17 16 Director‘s Report Funding Funding Director‘s Report FUNDING The Abbe Center of Photonics (ACP) acquires multiple sources of funding to establish and maintain its research, education and infrastructure program. The larger share of financial aid is for indirect support, attracted by ACP’s principal scientists through many different competitive third-party funding schemes. This support comes mainly from substantial large-scale and collaborative research projects. To obtain maximum benefit from the synergetic effects which ACP provides, its members focus their common acquisition efforts on strategic funding, i.e. on largescale, interdisciplinary and sustainable collaborative research projects. The following list, sorted by funding sources, is a selection of currently active strategic research projects which have been acquired by ACP‘s principal scientists through competitive funding programs: Annual budgets of third-party funding in optics and photonics research and educational projects led by ACP principal scientists from years 2010 to 2022, sorted by funding sources. The numbers for 2023 were not yet available at the editorial deadline of this booklet. In addition to individual grants and fellowships, ACP scientists are also proud to attract an exceptionally high amount of third-party funding for projects aiming to support professional careers within the educational program. Substantial financial support for infrastructure and administration to benefit the Abbe School of Photonics is provided by federal programs (Max Planck School of Photonics), the German Academic Exchange Service (Graduate School Scholarship Programs) and from the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung (Jena Alliance Life in Focus). In addition, ACP gratefully receives financial support for selected doctoral research projects from different types of scholarships from the European Union and the European Research Council (ERC), the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Science, and Digital Society (TMWWDG), the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung, as well as from our more than 20 industrial partners, among them ASML, LEICA, JENOPTIK, OSRAM, PHILIPS, TRUMPF, and ZEISS. The following chart lists the annual budgets which ACP scientists have spent on their optics and photonics projects from 2010 to 2022. Since ACP‘s foundation, an already considerably high level of funding has been continuously increased. Currently, the annual competitive third-party budget has achieved a considerably high and constant level of about EUR 30 million raised by ACP principal scientists. Another solid tendency lies in the fact of a growing amount of funding was attracted from the German Research Foundation (DFG). In sum, and over the last 10 years, ACP’s annual budgets have constituted roughly 25 to 35% of the overall sum of third-party funding granted to all scientists of the entire Friedrich Schiller University Jena. These numbers are proof of the vital and sustainable impact of optics, photonics and quantum technology research and education performed by ACP – a reflection of the University’s impressive research profile as well as on the strong economic and infrastructural backbone of Jena. THE GERMAN RESEARCH FOUNDATION • Excellence Cluster EXC 2051 Balance of the Microverse - strong support to our microbiology partners • Collaborative Research Center SFB 1375 NOA - Nonlinear Optics down to Atomic scales • Collaborative Research Center SFB 1278 Polytarget • Collaborative Research Center SFB TRR 234 Catalight together with the University of Ulm • International Research Training Group IRTG 2675 METAACTIVE together with the Australian National University THE EUROPEAN UNION • Attosecond Chemistry - COST Action (CA18222) • BioQantSense - Twinning for Excellence with the Serbian National Institute of Physics Belgrade (EU Twinning 101079355) • EMIMEP - European Master for Industry in Microwave Electronics and Photonics (MSCA-EMJMD) • FastGhost - Fast quantum ghost microscopy in the mid-IR (FET-OPEN 899580) • LISA - Laser Ionization and Spectroscopy of Actinide elements (MSCA-ITN 861198) • METAFAST - Metasurfaces for Ultrafast Light Structuring (FET-OPEN 899673) • SURQUID - Super-resolving Quantum Imaging and Detection (FET-OPEN 899824) STATE AND FEDERAL FUNDING • InfectoGnostics - Federal Research Campus, funded in public-private partnership by the BMBF, the Free State of Thuringia, and more than 20 companies • InQuoSens - Thuringian Innovation Center for Quantum Optics and Sensor Technology in collaboration with the Technical University Ilmenau, funded by the Free State of Thuringia • Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research, selected and funded by the National Research Infrastructure Roadmap • Jena Alliance Life in Focus -a project of the Carl-ZeissStiftung, a multidisciplinary education initiative • Max Planck School of Photonics - national education excellence initiative, funded by the BMBF • QOMPLEX - joint project on Complexity Scaling of Quantum Photonic Systems, funded by the BMBF • QP.TECH.EDU and Quantum Mini Labs, both joint programmes within the Quantum Futur Education Initiative funded by the BMBF • UKPinho - SME-driven alliance on ultrashort laser pulse technology research • Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung Center for Quantum Photonics, together with the Universities of Stuttgart and Ulm
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