Our Mission is to Accelerate Innovations

The HELMHOLTZ Acceleration Alliance (HELMA) will become Germany's leading consortium for autonomous AI/ML-based research based on Self-Driving Labs (SDLs) with the greatest activity  in the autonomous innovation development of health technologies through biomedical engineering and the digital acceleration of materials system discovery addressing communication technology, electronics, energy storage/conversion, and catalysis. Together with academic, clinical and industrial partners, HELMA will accelerate the path from ideas to data and innovation by redefining labs in smart data centers. Redefining the labs of the future with seamless automation and innovative AI/ML solutions and enabling remote infrastructure access via a cloud lab will unlock transformative increase of discoveries, scaling scientific impact to unprecedented levels without escalating resource use.  This framework is set to drive significant change, transition research into the digital age, moving away from traditional, manual approaches to innovation development, while minimizing the environmental impact of large-scale research activities.

The HELMA Ecosystem

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Participating Centers

Accelerating the translation of research on smart and sustainable materials and health technologies into innvoations is more critical than ever to tackle  many of societie's most pressing challenges for a healthier and more sustainable future. With a specific focus on health technologies and bioengineering and the accelerated  and autonomous cluster- and high-entropy materials discovery  HELMA will complement the world-leading alliances of accelerated and autonomous research.

With our SDL ecosystem, we bring together not only scientists but also interested industry partners who share common goals: the exchange of resources and knowledge, the joint development of standards and best practices and the connection of key players in the value chain to accelerate the implementation and transfer of research.

 

KIT
KIT

The KIT is forming the nucleus of the HELMA ecosystem by operating several SDLs and the Cloud Lab. From this nucleus  we will build the bridge to other HELMHOLTZ Research Fields and world-leading Alliances

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hereon
Hereon

Hereon will establish an SDL platform that will enable the development of digital twins for different process routes for implants including biological effect and in operando monitoring.

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FZJ
FZJ

At the FZJ activities in the field of autonomous research is represented by the AMANDA platform (Autonomous Materials and Device Application), which has been developed as a generic platform for distributed materials research

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HZB
HZB

At Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, characterization with advanced-operando analytical methods is carried out at a unique level at the synchrotron BESSY II, which can be fully integrated into an SDL and participate in the alliance via cloud labs.

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