11 Facts About Fraunhofer Society

In October 2010, Fraunhofer Society announced that it would open its first research center in South America.

One of the best known Fraunhofer Society developments is the MP3 audio data compression process.

Fraunhofer Society was founded in Munich on March 26,1949, by representatives of industry and academia, the government of Bavaria, and the nascent Federal Republic.

In 1952, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs declared the Fraunhofer Society to be the third part of the non-university German research landscape.

In 1959, the Fraunhofer Society comprised nine institutes with 135 coworkers and a budget of 3.

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In 1965, the Fraunhofer Society was identified as a sponsor organization for applied research.

In 1968, the Fraunhofer Society became the target of public criticism for its role in military research.

In 1991, the Fraunhofer Society faced the challenge of integrating numerous research establishments in former East Germany as branch offices of already-existing institutes in the Fraunhofer Society.

Fraunhofer Society developed and formulated a firm specific mission statement summarizing fundamental targets and codifying the desired "values and guidelines" of the society's "culture".

In 2004, the former "Fraunhofer Society Working Group for Electronic Media Technology" at the Fraunhofer Society-Institut for Integrated Circuits gained the status of an independent institute.

In 2012, the cooperation of Fraunhofer Society with selected research-oriented universities of applied sciences based on the "Application Center" model started.