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• • Die Junge Akademie seeks new members: Application period for 2025 begins

    Outstanding young academics and artists can still apply for a five-year membership at Die Junge Akademie until 11 November 2024.

    Topics:

    • Press Release
    • selection

    date

    04.09.24

  • "Bridging the Gap": How scientific advice for environmental policy can succeed

    In the fall of 2023, members of Die Junge Akademie’s Research Group “Sustainability” held a round table discussion with 13 political decision-makers on how research on environmental issues influences their work and to what extent environmental policy reforms are guided by scientific findings.

    Topics:

    • Contribution to debate
    • dialogue
    • sustainability
    • Europe

    Linus Mattauch, Hermine Mitter, Leona Tenkhoff, Leonie Wenz

    Berlin 2024

  • Insights and outlooks: How does the network of European Young Academies ENYA work?

    Die Junge Akademie hosted the meeting of the European National Young Academies from May 22 to 23, 2024. Representatives from 22 institutions travelled to Berlin.

    Topics:

    • Blog
    • internationalisation
    • diversity
    • academic system

    date

    16.07.24

  • Leitlinien für unbefristete Stellen an Universitäten neben der Professur

    Mitgliedergruppe Universitäten der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz und Junge Akademie verabschieden gemeinsam „Leitlinien für unbefristete Stellen an Universitäten neben der Professur“

    Topics:

    • Press Release
    • higher education system
    • career development
    • university

    date

    24.06.24

  • Leitlinien für unbefristete Stellen an Universitäten neben der Professur

    Die Junge Akademie und die Mitgliedergruppe Universitäten der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz veröffentlichen gemeinsam die „Leitlinien für unbefristete Stellen an Universitäten neben der Professur“

    Topics:

    • career development
    • higher education system
    • university

    Gisela Kopp, Georg Krausch, Walter Rosenthal, Enrico Schleiff, Doris Segets, Anja Steinbeck, Timo de Wolff

    2024

  • Ten new members admitted to the Junge Akademie

    New perspectives and ideas for the next five years

    Topics:

    • Press Release
    • selection
    • membership
    • commitment

    date

    24.06.24

  • New Board of the Junge Akademie begins its term of office

    Die Junge Akademie's new five-member Board took office on 22 June

    Topics:

    • Press Release

    date

    24.06.24

  • AcadeMIX2024: A Resounding Success in Fostering Scientific Exchange

    The recently concluded AcadeMIX2024, held in Berlin from May 21-23, was a resounding success, serving as a testament to the power of interdisciplinary collaboration in academia.

    Topics:

    • Blog
    • internationalisation
    • diversity
    • academic system

    date

    12.06.24

  • Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize of the DFG for member of the Junge Akademie

    Ancient historian Christopher Degelmann honoured

    Topics:

    • Press Release
    • excellence
    • academic system
    • career development

    date

    04.06.24

  • Junge Akademie tandem elected to the board of the European academy association ALLEA

    Lara Keuck and Kerstin Maria Pahl part of the ten-person ALLEA Board from 1 June 2024

    Topics:

    • Press Release
    • Europe
    • politics
    • commitment

    date

    22.05.24

  • Young Academies' Call for Action: Reaffirming the Role of Fundamental Sciences

    Die Junge Akademie joins the call of 30 other international Young Academies and organisations that emphasise the importance of fundamental research in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

    Topics:

    • Statement
    • sustainability
    • academic system
    • innovation transfer

    2024

  • ALLEA Celebrates 30 Years of Promoting Academic Collaboration at General Assembly in Berlin

    Topics:

    • Press Release
    • Europe
    • science policy
    • commitment

    date

    06.05.24

  • Statement zur Novelle des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

    Kein Gesamtkonzept, keine flankierenden Maßnahmen: Gesetzesentwurf zur Novelle des WissZeitVG steigert weder Attraktivität noch Planbarkeit der wissenschaftlichen Karriere

    Topics:

    • Ad hoc statement
    • higher education system
    • science policy
    • Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz

    Gisela Kopp

    2024

  • Expedition Anthropocene

    As part of the "Expedition Anthropocene" project, six members of Die Junge Akademie travelled to Ecuador from 22 February to 9 March 2020. They have recorded their experiences and findings in a publication of the same name.

    Topics:

    • Book
    • climate crisis
    • sustainability
    • environment

    Miriam Akkermann, Martin-Immanuel Bittner, Christian Hof, Robert Kretschmer, Dirk Pflüger, Ricarda Winkelmann

    Berlin 2024

  • Young Network TransEurope: Call for founding members

    The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), the Junge Akademie and other European partners are calling on outstanding young scientists to apply to become founding members of the transnational and interdisciplinary Young Network TransEurope (YNT).

    Topics:

    • Blog
    • diversity
    • Europe
    • society

    date

    29.02.24

  • ALLEA General Assembly & European Young Academies Meeting 2024

    date

    12.02.24

  • Manifesto „Reclaiming Europe“

    Die Junge Akademie and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), together with partner institutions, publish the manifesto "Reclaiming Europe" on the social and political role and responsibilities of the sciences and humanities in relation to Eastern Europe.

    Topics:

    • Europe
    • internationalisation
    • society
    • diversity

    2024

  • Democracy and Science

    Under the title "Demokratie & Wissenschaft" ("Democracy and Science"), the JAM #30 deals with the connections and interaction between these pillars of society.

    Topics:

    • Magazine
    • dialogue
    • Demokratie
    • climate

    Andrea Binder, Christopher Degelmann, Anne Hemkendreis, Rona Kobel, Nadine Mengis, Senthuran Varatharajah

    Berlin 2024

  • Vom Lern-Muffel zum Lern-Ninja

    Mit dem Übergang zur Sekundarstufe beginnt für Kinder und Jugendliche die Notwendigkeit, selbstorganisiert zu lernen. Dieser Comic zeigt Kindern und Jugendlichen zwischen zehn und vierzehn Jahren, wie einfach das gelingen kann.

    Solveig Gresselmeyer

    2023

  • Internationalisierung im Fokus: Innenansichten aus dem deutschen Wissenschaftssystem

    Internationalisation, quo vadis? Members of the Research Group Internationalisation conducted focus group interviews with 17 stakeholders within the German academic landscape. The results of the qualitative analysis of these discussions are summarised in this contribution to the debate.

    Topics:

    • Contribution to debate
    • higher education system
    • internationalisation
    • migration

    Anna L. Ahlers, Jan Hennings, Fabian Schmidt

    Berlin 2023