Programme-oriented funding

Programme-oriented research at the GeoResearchCentre

As a member of the Helmholtz Association, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is working on urgent social, scientific and economic questions. In 2003 and 2008 the GFZ joined its research projects to the Helmholtz Programme Based Research Scheme and its programmes of strategic research


Main areas of research

The GFZ works in the Areas of "Earth and Environment (http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/Forschung/Programmorientierte_Foerderung/FB+Erde+und+Umwelt;jsessionid=C88789E50DFD1AC6CE2C9B186077334A)" and "Energy (http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/portal/gfz/Forschung/Programmorientierte_Foerderung/FB+Energie+Erneuerbare+Energien;jsessionid=C88789E50DFD1AC6CE2C9B186077334A)". 

 
The overarching research aim of the GeoResearchCentre is one of developing strategies and demonstrating practical options, e.g. to preserve natural resources and to exploit them in an environmentally friendly way, to guard against natural catastrophes, to assess changes in the climate and the environment and man’s impact on these, and to research and utilise our world below ground, all based on a comprehensive understanding of systems and processes.