Federal Report on Research and Innovation 2024
Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF)
2024
DLR Projektträger
State spending on research and innovation is at a record high. Such are the key results of this year’s Federal Research and Innovation Report (BuFI) published by the Federal Government on a two-yearly basis. The report delivers a comprehensive overview of research and innovation activities at federal and state level as well as providing data and facts from the German research and development system. This enables, amongst other things, a review of how research and innovation is being used to tackle societal challenges and how Germany’s research and innovation system stands in international comparison.
Together with DLR Projektträger, Prognos forms the administrative offices for the report.
The report gives a comprehensive overview of the research and innovation policy at federal and state level, on a two-yearly basis. In the process, it takes a view on central statements drawn from the German Research and Innovation (EFI) audit, presented to the Federal Government in February 2024.
As part of its future research and innovation strategy the federal government has strategical reorganised its research and innovation funding in key future fields making it more mission-oriented thus enabling the major challenges of our time to be tackled in a targeted manner.
Together with DLR Projektträger, we form the administrative offices supporting the BMBF with the preparation of the BuFI report. In this context, we manage editorial tasks, work on draft texts, and graphic design. Furthermore, the offices have been instrumental in pushing forward the digitalisation of the report – available for the first time in digital form. The BuFI website undergoes continuous development and is constantly being improved to make it a more user-centric, interactive and networked information platform for research and innovation policy in Germany.
To the Federal Report for Research and Innovation 2024 (in German)
Further information on the BuFI 2024 (BMBF website, in German)
Previous reports (in German)
Project team: Nils-Eric Carlhoff, Annalena Fuchs, Maria Henker, Anna Hornik, Jakobus Jaspersen, Paul Möhlmann, Ralph Rautenberg
Latest update: 22.05.2024
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