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Fogra Research
From the laboratory to the practice
The objective of Fogra Graphic Technology Research Association is to support the printing technology in the fields of research, development and application and to transfer the results to the printing industry for practical use. To this end the Association maintains its own institute, with a staff of 55 that includes engineers, chemists and physicists. Fogra has over 600 members. About half of them are printing businesses operating in fields ranging from prepress through to bookbinding, while the other half are suppliers. 20 % of the members are based outside Germany. Fogra is member of the German Federation of Industrial Cooperative Research Associations AiF.
The ten Technical Committees, responsible for various specialist topics, are a central part of Fogra. In these committees, specialists from printing businesses, and Fogra staff, define industry problems which are to be studied. The progress and results of work are also discussed at the Committee meetings. Thus the Committees fulfil a creative and a monitoring function. At the same time they characterise the work style of an institute which has come a long way from the ivory tower of scholarship to meet the needs of the printing industry. Fogra’s tasks consist of research, development, transfer of know-how, standards work, consultancy and technical reports.
The printed versions of all brand new summaries of Fogra research reports are automatically sent to Fogra members free of charge.
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Fogra Research programme [PDF with 600 KB]
The AiF - promoting innovative medium-sized enterprises
The AiF is the German Federation of Industrial Cooperative Research Associations AiF. The central concern of this registered non-profit association is the promotion of applied Research and Development [R&D] for the benefit of small and medium-sized enterprises [SME]. Organized by industry, the AiF supports the efficient usage and advancement of R&D-programmes in order to increase the competitive strength of SME. To this end, the AiF has created a unique infrastructure, comprising an industry-based innovations network covering over 100 industrial research associations, with approx. 50,000 SME, and about 700 associated research institutions.
Within this structure, the AiF's two offices in Cologne and Berlin provide practice-driven innovation consultancy promoting R&D on a national and, increasingly, an international scale. Since its foundation in 1954 the AiF has been a competent partner to the federal government - currently the Federal Ministries of Economics and Labour [BMWA] and of Education and Research [BMBF] - functioning as a bridge between industry and science within the framework of various R&D-programmes. The AiF acts as an agency for the promotion of R&D for small and medium-sized enterprises in two ways: on the one hand, it lays the foundations for industrial cooperative research in the pre-competitive stage for the benefit of entire industrial sectors; and on the other hand, the AiF acts as a programme managing executive for governmental R&D-support-measures for the benefit of individual companies and Universities of Applied Sciences. Overall, the AiF has an annual budget of nearly 250 million Euro of public funds.
Further information
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