by important tasks around the global biodiversity crisis. Through this approach, the Museum Koenig staff provides an important contribution towards the protection of the biological resources on Earth, because our results are made available to the scientific community and are discussed worldwide. These scientific results contribute to the properly competent economical and political decisions aimed at safeguarding the basis of human life. With this spectrum of tasks, the Museum Koenig does a highly topical and future-oriented research. At the same time it holds an important position within the frame of many and diverse co-operations on international efforts to preserve the biodiversity on Earth.
 
The Museum Koenig is a member of the Leibniz community (WGL). The Leibniz Association is a network of 97 scientifically, legally and economically independent research institutes and scientific service facilities. Leibniz Institutes perform strategic- and thematically-oriented research and offer scientific service of national significance while striving to find scientific solutions for major social challenges.
 
Leibniz Institutes employ 19.100 employees, of which 9.900 are academics, including 2.800 junior scientists. Leibniz Institutes maintain 2.200 major national and 1.300 international scientific co-operations. Each year, around 2.200 foreign scientists join forces with the Leibniz Institutes as temporary workers. One indication of their high competitiveness and excellence is the 425 million Euros allocated to the Leibniz Institutes from third-party funds.
The Institutes have been awarded 46.8 million Euros from the European Union, 73 million Euros from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG) and 40.03 million Euros from industry co-operations. The total budget of all Leibniz Institutes amounts to more than 1.9 billion Euros.
 
Leibniz Institutes contribute to clusters of excellence in fields such as Mathematics, Optic Technologies, Materials Research, Medicine, Climate and Environmental Research, Bio- and Nanotechnology as well as humanities, economics and social sciences. They foster close co-operations with universities, industry, and other research institutes, both in Germany and abroad. The Leibniz Association has developed a comprehensive system of quality management. At regular intervals, independent experts assess every institute as part of their unique peer review evaluation process.