Benefits for our members
Our members are already enjoying the many benefits
The member companies of the IKV Association of Sponsors rank amongst the most innovative in their sector. Boost your company’s innovative capacity too by engaging in close and long-term cooperation with IKV. In the joint research projects that we conduct with industry, we work with you to acquire the leading-edge knowledge that is decisive for success in the face of global competition.
Membership of the Association of Sponsors means the following for your company:
Through our close ties with the Institute, not only at the official meetings but also through our direct personal contacts with the scientific assistants there, Reifenhäuser Blown Film GmbH benefits directly from the Institute’s latest research results.
Dr.-Ing. Christoph Lettowsky, Reifenhäuser Blown Film GmbH
Strengthen our network
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ch. Hopmann
Director of the Institute Managing Director of the IKV’s Association of Sponsors +49 241 80-93838 office@ikv.rwth-aachen.deHave you any questions about membership of the IKV Association of Sponsors? We look forward to hearing from you.
Transfer of knowledge and findings
Technology transfer constitutes a key feature of IKV’s work. We are a scientific and research institute that makes our findings and knowledge transparent to our member companies. To ensure that we do this both continuously and seamlessly, we use a variety of channels to communicate with our sponsors.
How our knowledge transfer works
- In the Advisory Board groups, you give us your input on current issues and problems encountered in your company. In this way, you actively help shape the direction of our research.
- We keep you up-to-date on current research projects and the latest developments in individual areas
- you receive the quarterly members’ magazine “IKV.Insight”. Every quarter, this contains an overview of IKV’s current research literature, including highly informative summaries of all the research work.
- The employees of your company receive a personalised IKV member account which gives them online access to summaries of current research papers and publications. The large amount of available literature can be selected according to subject areas, so that you can easily find the papers that are relevant to you. You may get a first impression of the available literature here:
>> Research literature online - The literature service provided exclusively for members is a convenient way of receiving unabridged experimental, diploma, bachelor’s and master’s theses. Members can use the Institute library with its lending service and its extensive collection of literature.
- Your personal contact is available to answer questions and will link you or your company into current research projects.
- You will be given access to research results by participating in the committees that accompany projects or via the Institute library.
- As a member, you and your employees benefit from discounts on all IKV symposiums, conferences and seminars.
Practically-oriented industrial joint research
Become a member and secure access to specifically targeted and application-oriented results for your company, and play an active role in setting the priorities for our research fields.
Conduct research with us
- You will be able to reduce your budget and support your R&D department through:
- general technical support for your R&D projects and
- projects sponsored by the public purse – e.g. by BMBF, BMWi or the EU
- several research partners working on a project together and each contributing their individual know-how.
- You will be able to actively influence the research projects through your exclusive participation in the IKV’s specialist Advisory Boards.
- We establish networks with industrial partners and with public, national and international sponsors.
Qualified, next-generation engineering scientists
Engineers “Made in Germany” enjoy a unique reputation all over the world – something that is due, not least, to the excellent university education they receive. Well-educated engineers form the basis for the innovations of tomorrow. This is why IKV follows the principle of providing an excellent, practically-oriented education. Both the member companies and the IKV’s scientific assistants benefit directly from this.
We thus ensure industry has sufficient, qualified young engineers to meet its requirements
- through the Plastics Technology course at RWTH Aachen
- through the practically-oriented subjects selected for experimental, bachelor’s and master’s theses
- through your next-generation managers acquiring the necessary skills with a doctorate at IKV
- by establishing early and long-term contacts between young scientists and member companies – at exclusive recruiting events or through excursions to member companies, for example
- by sending students on industrial placements at member companies of the Sponsors’ Association.
- by creating intercultural competence through industrial placements and university semesters spent abroad in the context of exchange programmes