German Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, which brings together more than eighty institutes and research centers, has won the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, has informed the Foundation that grants these awards.
The jury praised “the European vocation of the Company, the interdisciplinary approach and close cooperation between research centers and universities around the world.” Max Planck Institutes involved over 2,000 cooperation projects with almost 6,000 members in over a hundred countries, including Spain, where it operates, along with the National Research Council (CSIC), the observatory Astronomical Calar Alto (Almería).
Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation Institute also recognizes his work in universal education and social and economic development : The company, based in the city of Munich, has A total of 80 institutes, five of them abroad, has also more than 40 research groups in universities around the world and employs over 17,000 people and 4,000 researchers .
According to the juryPrince of Asturias Prize, “the centers within the network develop basic research for the benefit of society”, research that would “require extra funds “, and are not able to find financing by conventional means.
“Science is cooperation , without cooperation and without science there will be no human progress “, said Pedro Alonso, winner of the Prince of Asturias Cooperation in 2008 , made public after the jury’s verdict.
Thus, stressed that “science can only be cooperative if we want to address the great challenges of humanity”. Therefore has value to the activity of a network of German-born “profoundly European and global vocation “.
Spanish scientist Juan Ignacio Cirac, candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 for his research on quantum information theory, and Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research 2006, directs the Theory Division of the Max Planck Quantum Optics.
Number one in research
The institute has a culture and work ethic deeply rooted. Its principles, the first the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, predecessor of the current school, established as primordial freedom include research and recruitment, and decent working conditions .
In the latest rankings of non-university research institutions published by the British magazine Times Higher Education Supplement in 2006, the Max Planck Society listed as the number one scientific research and the number three global technology research .
Named in memory of the German physicist who created the quantum theory, Max Planck Institute was opened in 1948 as a continuation of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science, which had begun its work in 1911. Since its founding, seventeen scientists later awarded the Nobel Prize have worked in the Max Planck Society, which annually publishes over 15,000 references in leading scientific journals.
Each of the Prince of Asturias Prize, first awarded in 1981, is equipped with a sculpture by Joan Miró representative symbol of the award-the cash amount of EUR 50,000, a certificate and a badge . The awards will be presented in the autumn in Oviedo , in a grand ceremony chaired by HRH the Prince of Asturias.
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