Forschungszentrum Jülich

With more than 7000 scientists and employees, the "Forschungszentrum Jülich" (FZJ), is one of the largest research institutions in Europe.

After 18 months of development, the main portal fz-juelich.de was relaunched with Plone in April 2022, together with 11 institute websites, 80 institute department websites, and hundreds of other FZJ websites.

All FZJ websites use the modern Plone 6 stack that consists of a Plone backend, Plone REST API and the new ReactJS-based Volto frontend.

One of the largest research institutions in Europe uses Plone 6 to power hundreds of websites.

Visit the site: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en

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Statistics
90+
Institutes and Departments
7000+
Employees
200+
Sites

About The Client

With more than 7000 scientists and employees, the Forschungszentrum Jülich" (FZJ), is one of the largest research institutions in Europe.

After 18 months of development, the main portal fz-juelich.de was relaunched with Plone in April 2022, together with 11 institute websites, more than 80 institute department websites, and hundreds of other FZJ websites.

All FZJ websites use the modern Plone 6 stack that consists of a Plone backend, Plone REST API and the new ReactJS-based Volto frontend.

Project Facts

  • Plone 5.2 + Volto 14 (Plone 6 Frontend)

  • Project Duration: 18 Months (November 2020 – April 2022) 

  • Launch: Begin of 2022

Hundreds of Websites

Plone runs the main portal under fz-juelich.de and hundreds of institutes, institute departments, organizational and project subsites, and individual websites. Editors can create subsites with a simple mouseclick, just like any other content type in Plone. New Plone sites can be created by filling out a simple form and a mouse click. Subsites can be individualized with a custom logo, custom colors and custom fonts by changing those settings in a control panel. Examples of separate subsites are www.hi-ern.de and www.tagderneugier.de.

All subsites can use content from each other. News items can be aggregated from instittute and subsites from the main portal. Subsites can show news items and other content from the portal if needed.

Plone Plays Well with Others

The site comes with multiple integrations. Editors can login with their central user credentials from the AD/LDAP. Member profile information is automatically synced from AD/LDAP. Job offers for the carrer website are automatically synced with the HR system of the FZJ.

Powerful Enterprise Search

A powerful search not only offers all the enterprise features that you'd expect from a search (fuzzy search, search facets, etc.) is also allows the users to search across all FZJ subsites as well as restrict the search to individual subsites.

Ploneconf 2022 Presentation

Presentation about the FZJ relaunch at Ploneconf 2022.

Open Source Add-Ons

The following add-ons have been developed, improved and open sourced as part of the project:

You can see all those blocks in action on fz-juelich.de.

Provider

kitconcept is a Plone agency with offices in Bonn, Germany and Barcelona, Catalunya. kitconcept is the driving force behind the development of Plone 6 and the new Volto frontend. With 14 Plone core developers, 8 Plone Foundation Members, Two Release Managers, two (ex) members of the Plone board of directors, and numerous Plone team members (Framework, Security, Release, Marketing, AI, Testing/CI/CD) kitconcept is one of the largest and most influential Plone companies wordwide.

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