Research Groups

To promote research, the plenary assembly encourages interdisciplinary teams within the Junge Akademie . Active members submit research topics.

Currently, there are eleven active research groups. present there are seventeen active research groups. For most of the groups further information is available in German only.

Ongoing topics of research:

• Art as Research?
  
• Climate & Culture
  
• Equality
  
• Frontiers of Quantum Theory
  
• Heureka - evidence criteria in research
  
• Human(s) - Rights
  
• Minorities: Past, Present and the Future
  
• Relativity
  
• Science-Based Policy Advice
  
• Teaching
  
• World of Sounds
  

Completed topics of research:

• Academic Politics (2000-2008)
  
• Archives, Museums, Collections
  and Future Perspectives (2002-2004)
  
• Autonomy (2006-2008)
  
• Bioethics and Ethics of Medicine (2004-2006)
  
• Boundaries (2004-2008)
  
• Defence. Models - Strategies - Media (2004-2006)
  
• Ethics in Science (2001-2003)
  
• Evolution (2005-2008)
  
• Information (2007-2008)
  
• Memory (2004-2010)
  
• Manners! (2006-2010)
  
• On the Life Sciences’ Power of Interpretation (2002-2006)
  
• Other Minds (2006-2010)
  
• PercAction - Linking Perception to Action (2002-2007)
  
• Renaissance of the Religious? (2005-2007)
  
• Representation (2000-2005)
  
• Rhythm (2004-2010)
  
• Self-organisation in Nature, Society, and Systems of Thought (2000-2005)
  
• Solidarity and Social Integration in the Denationalised Society (2001-2004)
  
• Straying from the straight and narrow (2001-2005)
  
• The Evolution of Genes, Languages, and Cultures (2001-2002)
  
• The Future of Work (2005-2008)
  
• The recent history of infectious diseases (2003-2005)
  
• Time, Change and Probability (2005-2006)
  
• Transport Processes (2000-2005)
  
• Water (2004-2007)
  
  

The prize question was a project in the interface between science and society. From 2000-2009, the prize question was given out once a year at the Annual General Meeting and announced in the press. There were virtually no formal restrictions. Everyone from anywhere in the world could participate.
Jurors selected the three prize-winning entries.

The first prize question was "What is inside us that causes us pain?" The members of the Young Academy expected on getting about fifty replies but actually received nearly five hundred. Submissions included stories, essays, poems, pictures, sculptures, media art works, and even musical compositions. Participants from Germany and other European countries ranged in age from seven to seventy-five. The best entries were published in catalogues. Further information on the annual prize questions is available on our German homepage.

“Who is having a crisis?" (2009)

“What kind space does thinking need?" (2008)

“What are we dreaming about?" (2007)

“Who faces a choice?" (2006)

“Where does time go?" (2005)

“What language does Europe speak?” (2004)

“What is it in animals that looks at us?" (2003)

“What do we want to know?” (2002)

“What is it inside us that causes us pain?" (2001)