As one of Germany’s leading project management organisations we are a partner for researchers, industry representatives and policy-makers. With our capacities in research and innovation management we help our contractors at federal and federal state level and in the European Commission realise their research targets. We thus serve as an important interface between our partners – to make Germany a competitive research and innovation location in a common European Research Area. In 1974, the Federal Minister for Research initiated the foundation of Project Management Jülich. In the beginning its brief was to implement the Federal Governments Energy Research Programme. Today, our staff of around 400 colleagues acting in ten fields of work cover a broad thematic array. As a largely independent unit within Research Centre Jülich we are connected to a qualified scientific environment and we can rely on an efficient infrastructure. In addition to our offices in Jülich we have subsidiary offices in Berlin and Rostock-Warnemünde. To assure the quality of our services Project Management Jülich introduced a quality management system in 2004 that was certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001 in 2005. With its National Contact Points Project Management Jülich coordinates the implementation of the EU Framework Programmes in Germany and thus ensures the success and efficiency of German proposal submitters. On behalf of the Federal Ministries Project Management Jülich participates in some ERA-NETs either as the coordinator of the network or as a partner assuming tasks with regards to contents.