Organisation & Funding

As an institute under German law (the Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts), the IPB is protected and supervised by the  German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The IPB is a foundation, represented by a foundation advisory board, a scientific advisory board, and the directors of the institute. The  federal Ministry of Education and Research and the local state government (Saxony-Anhalt) fund the IPB in equal measures. Some of the research of the departments is done in collaboration with other German and international institutes as well as with industry. The institute is a member of the science society Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL;  www.wgl.de).