The Max Planck Society

The MPG employs 23,767 staff. 15,209 of them – in other words about 64 percent – work in the scientific field. The financing of the Max Planck Society is predominantly comprised of basic financing from the public sector, in the year 2018 the MPG is financed to approximately 1,8 billion euros. In addition, the Max Planck Society and its Institutes receive third party project funding from public and private contributions and from the European Union. The federal and state governments jointly provide the subsidies for the budget of the Max Planck Society.

The currently 84 Max Planck Institutes and facilities conduct basic research in the service of the general public in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. Max Planck Institutes focus on research fields that are particularly innovative, or that are especially demanding in terms of funding or time requirements. And their research spectrum is continually evolving: new institutes are established to find answers to seminal, forward-looking scientific questions, while others are closed when, for example, their research field has been widely established at universities. This continuous renewal preserves the scope the Max Planck Society needs to react quickly to pioneering scientific developments. Here you can find pictures from the research landscape of the Max Planck Society.