The workshop "Hack the Middle East" is concerned with current possibilities of analysing large amounts of data from the Middle East or making them visually visible. In addition to concrete practical and political obstacles, research projects in languages such as Arabic, Persian and Urdu also face special technological challenges.

As networking institutions, museums around the world exchange knowledge about the objects they exhibit, preserve and research. Information is collected and stored in digital databases. What can we learn by researching this digital data? Using international examples from the past five years, Dr. Anne Luther provides an insight into the research, usage and visualisation of museum data and opens up new perspectives on objects and museum history.

The fifty members of the Junge Akademie gather thrice a year in alternating cities.

In 2021, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities will again open its doors, inviting the public to the "Salon Sophie Charlotte". The ten members of Die Junge Akademie who will be admitted in the summer of 2020 are taking part in the Salon with their own campaign.