National co-operation
The BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment co-operates with the federal research institutes as well as with other institutes in the portfolio of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMELshort forGerman Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture), with higher federal authorities of other ministries and with many university institutes as well as non-university research and scientific institutes active in closely related fields.
The aim is to provide a platform for the exchange of information and close co-operation on issues of common interest.
Federal research institutes of the BMELshort forGerman Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- External Link:Friedrich-Loeffler-Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit (FLI), Greifswald
- External Link:Johann-Heinrich-von-Thünen-Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei (TI), Braunschweig
- External Link:Julius Kühn-Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI), Quedlinburg
- External Link:Max-Rubner-Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ernährung und Lebensmittel (MRI), Karlsruhe
Other institutes of the BMELshort forGerman Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
- External Link:Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL), Braunschweig
- External Link:Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), Bonn
- External Link:Bundeszentrum für Ernährung (BZfE), Bonn
- External Link:Bundesinformationszentrum Landwirtschaft (BZL), Bonn
- Senate of the Federal Research Institutes: the Senate was set up to ensure interdisciplinary coordination of the work of the departmental research institutes and the institutes of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Leibniz Science Association).
Departmental research institutes of the federal government
- External Link:Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin (BauA), Dortmund
- External Link:Robert Koch-Institut (RKI), Berlin
- External Link:Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Dessau
- External Link:Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Salzgitter
- External Link:Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Berlin
- External Link:Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Ressortforschungseinrichtungen
- Working Group of the German Federal Departmental Research Establishments: more than 30 federal institutes conducting research activities have joined forces in this working group. The outcomes of their research and development activities serve as a source of advice for political decision-makers, and these institutes play a role in maintaining and developing the technical infrastructure in the Federal Republic of Germany. The BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment has been a member of the working group since it was founded.
Regional investigation institutes of the laender
- LUFA Nordwest (Agricultural Investigation and Research Institute Northwest): co-operation within the framework of the NRL for animal protein in feed
- Verband deutscher landwirtschaftlicher Untersuchungs- und Forschungsanstalten e.V. - VDLUFA (Association of German Agricultural Investigation and Research Institutes): co-operation in the field of assessment of potential health risks due to feed
University institutes
- External Link:Freie Universität (FU), Berlin
- External Link:Technische Universität (TU), Berlin
- External Link:Humboldt Universität (HU), Berlin
- External Link:Tierärztliche Hochschule (TiHo), Hannover
- External Link:Universität Leipzig
- External Link:Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
- External Link:Universität zu Köln
- External Link:Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena
- External Link:Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), München
- External Link:Universität Hamburg
- External Link:Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
- External Link:Justus-Liebig-Universität (JLU), Gießen
- External Link:Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen
- External Link:Hochschule Geisenheim
- External Link:Helmut-Schmidt-Universität (HSU), Hamburg
- External Link:Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), Berlin
- External Link:Charité, Berlin
- External Link:Berlin School of Public Health (BSPH)
- Charité: the External Link:Master of Science toxicology programme is a course of studies of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin organised in co-operation with the University of Potsdam and other institutions in the region. In this area, the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment makes an important contribution to the process of scientific assessment in the field of toxicology by training and acquiring toxicologists.
- Berlin School of Public Health (BSPH): Berlin School of Public Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (BSPH) was established at Charité in January 2007 with the participation of the Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin), the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) and Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin). The aim of the BSPH is to offer a comprehensive public health teaching and research programme with international scope in Berlin. Through its involvement in the BSPH, the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment plays an important role in the training of future scientists.
- The joint creation of a full professorship by the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment together with Charité and the appointment of the Head of Department 9 "Experimental Toxicology and ZEBET" is designed to raise the profile of the 3R concept both at university level and in the field of fundamental research.
Other partnerships and memberships
- External Link:Initiative Transparente Tierversuche
- External Link:Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN), Berlin
- External Link:Kooperation mit der Stiftung Warentest, Berlin
- External Link:Mitgliedschaft in der Deutschen Agrarforschungsallianz (DAFA), Braunschweig
- External Link:Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e. V. (GDCh), Frankfurt
- External Link:Lebensmittelchemische Gesellschaft (LChG), Frankfurt
- External Link:Kooperative Mitgliedschaft im Berliner Arbeitskreis Information (bak)
- External Link:Kooperation mit der Fraunhofer-Allianz Food Chain Management (FCM), Schmallenberg
- External Link:Mitgliedschaft im Consortium InfectControl 2020, Jena
- External Link:Mitgliedschaft im Verbund Berlin Research 50
aid info-service consumer protection, food, agriculture, Bonn: the main activity of the aid info-service is the transfer of information from research and practice to the fields of agriculture, food and nutrition. Above and beyond the existing contacts, the aim of the co-operation between the two institutes is to work together to achieve progress in consumer health protection on German and European level. This aim is achieved not only through the scientific work of the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment but also by ensuring consumer-friendly communication and information.
External Link:German Institute for Standardization (DIN), Berlin
External Link:Stiftung Warentest consumer information service (StWt), Berlin: Stiftung Warentest was created in 1964 by a decision of the German Bundestag parliament in order to provide consumers with independent and objective support in the form of comparative tests of products and services. The BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is represented on the Board of Trustees by Professor Dr. R. Wittkowski.
German Agricultural Research Alliance (DAFA): DAFA was founded in the autumn of 2010 on the initiative of the BMELV (now called BMELshort forGerman Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture) by various university institutes, universities and departmental research institutes. It sees itself as a network for German agricultural and nutrition research and primarily aims to increase the visibility of German agricultural and nutrition research in an international context. The BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment is represented in the specialised "Aquaculture" and "Production Animals" forums.
German Chemical Society (GDCh), Society of Food Chemistry: the Society of Food Chemistry is the biggest division of the GDCh and investigates research and the exchange of information in the field of the composition and effects of food. This is an area in which the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment can generate key stimuli for consumer protection and information
Berlin Working Group on Information - BAK (cooperative membership): the BAK is a specialist community for information professionals in libraries, archives and documentation centres.
The Fraunhofer Institute for the Promotion of Applied Research (FhG) co-operates with the BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in the field of research with the aim of ensuring food safety in all stages of the commodity chain. The External Link:Fraunhofer Food Chain Management Alliance pools the activities of the FhG in the field of food research and is active at the interface to national and international public funding authorities as well as at the interface to the food industry.