VDI/VDE-IT – Germany

Mission

VDI/VDE-IT’s mission focuses on successful innovation where new technologies generate real economic and social impacts. VDI/VDE-IT promotes R&D&I by offering a comprehensive set of services for innovation programme management to public authorities. Being a non-governmental private innovation agency, VDI/VDE-IT continuously strives to improve.

Managed Funding Budget
1.2 B€ in 2020

  • VDI/VDE-IT is managing R&D&I programmes on behalf of the German Federal Government since 1978.
  • VDI/VDE-IT covers a multitude of technological and non-technological innovation topics ranging from education system, electronics, high performance computing, and energy storage to sustainable and automated mobility, medicine, industrial processes, AI, big data and cyber security.
  • VDI/VDE-IT addresses the complete innovation chain from ideation, research, creation, business model generation, growth phase implementation, to global economic exploitations.
  • VDI/VDE-IT provides all services for innovation programmes comprising programme management, strategic technology foresight processes, comprehensive market evaluations, socio-economic impact studies, performance monitoring, and beneficial stakeholder participation.
  • VDI/VDE-IT engages in research about funding impacts to further improve running processes and accomplish better achievements.

Staff
800 employees

Contact

Dr. Gereon Meyer
Head of Department European and International Business Development
gereon.meyer@vdivde-it.de
Phone +49 30 310078-134

Dr. Jan-Henrik Fischer Wolfarth
Head of Electronics and Digitalisation Section
jan-henrik.fischer-wolfarth@vdivde-it.de
Phone +49 30 310078-126

VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH
Steinplatz 1
10623 Berlin
Germany

www.vdivde-it.de