Overview
Lobbying Costs
450,000€
Financial year: Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5 Fte (6)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
5
High-level Commission meetings
26
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (FhG)
EU Transparency Register
35124436517-75 First registered on 31 Aug 2011
Goals / Remit
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the leading organization for applied research in Europe. Its research activities are conducted by 67 institutes and research units at locations throughout Germany. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft employs a staff of 24,000, who work with an annual research budget totaling more than 2.1 billion euros. Of this sum, more than 1.8 billion euros is generated through contract research. More than 70 percent of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s contract research revenue is derived from contracts with industry and from publicly financed research projects. International collaborations with excellent research partners and innovative companies around the world ensure direct access to regions of the greatest importance to present and future scientific progress and economic development.
Main EU files targeted
Numerous contacts with European Institutions concerning research and innovation policy especially in the context of "Horizon 2020" and related policy areas.
Address
Head Office
Hansastraße 27c
München 80686
GERMANYEU Office
Rue Royale 94
Brüssel 1000
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People
Total lobbyists declared
6
Employment time Lobbyists 100% 5 50% 1 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time
5 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 23 Aug 2017
Name Start date End Date Ms Verena FENNEMANN 12 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Mr Mathias Rauch 12 Oct 2023 11 Oct 2024 Ms Elisabeth PAUL 07 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Ms Jo Hannah ZACHARIAS 07 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Ms Cathérine Steelant 07 Oct 2023 04 Oct 2024 Ms Katrin MÖGELE 03 Oct 2023 02 Oct 2024 Mr Axel POLS 03 Oct 2023 22 Mar 2024 Ms Tina STEFANOVA 03 Oct 2023 02 Oct 2024 Ms Natalija SCHAJKA 03 Oct 2023 22 Mar 2024 Ms Nala MÜLLER 03 Oct 2023 02 Oct 2024 Ms Elisabeth PAUL 30 Aug 2022 01 Dec 2022 Ms Jo Hannah ZACHARIAS 12 Feb 2020 01 Sep 2020 Ms Julia SCHMALENBERG 16 Jan 2020 01 Feb 2021 Ms Carina Melanie DIRKES 03 Dec 2019 03 Mar 2020 Ms Verena FENNEMANN 19 Sep 2019 19 Sep 2020 Ms Nathalie Julienne SCHYNAWA 14 Sep 2019 14 Dec 2019 Mr Moritz BENDER 19 Jul 2019 01 Nov 2019 Mr Christian DAAKE 19 Apr 2019 01 Sep 2019 Ms Cathérine Steelant 16 Mar 2019 01 Apr 2020 Mr Mathias Rauch 15 Mar 2019 01 Apr 2020 Mr Christopher FRIELING 12 Jan 2019 11 Jan 2020 Mr Jan Philipp FREDEBEUL 12 Jan 2019 11 May 2019 Ms Julia SCHMALENBERG 11 Jan 2019 11 Jan 2020 Ms Helene SCHMIDTKE 25 Sep 2018 01 Jan 2019 Ms Verena FENNEMANN 06 Jul 2018 06 Jul 2019 Mr Jakob SAUER 04 May 2018 04 Sep 2018 Ms Cathérine Steelant 16 Mar 2018 15 Mar 2019 Ms Helene SCHMIDTKE 16 Mar 2018 15 Sep 2018 Mr Mathias Rauch 03 Mar 2018 02 Mar 2019 Mr Christopher FRIELING 11 Jan 2018 10 Jan 2019 Ms Julia SCHMALENBERG 09 Jan 2018 09 Jan 2019 Ms Carina FABER 13 Nov 2017 16 Mar 2018 Ms Luise Martina RUGE 05 Oct 2017 09 Jan 2018 Ms Beatrix GITTIG 08 Aug 2017 05 Oct 2017 Ms Cathérine Steelant 23 Mar 2017 16 Mar 2018 Mr Paul Leopold GERHARZ 20 Mar 2017 16 Aug 2017 Mr Christopher FRIELING 27 Jan 2017 11 Jan 2018 Ms Julia SCHMALENBERG 25 Jan 2017 09 Jan 2018 Ms Teresa Johanna ESPELAGE 19 Oct 2016 18 Feb 2017 Ms Carina FABER 30 Sep 2016 24 Sep 2017 Ms Kathrin WERNER 20 May 2016 17 Jul 2016 Ms Cathérine Steelant 08 Apr 2016 23 Mar 2017 Ms Flora MATTHAES 12 Feb 2016 10 Jul 2016 Ms Julia SCHMALENBERG 15 Dec 2015 11 Dec 2016 Mr Christopher FRIELING 08 Dec 2015 04 Dec 2016 Mr Mathias Rauch 08 Dec 2015 02 Dec 2016 Ms Martina Ingeborg SPENGLER 08 Oct 2015 06 Jan 2016 Mr Nico Rainer GOLLER 08 Oct 2015 06 Mar 2016 Ms Samira Khodaei Dolouei 25 Apr 2015 07 Oct 2015 Ms Cathérine Steelant 24 Apr 2015 08 Apr 2016 Mr Mathias Rauch 20 Nov 2014 18 Nov 2015 Mr Christopher FRIELING 01 Oct 2014 29 Sep 2015 Mrs Isabelle Frech 14 Jan 2014 10 Apr 2014 Mrs Cathérine Steelant 08 Nov 2013 07 Nov 2014 Mr Moritz Vernier 07 Nov 2013 06 Mar 2014 Mrs Janina Zimmermann 03 Sep 2013 31 Dec 2013 Mr Christopher FRIELING 06 Aug 2013 03 Aug 2014 Ms Johanna Hebestreit 05 Mar 2013 02 Aug 2013 Ms Constanze FUHRMANN 27 Feb 2013 26 Feb 2014 Mr Christopher FRIELING 23 Feb 2013 21 May 2013 Mrs Cathérine Steelant 23 Jan 2013 12 Sep 2013 Mrs Ines Dani 25 Jan 2013 17 Jun 2013 Mrs Cathérine Steelant 25 May 2012 01 Oct 2012 Constanze FUHRMANN 03 Apr 2012 01 Oct 2012 Ms Heike Hoffzimmer 03 May 2012 16 Jul 2012 Mr Frederic HANS 19 Dec 2011 31 Mar 2012 Mr Christopher FRIELING 07 Feb 2012 23 Feb 2013 Complementary Information
None declared
Person in charge of EU relations
Mr Mathias Rauch (Director EU Affairs)
Person with legal responsibility
Mr Mathias Rauch (Director EU Affairs)
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/institutes/international/networks.html
Member organisations
None declared
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Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
450,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
105,000,000 € (Source: Various)
Other financial info
Annual report 2015:
https://www.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/zv/de/publikationen/Jahresbericht/jb2015/Jahresbericht-2015.pdf -
EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
- Participation in several European Technology Platforms and other High-Level Groups
- Horizon 2020 Advisory GroupsACC
None
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
None
Other activities
None declared
Meetings
Meetings
26 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
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Date 10 Jan 2022 Location Virtual Subject Semiconductors DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
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Date 10 Jan 2022 Location Virtual Subject Semiconductors DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology Attending - Roberto Viola (Director-General)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 15 Nov 2021 Location Online Subject EU Chips Act Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Alina-Stefania Ujupan (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Nov 2021 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Will follow Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Joan Canton (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 10 Jun 2021 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable of the Clean Hydrogen Alliance: 3rd meeting of the co-chairs Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
Other Lobbyists - WACKER CHEMIE AG
- Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen S.A.
- Nouryon
- St1 Nordic Oy
- Agora Energiewende
- SSAB AB
- YARA BELGIUM S.A.
- TotalEnergies SE
- Sandbag Climate Campaign
- TotalEnergies Electricité et Gaz France
- Fertiberia, S.A.
- Climate Action Network Europe
- Dow Europe GmbH
- International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers
- WWF European Policy Programme
- The European Steel Association
- Baker Hughes Holdings
- UPM-Kymmene Oyj
- ING Group
- Paul Wurth S.A.
- Neste Oyj
- Siemens Energy AG
- thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG
- European Environmental Bureau
- Tata Steel Nederland
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Date 27 Nov 2020 Location Videoconference Subject Roundtable on Processors Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton Portfolio Internal Market Attending - Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet member)
- Thierry Breton (Commissioner)
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Date 27 Oct 2020 Location Brussels Subject EC objectives in hydrogen energy and research on hydrogen technology at Fraunhofer Institutes DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kerstin Jorna (Director-General)
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Date 19 Oct 2020 Location Conference call Subject New ways of working Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Johannes Hahn Portfolio Budget and Administration Attending - Sibylle Bikar (Cabinet member)
- Christiane Kirketerp De Viron (Cabinet member)
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Date 05 Jun 2020 Location Phone call Subject Introductory phone call to present their concerns on IP and SEPs DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs Attending - Kerstin Jorna (Director-General)
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Date 17 Oct 2019 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Keynote speech at High-level conference DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 05 Apr 2019 Location Brussels Subject European Research Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Thibaut Kleiner (Cabinet member)
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Date 04 Apr 2019 Location Brussels Subject European Research in the MFF Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 06 Nov 2018 Location Brussels Subject RTO Innovation Summit DG Research and Innovation Attending - Jean-Eric Paquet (Director-General)
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Date 12 Jun 2018 Location Hannover CEBIT Subject Visit of CEBIT stand (eHealth, AI, IoT, Cyverscecurity, Vertigo Starts project) Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel Portfolio Digital Economy and Society Attending - Mariya Gabriel (Commissioner)
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Date 22 May 2018 Location Berlin Subject MFF and implications on FP9 Cabinet Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger Portfolio Budget & Human Resources Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Mar 2017 Location Brussels, Belgium Subject Standardisation Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Competition Attending - Friedrich Wenzel Bulst (Cabinet member)
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Date 07 Feb 2017 Location Brussels Subject Business discussion Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Tom Tynan (Cabinet member)
Other Lobbyists -
Date 07 Feb 2017 Location Brussels Subject Digitizing agriculture Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan Portfolio Agriculture & Rural Development Attending - Phil Hogan (Commissioner)
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Date 06 Jul 2016 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
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Date 10 Jun 2016 Location Brussels Subject Standards/IoT DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Thibaut Kleiner (Cabinet member)
- Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
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Date 03 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject European Innovation Council Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Carlos Moedas (Commissioner)
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Date 03 Dec 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)
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Date 19 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject Prep meeting for meeting with President of Fraunhofer with Commissioner Moedas Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Maria Da Graca Carvalho (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Nov 2015 Location Brussels Subject DSM DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Michael Hager (Cabinet member)
- Markus Schulte (Cabinet member)
- Eric Mamer (Cabinet member)
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Date 16 Dec 2014 Location Strasbourg Subject Meeting with MEP C. Turmes on xGWP – European Gigawatt Fab Cabinet Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas Portfolio Research, Science and Innovation Attending - Carlos Moedas (Commissioner)
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Date 02 Dec 2014 Location Brussels Subject Digital Society DG Günther Oettinger Attending - Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)