Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)

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The UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for environmental Research) was established in 1991 as the first and only research centre in the Helmholtz Association to be exclusively devoted to environmental research. It currently employs around 780 staff in total. The UFZ is 90 percent funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, with the regional governments of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt sharing the remaining 10 percent equally.

Field of main application:
- Water and Soil Sciences
- Terrestrial Ecology
- Environmental Systems Computation and Monitoring
- Environmental Technology
- Environmental Health
- Health Research
- Social Sciences

Research activities:
- Water Resources Management
- Land Use Management, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainable Bioproduction and Bioenergy
- Chemicals in the Environment
- Chemicals, Health and Immunology
Cross Cutting Themes:
- Adaptation to Climate Change
- Economics, Environmental Sociology, Politics and Law
- Modelling, Monitoring and Exploration of Terrestrial Ecosystems:
Methods and Technologies



Competences and Primary Activities:

As an international competence centre for the environmental sciences, the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ investigates the complex
interactions between mankind and nature under the influence of global
change. In close cooperation with decision-makers and stakeholders, scientists
at the UFZ develop system solutions to improve the management of complex
environmental systems and to tackle environmental issues.


Key Research Activities:

• Land use, biodiversity and ecosystem services / renewable energies
• Sustainable plant production
• Sustainable water resources management
• Chemicals in the environment / environmental health
• Terrestrial systems: from observation to prediction

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