Fraunhofer is a non-profit organization headquartered in Germany, founded in 1949, and operating with approximately 2,560 employees. Functioning as an application-oriented research organization, its main offering is research services.
On October 5, 2026, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft officially opened the new building of its Center for Energy Storage and Systems (ZESS) in Braunschweig. The inauguration aims to strengthen technology transfer and sustainable energy storage research in Germany, with the federal government and state investing nearly €50 million into the research hub focused on solid-state batteries, cell production, and hydrogen technologies. Separately on October 7, Fraunhofer, in collaboration with Rinn Artificial Intelligence, Fraunhofer FIT, and Fraunhofer ISST, launched the Next Generation Dataspaces Initiative (NGDI), a new strategic research collaboration focused on next-generation European data spaces. Previously, on October 1, Michael Sedlmair joined Matthias Unbescheiden in the leadership team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), expanding its institute management. Earlier in October, Fraunhofer researchers developed bio-printing inks made from common tissue proteins, addressing previous limitations in 3D bioprinting where existing bio-inks did not adequately replicate the physiological structure and composition of tissues for producing organs and tissues.
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