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==Website== | ==Website== | ||
Revision as of 22:08, 20 January 2011
Genius GmbH (Ltd) is a biotech PR firm based in Germany[1]. The company is described on its website as "a communicator between the field of science and the society".[2]
Genius was founded in 1998[3] as a spin-off of the Technical University Darmstadt. Shareholders are Kristina Sinemus, Klaus Minol, Hans Günter Gassen und Mogg. Kristina Sinemus is CEO, Klaus Minol Scientific Head.
Contents
Projects
Genius not only conceptualizes and designs print and online publications, but also provides content for them and develops some of this content through the active participation in German and EU projects. Genius describes itself as a “facilitator of transparency and communication” (Vermittler von Transparenz und Kommunikation), but the PR and consultancy company has a clear position in favour of genetic engineering.
GMO Safety
The website GMO Safety (www.gmosafety.eu) is organised by a project network of Genius, i-Bio Information Biowissenschaften (Transgen)[4] and (formerly) TÜV Nord.[5]
The GMO Safety website is financed by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)[6] and so gives the impression of being publicly funded. Only at the foot of the website in tiny letters is there a link to the website of the private company, Genius.[7]
A legal disclaimer lets the German ministry BMBF off the hook for any information put out on the GMO Safety site, saying: "The BMBF is not responsible for the information presented on GMO-Safety.eu."
The legal disclaimer page goes on to list the GMO Safety Project Leader as:[8]
- Genius GmbH
and lists the staff as:
- Dr. Kristina Sinemus (Head of Project Network) - she is also the CEO of Genius.[9]
- Dr. Klaus Minol (Assistant Project Management) - he is also the Scientific Manager of Genius.[10]
- Gabriele Völcker, Dr. Barbara Löchte, Dr. Alexander Stein
GMO Safety publishes the results of BMBF projects and additional information on genetic engineering. It is also supported by the EU projects BIOSAFENET (Joachim Schiemann and ISBR. Klaus Minol is the contact person for BIOSAFENET and the results of this project are published on gmosafety.eu.
GMO Compass
The website GMO Compass www.gmo-compass.org is maintained by Genius and Transgen.
Other projects
Kristina Sinemus and Klaus Minol represent Genius in the EU project CO-EXTRA as members of the management board, executive committee, as head of a working group and as editorial office.
Kristina Sinemus represents Genius in the EU project, Technology Platform Plants for the Future.
Participation in lobby organisations
Kristina Sinemus is member of the website committee of ISBR. The company Genius is member of BIO Germany and of the EFB.
Funding and clients
Genius has a wide range of clients from the German and European business sector and governments.[11]
Clients as at January 2011 include the German Ministry for education and research (BMBF), German Ministry for food, agriculture and consumer protection (BVL), the European Commission, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA); the biotechnology and agrochemical companies BASF AG, BASF Plant Science, Bayer AG, DuPont, Syngenta, and Novartis; pharma firm Pfizer Animal Health; the public-private plant breeding organisation InnoPlanta e.V.; and the public-private partnership Science4Life.[12]
A client list on an older website of Genius lists the American Soybean Association and EuropaBio as clients.[13]
Genius has edited EFSA's publications, including its annual report 2006.
Staff
This list is from the older Genius website, last updated 2006:[14]
- Dr Kristina Sinemus - CEO
- Dr. Klaus Minol - Scientific Manager
- Patrick Schmidt-Kühnle - Public Relations Manager
- Dr. Elisabeth Schulte - Agricultural Science
- Linda Hartenberger - Executive Assistant to the Management
As at January 2011 the new Genius website does not have a list of staff.[15]
Website
www.genius.de
Funding
Contact
- Address:
- ...
- ...
- ...
- ...
- Phone:
- ...
- Email:
- ...
- Website:
- ...
Resources
Notes
- ↑ Homepage, Genius website, accessed 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Homepage, Genius website, accessed 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Company, Genius website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Legal notice, GMO Safety website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ GMO-Safety.eu - Biosafety research made transparent, OpenPR website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Home page, GMO Safety website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Home page, GMO Safety website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Legal notice, GMO Safety website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Company, Genius website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Company, Genius website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Kunden Projekte Netzwerk, Genius website, accessed 28 Aug 2009
- ↑ Clients, Genius website, accessed 28 Aug 2009
- ↑ Reference, Genius website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Company, Genius website, acc 20 Jan 2011
- ↑ Team, Genius website, acc 20 Jan 2011
