Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ) is one of the leading research institutions in Germany with about 4200 employees. Energy technology is one of the main research topics with an in-volvement of approx. 350 person-years. Protection of the environment and natural resources, economy and safety are among the prime research goals. Over the past decade FZJ has been in-volved in several national programmes on SOFC co-operating with industries like Siemens and DaimlerBenz/Dornier as well as in several European projects co-operating with research insti-tutes (ECN, Petten, NL; DTU, Roskilde, DK) and industries. Currently FZJ is involved in several EU projects dealing with e.g. SOFC plant development (ProCon) and improvement of SOFC du-rability (Real-SOFC). The research fields Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) are carried out by the Institute of Materials and Processes in Energy Technology of FZJ.