Tasks at ZMT:
- Lead Programme Area 5 "Societal Impact"
- Lead Office for Knowledge Exchange (OKE)
- Director International Ocean Institute (IOI) Germany
- Supporting: Actor engagement, knowledge exchange, capacity development, technology transfer (patents, licenses, spin-offs, sponsoring, etc.), environmental education, development cooperation
- Acquisition of third-party funding in the field of knowledge and technology transfer
- Stakeholder publications: Strategy, conception, editing
- Science-Society-Policy events: Strategy, conception, implementation, facilitation
- Development of new transfer formats
- Research-based policy advice incl. the editorial of the ZMT Policy Brief Series

