The panel discussion will explore the question of academic freedom in Germany. What does it mean when more and more cost and benefit aspects of science come to the fore, when theoretical research and so-called orchid subjects are denied the right to exist? What are the conditions of scientists working in Germany and where are there (unwanted) boundaries and interventions? Where do we have to actively protect the freedom of science and what should we do about it?

Ten members of Die Junge Akademie will focus on topics such as corporate design or homepage design in science. The organizers of the workshop are Bernadett Weinzierl, Miriam Akkermann and Ulrike Endesfelder.

The fifty members of Die Junge Akademie gather thrice a year in alternating cities. In 2019 the spring plenum will take place in Halle (Saale). On of the superordinate academies - the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - will host the plenum.

As part of the RG Internationalisation, Jan Hennings and Sebastian Matzner are organizing a panel discussion on "Book Cultures". Together with guests Miloš Vec (Professor of European Law and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna and Permanent Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences) and Glenn Most (Professor of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Visiting Professor at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin), they discuss, among other things, to what extent the globalization of supply and visibility of scientific publishers causes changes in the sciences.

Members of Die Junge Akademie are organising an one-week "academy" for scholars of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Alumni and members of Die Junge Akademie get together for meeting each other and exchanging ideas.