Numbers, Data and Facts

Budget and Revenue*

Fraunhofer IFF’s total budgeted expenditures in the year 2023 amounted to €20.1 million. Total outside revenues amounted to €11.4 million. Business revenue accounted for € 4.2 million of that.

€7.3 million came from public sector, EU and other funding. Institutional funding comprised €8.7 million. Budgeted capital expenditures for the year 2023 totaled €0.5 million.

Human Resource Development

Fraunhofer IFF employed 202 full-time employees as of December 31, 2023. The majority of our research scientists have a degree in an engineering discipline. Staff with degrees in human sciences, economics, mathematics, physics and business work at the institute as well. They all work together in interdisciplinary research teams and administrative services.

Education and Training

Fifty-seven student assistants and seven interns additionally supported our research work. We are also pleased to have supervised three professional trainees.

Thirty-seven employees of Fraunhofer IFF worked as faculty and adjunct faculty at universities and universities of applied science. Altogether, we advised thirty-six master’s and Diplom theses and four successfully completed dissertations. Furthermore, the institute’s research scientists published seventy-six scientific articles and papers in 2023.

* All amounts are rounded