Home
Shortlist 2026
Fifteen teams have impressed the jury with their applications and are now in the pool from which the five teams to receive the “Best Research Environment 2026” award will be selected on June 27, 2026. This is the second time that Die Junge Akademie and the Volkswagen Foundation present this award.
-
-
Division of Applied Mechanics
TU Braunschweig
-
Department of Public Mental Health
Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH)
-
Junker Lab: Quantitative Developmental Biology
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association
-
Mind-Body-Emotion Group
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
-
Research Group "TWIST – Topological Whirls in Spintronics"
University of Duisburg-Essen
-
Research Group cBRAIN
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, LMU University Hospital Munich
-
Fuel Cell Team at ivb
TU Braunschweig
Niedersächsisches Forschungszentrum Fahrzeugtechnik (NFF) -
Division Society at OFFIS
OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology
-
Research Group "Translational Radiobiology"
Uniklinikum Erlangen
-
Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity
University of Oldenburg and Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)
-
Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour
University of Erfurt
-
Kompost Ensemble
Kompost Ensemble e. V.
-
Junior Research Group TRABBI
Justus Liebig University Giessen
-
Project „Empirical Gender Linguistics“
Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS)
-
Division of Therapy Sciences
Universitätsklinikum Münster
-
