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| THE ACADEMY Tasks and Mission The Junge Akademie was founded in the year 2000 as an academy for the new generation of scientists and scholars. It is a joint project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities ( Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften - BBAW) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina). Its remit is to promote interdisciplinary discourse and co-operation between outstanding young scientists and scholars, and to support initiatives at the interface between science and society. BBAW Leopoldina |
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| Funding The Junge Akademie is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung - BMBF) and the Volkswagen Foundation. Each member is allocated a research budget of EUR 25,600 to support joint scientific projects.
The Junge Akademie is free to choose its own forms of operation. |
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| Members The members of the Junge Akademie are elected for a period of five years.
Candidates are expected to have obtained an outstanding doctoral qualification 3 to 7 years previously,
and they should have completed at least one academic work of excellence since then.
Members are from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, and are generally from the German-speaking countries. |
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| Organisation The Junge Akademie is independent regarding the contents of its academic activities. Plenary sessions of all the members are held three times a year in order to discuss on-going research activities and joint projects. During the spring meeting, the members elect a new executive committee and the Chair of the Junge Akademie. The term of office is one year, beginning with the summer meeting. To promote cooperation between members, interdisciplinary research groups can be proposed and agreed on at plenary sessions. Each group has at least three members including a speaker.Members of the present Executive Committee Current Research Groups |