The biotechnological research network "Molecular Interaction Engineering" (MIE) was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 2013-2018. The competences within the Helmholtz community 
in the fields of biotechnology, structure biology, material sciences, process engineering and computational simulations were bundled and focussed on the development of innovative, flexible and at the same time economic biotechnological production systems. Working groups of the Forschungszentrum Jülich 
, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology were involved.
Toghether we developed biotechnological - technical hybrid systems which are based on the principles of nature and exploit these systematically.
