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Network within Germany

Setting the pace together

Since its founding in 2020, Die Junge Akademie has been an inspiration for numerous young academies and similar institutions.

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.

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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.

  • Networking events

  • 2023
    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.

  • 2024
    In October 2024, another national networking meeting took place at the Leopoldina in Halle.

  • 2025
    At the end of September 2025, the Junge Akademie at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities | HAdW will host a meeting in Heidelberg.

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Opportunities and possibilities: 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 and contribute in various forms and formats both nationally and internationally:

National (in alphabetical order)

Julia Gurol-Haller is a member of the advisory board for the BBAW's 2025|2026 annual theme ‘Resolving Conflicts!’.

Linus Mattauch is a member of the Science Advice Mechanism (SAM/SAPEA) working group on food consumption.

Hermine Mitter is a member of the BBAW working group on nutrition, health and prevention.

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Foundations as drivers of change

Bodo-von-Borries-Stiftung
Since 3 August 2022, the Bodo von Borries Foundation has been supporting Die Junge Akademie with a grant of €150,000. Over a period of seven years, funding will be available for projects in which physicists play a key role and which deal with topics that have a significant scientific connection to physics. The foundation was established in 1992 by Hedwig von Borries in memory of her husband, Bodo von Borries, who died prematurely. From the early 1930s until his death in 1956, Bodo von Borries was one of the pioneers and trailblazers of electron microscopy. Given that his research also benefited from the support of the Nazi regime, the foundation decided in 2025 to rethink its funding activities.

Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft
Die Junge Akademie has been cooperating with the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft since 2024. "Please Irritate Me" is a joint series of events organized by Die Junge Akademie and the Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft.