The planned innovation laboratory “High Performance Materials” expands Giessen’s core competencies in the field of material and material knowledge. The innovation laboratory is intended to form a research platform that offers companies in Hesse long-term cooperation in the development and characterisation of high-performance materials. Five Hessian world-renowned companies with great business interest in the development of high-performance materials for a wide range of applications, together with the innovation laboratory, are developing first materials and materials for the rapidly developing high-tech chnologies in the field of mobility in jointly defined pilot projects.