Infrastructure

Baden Württemberg is one of the regions of Europe which may lay claim to the highest number of universities and colleges and an intensive research activity. It has a sophisticated and highly developed research infrastructure in which the fields of fundamental research and application-oriented research are equally represented, and which is supplemented by a broad and intricate system of transfer institutes.

• 9 Universities
• Excellence Initiative
• 23 Universities of Applied Sciences
• 6 Universities of Education
• 10 Universities of Music and Art Academies
• 1 Cooperative State University
• 11 Institutes and 1 outpost of the Max-Planck Society
• 14 Institutes of Fraunhofer Society
• 12 Institutes of the Innovation Alliance
• 2 Research Centres and 1 Outpost of the Hermann-von-Helmholtz Society
• 7 Institutes of the Leibniz Society
• Other Research and Transfer Centres
• The Baden Württemberg Research Network BelWü

Institutions for Ressort Research:

• Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector of Baden Württemberg
• Research Institutions of the departments at the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Protection and the Energy Sector
• Ministry of Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection

The more than 400 transfer centres of the Steinbeis Stiftung für Wirtschaftsförderung in Baden Württemberg consider their main sphere of competence to be the implementation of research results from the universities in industry through development projects, consultancy and training.