Voluntarily engaged
FZI Friends' Association
Business-related institution such as the FZI maintain particularly intensive contacts with companies in the cooperating industries as part of their industrial projects. In order to improve the integration of the FZI beyond these project-related contacts into the industries nationwide and regionally into the general economic activities, the FZI Friends’ Association (“Förderverein Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI) e. V.”) was established in 1984 by 26 founding members. Today, the FZI Friends’ Association has about 80 members.
The FZI Friends’ Association is a network of companies and other organizations with legal capacity that want to use modern information technologies. To this end, they maintain contact with each other and with the FZI and support the work of the research institution. A membership also enhances the opportunity to benefit from FZI‘s competence in research by initiating, planning and realizing new projects.
You can download the statutes and contribution rules of the FZI Friends’ Association as PDF (german only).
Tasks
FZI Friends' Association...
- advises the research areas on the identification of long-term questions of interest to practical applications
- provides targeted support for particularly promising scientific projects
- promotes the transfer of research results into industrial practice
- supports the establishment of new, topical research areas
- elects the members listed in the FZI statutes to the FZI Board of Trustees
The FZI maintains contact with its members in a special way in working groups. The events of the sponsoring association, which take place several times a year, offer members the opportunity to inform themselves about current research topics and to cultivate industry-relevant networks. Training courses and seminars are available on a preferential basis at particularly favorable rates. Guest stays of employees of member companies at the FZI and of FZI employees in member companies are encouraged.
Comittee
You would like to join the FZI Friends' Association?
Then please send the completed application form to:
Förderverein FZI e.V.
c/o FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik
z. Hd. Herrn Sebastian Felzmann
Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14
76131 Karlsruhe, Germany