Portrait

 

Tasks and objectives

 

 

Overview

The ATB's task is to create process-engineering bases for sustainable land-use management and to provide innovative technical solutions for industry.   By combining scientific and engineering findings, especially in the field of new technologies such as biotechnology and information technology, with economic and social science expertise, ATB aims to ensure that the newly developedATB main building processes and technical solutions are profitable for both manufacturers and users, at the same time ensuring environmental protection and sustainability.

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Name:

Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Engineering Potsdam-Bornim (ATB)

Head:

Prof. Dr. agr. habil. Reiner Brunsch 

Member of:

Leibniz Association
(Leibniz-Gemeinschaft - WGL)

Funding:

German Federal Ministry of Food,  Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV),
Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) of the State of Brandenburg,
third-party funds

Annual budget:

8,3 Mio. Euro basic funding 
3,1 Mio. Euro third-party funds (2010)

Staff:

approx. 250

Co-operation:

160 partners from higher education, research, industry and agriculture 
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Infrastructure:

  pilot plants for the  bioconversion of starchy plant biomass to lactic acid and for the preparation and processing of preserved natural fibres
  chemical, biotechnological, microbiological and fermentation labs, climate and respiration measuring labs, geographic information systems (GIS) lab, product property lab, thermography lab, wind tunnel and ionisation test stand, fluid dynamics laboratory with a test facility for milking, emissions measuring laboratory, experimental conveyor plant,  ergonomics lab....
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  raw material/energy plantation (3 ha), experimental lots (40 ha)
  technical library and central workshop

Spin offs:

  EnergieBeratungBornim (B3), Potsdam-Bornim (www.b3-bornim.de)
  GbR CONTROL IN APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY (CP), Berlin-Falkensee
(www.cp-info.de)

 

Perspectives and visions

Agriculture needs innovations to ensure the competitiveness of farm production on the world market. It is not only the site-specific disadvantages encountered by farming in many regions of Germany that present a problem here, the many and varied laws and regulations, especially in the fields of consumer, animal and environmental protection, make it imperative to develop new ideas. This is attributable to a growing public interest in environmentally sound production methods that conserve natural resources. The ATB is meeting this challenge via the development of new technical solutions and procedures that cater to the demands for ecological production methods, while at the same time helping to keep German agriculture competitive by minimising costs and optimising the quality of products and services.

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