Environment (E+E) Information and Intelligence (I+I) Matter and Materials (M+M). Each of these research fields cover several, focused Profile Topic which are taken to shape the academic reputation of TU Darmstadt. Research At TU Darmstadt there are several Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB, collaborative research units) as well as several Graduiertenkolleg's (graduate schools) that are funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The university has attracted a considerable number of national and international research institutions to the Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt (Darmstadt – City of Science). Among them are: GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellite (EUMETSAT). ATHENE German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) TU Darmstadt collaborates with these research institutes on a broad basis. For instance, TU Darmstadt and GSI agreed on a strategic partnership, which includes collaboration in the establishment of the FAIR Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research. The European Space Agency has set up a research laboratory at TU Darmstadt, ESA_LAB@TU Darmstadt. It is the first research laboratory the European Space Agency has set up at a German university. In 2018, TU Darmstadt has won the competition of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and is building an Institute for Manufacturing together with 50 partners including Siemens, Volkswagen, KUKA, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Volvo. There will be an EIT Manufacturing Innovation Hub at the university. TU Darmstadt is involved in the German Excellence Initiative. This initiative sponsored the Cluster of Excellence Smart Interfaces (2007–2014), the Graduate School of Computational Engineering and the Graduate School of Excellence Energy Science and Engineering. TU Darmstadt is also partially involved with the Cluster of Excellence Normative Orders, based at Goethe University Frankfurt. Cooperation with companies The Technische Universität Darmstadt maintains several research collaborations with companies and research institutions. These include, for example: PRORETA, a research collaboration with Continental AG, whose goal is to develop driver assistance systems that avoid traffic accidents. With Merck Group there is a long cooperation, especial in Chemistry and material science. There is also a Merck Lab in cooperation with the chemistry department. Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing (ICRI-SC), a joint institute of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and Intel, which deals with the security of system-on-a-chip platforms. It is the