BBAW and Leopoldina

Die Junge Akademie was founded in 2000 by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Today, Die Junge Akademie is still closely associated with its parent organisations and participates in their activities, such as the Salon Sophie Charlotte of the BBAW. Members of Die Junge Akademie are regularly invited as guests to meetings of the scientific classes of both academies and are involved in working groups or forums. Currently Hermine Mitter is a member of the BBAW working group on nutrition, health and prevention.

Networking with other young academies and colleges

Since 2023, Die Junge Akademie has been organising member meetings for German regional young academies and colleges together with the Junge Akademie | Mainz. The meetings serve to facilitate networking between young academics who are engaged in Young Academies and comparable institutions and who are working on topics that are relevant beyond institutional boundaries.

From 16 to 17 March 2023, members of six German academies and colleges met at the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature to discuss the academic system of tomorrow and exchange views on topics that are being worked on at the partner institutions.

In 2023, members of Die Junge Akademie, the Junge Akademie | Mainz, the Junge Akademie at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Young Forum of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Young Academy Fellows of the Hamburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Young Forum of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities were involved.

In October 2024, the next national networking meeting will take place on the premises of the Leopoldina in Halle.

Membership in advisory bodies

The members of die Junge Akademie not only express their interdisciplinary perspectives on current scientific or socially relevant topics in statements and contributions to debates. Some of them are also active in scientific policy advice:

Paulina Starski is a member of the "Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine", a joint commission of the Federal Ministries of Health, Justice and Family Affairs.

Isabel Schellinger is a member of the interdisciplinary "Forum Zukunftsstrategie", which advises the Federal Ministry of Research and Education on the implementation and further development of the "Zukunftsstrategie Forschung und Innovation". She is also an expert in the Wissenschaftsrat's (Science Council) working group "Professional development of medicine with special consideration of non-clinical-practical subjects".

Linus Mattauch is a member of the working group, commissioned by the European Union, on the Science Advise Mechanism (SAM/SAPEA) on Food Consumption.

Lara Keuck is a member of the working group, mandated by the European Union, on Science Advise Mechanism (SAM/SAPEA) on Strategy to involve more early- and midcareer researchers (EMCRs).

Stiftungen (Foundations)

Bodo von Borries Foundation

Since 3 August 2022, the Bodo von Borries Foundation has been granting 150,000 euros in funding to die Junge Akademie. Over a period of seven years, projects can be funded in which physicists are significantly involved in the work and which deal with topics that have a significant scientific connection to physics.

Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft

Die Junge Akademie has been cooperating with the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft since 2024. A joint series of events is planned for 2024. More information to follow.

When die Junge Akademie was founded in 2000, it was the first of its kind. Since then, there has been movement in the international landscape of academies. Die Junge Akademie has served as a role model for the founding of young academies in other countries and at an international level, providing advice and support during the start-up phase. Today, numerous Young Academies and founding initiatives exist around the world.

Die Junge Akademie co-operates with many of the newly established Young Academies worldwide on a thematic and project-related basis. There is a particularly close co-operation within Europe - here also with the science policy claim to formulate perspectives of young academics on the common European research area.

Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Young Academies

ENYA (European Network of Young Academies)

Die Junge Akademie is actively involved in the European Network of Young Academies ENYA. The first annual meeting of the Young Academies Network took place in 2018. The members exchange views on strategic topics such as internationalisation, excellence and current issues. They have launched a joint initiative on Scholars at risk and create synergies in their collaboration.

In 2024, die Junge Akademie and the Global Young Academy will jointly organise the ENYA network meeting on the theme of "Young Academy Collaboration in a Dynamic Geopolitical Landscape". Further information on the European Young Academies Meeting can be found here.

With the Brussels Charter for Young Academy Member Exchange, European young academies commit themselves to promoting member exchange and transnational encounters. Signatory academies declare their willingness to put members of other young academies in contact with their own members, to promote their visits as guest researchers and to enable them to participate in academy activities and events.

In 2024, the European Young Academies published the Stockholm Charter for Academic Freedom. Against the backdrop of economic and political uncertainties and challenges, the signatory academies are taking a stand for the freedom of academic teaching and research and the dissemination of academic knowledge.

YASAS (Young Academies Science Advice Structure)

Together with members of the European Network of Young Academies ENYA, die Junge Akademie initiated the creation of the Young Academies Science Advice Structure (YASAS) for scientific policy advice at European level in December 2020. Through YASAS, it is now possible to participate in European science-based advice, take part in calls for proposals and provide the European Commission with experts from its own ranks.

Currently Linus Mattauch is the representative of die Junge Akademie in YASAS.

ALLEA (All European Academies)

On 3 June 2020, die Junge Akademie became the first representative of the younger generation to be elected as a member of ALLEA (All European Academies). Founded in 1994, the association of scientific academies has over 50 members in more than 40 countries in the Council of Europe region. As an independent organisation, it is committed to interdisciplinary, international and free science. With its network of outstanding academics, which is unique in Europe, it offers science-based advice for politics and society beyond national borders.

With its ALLEA membership, die Junge Akademie aims to help strengthen the European scientific area and promote a common, free and independent scientific system. It would also like to contribute the perspectives of the younger generation of young scientists to the international scientific and science policy dialogue. In a wide range of collaborations with other European academies, it aims to raise awareness of the importance of science as a cornerstone of Europe's future. By joining ALLEA, die Junge Akademie can also serve as a blueprint for other young academies in Europe.

Lara Keuck is member of the ALLEA board.

Gisela Kopp is a member of the Working Group European Research Area.

Die Junge Akademie has signed the "Statement on Threats to Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration in the United States" (April 2025).

At the initiative of die Junge Akademie, together with the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) as well as other partners, the Globaly Young Academy and the Arab-German Young Academy were founded. In addition, the Junge Akademie maintains a close relationship with the Young Academy Israel, which is expressed in regular bilateral exchange meetings.

AcadeMIX: Exchange format with Israel Young Academy

For many years, die Junge Akademie has been networking with the Israeli Young Academy on an institutional, thematic and project-related basis - for example through an innovative event format:

AcadeMIX is a unique meeting format that aims to promote interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary collaboration between participating academics from Israel and Germany. AcadeMIX is a joint project of the Israel Young Academy and die Junge Akademie and is funded by the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development. The events take place alternately in Israel and Germany.

Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)

The central aim of the AGYA is to strengthen cooperation between excellent young Arab and German researchers. In this way, it also makes a contribution to overcoming the current challenges, which are particularly evident in the current political changes in the Arab world.
(Sponsor on the German side: BBAW)

Global Young Academy (GYA)

The aim of the GYA is to get involved in issues of global importance. To this end, it organises its own conferences, working groups and projects. The GYA also promotes the founding of national Young Academies. Its members come from over 50 countries on all continents.
(Institutional host: German National Academy of Science Leopoldina)

Young Network TransEurope (YNT)

Die Junge Akademie and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), together with a number of partner institutions, are publishing the manifesto "Reclaiming Europe". The manifesto outlines the role and social responsibility of the sciences and humanities in relation to a democratic and united Europe, in particular with regard to the war of aggression against Ukraine and its consequences. The signatories of the manifesto are in favour of increased scientific exchange with Eastern European countries and want to create a platform for perspectives from and on Eastern Europe with the "Young Network TransEurope". The network is primarily intended to strengthen the voices of excellent young academics.

From 13 to 15 October 2024, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, together with the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, organised a conference entitled ‘Reclaiming Europe’. The ‘Young Network TransEurope’ (YNT) officially began its work with the conference. The 17 founding members - excellent young researchers from a wide range of disciplines who live and work in several European countries - will jointly explore the diversity of European perspectives in future and thus contribute to public and political debates. The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra performed the ceremonial opening of the YNT at the beginning of the conference against the backdrop of the historic shipyard.