Mission Statement

Our Vision, our Mission, our Values.

Our Vision

Players in science and innovation have reliable access to all digital information and tools relevant to them - anytime and anywhere.

Our Mission

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value creation process

We research, develop and operate methods, processes and services for a sustainable information infrastructure. We offer data, information and knowledge, software and services via open and legally compliant platforms. We make them searchable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. We support the value creation process in science and innovation at all levels. We enable research questions to be answered and new ones to be posed. In doing so, we follow our guiding principle “Advancing Science“.

Our Values

Responsibility determines our actions both within and outside of our organization

  • In making our decisions, we carefully weigh opportunities against risks. 
  • We treat all business-critical matters and information confidentially, taking technical and organizational security into account. 
  • We are committed to equal opportunities and actively support the further development of our employees as well as work-life balance and safe working environments. 
  • We treat the environment and its resources with care.

Integrity ensures our credibility both within and outside of our organization

  • As an institute with a public mission we are committed to neutrality. 
  • We follow the rules of good scientific practice. 
  • We apply the Public Corporate Governance Codex of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg.

Quality plays an essential role in our work

  • Quality determines the value of our services and their acceptance by our users. 
  • We see quality management and quality assurance as a continuous, institute-wide task.

Respect ­means For us mutual respect and trust, fairness and recognition

  • We meet our stakeholders at eye level.   
  • We live a corporate culture that respects and values people in all their diversity. 
  • We strictly reject any form of discrimination in language and action.

We are open to new ideas and to those who contribute them

  • We create trust and reliability through transparency. 
  • Together, we strive for improvement and give ourselves the freedom to develop further. 
  • We work on our own responsibility and deal constructively with mistakes. 

Our Vision, our Mission, our Values.

The mission statement brochure of FIZ Karlsruhe:

Mission Statement (PDF)