In 2002 the Institute probably had the most paradoxic financial year in its history: while we raised more incidental grants than ever before and increased our total turnover by 28 percent to ca. € 7.6m, the decline in structural resources that had been in progress for over a decade reached a point at which another reorganization was required. Despite the wealth of accomplishments in all our main areas of operation, the year was therefore not really satisfactory.
