Berlin Scientific Society
The Berlin Scientific Society (BWG) is a German learned society that sees itself as an interdisciplinary representation of scientists from all scientific institutions in Berlin . It wants to promote the exchange of ideas and research results between them - across disciplines - in order to counteract the increasing specialization in the sciences.
The BWG was founded on December 18, 1973 by academics from the universities and educational institutions in what was then West Berlin - especially university teachers from the FU - after the full-time university had been replaced by the group university due to the demands of the student movement with the Berlin University Act 1969 .
In order to fulfill its self-imposed tasks, the BWG organizes lectures, seminars and conferences, guided tours through scientific institutions, deals with scientific topics of broader interest in interdisciplinary working groups, initiates and promotes research projects, the results of which are reported in yearbooks and on the Internet and takes part in the Public position on university policy issues. To promote the next generation of academics, the BWG awards a doctoral prize for outstanding research every year and the Erhard Höpfner Study Prize (financed by the Erhard Höpfner Foundation) for outstanding theses from universities and technical colleges.
Among its around 250 full members (as of early 2009), the BWG includes the presidents and vice-presidents of all Berlin universities as well as members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and other scientific research institutions in Berlin. Full members of the BWG can - upon written proposal from at least five members - become scientists “who contribute to scientific progress in their subject through outstanding publications or comparable achievements”, actively conduct scientific research and profess freedom of research and teaching . There are also associated members (young academics who “can be expected to meet the requirements for full membership in the foreseeable future based on their research achievements”), corresponding members (beginning of 2009: around 80; most of them are formerly in Berlin active scientists who have moved away), supporting members (beginning of 2009: around 50; mostly celebrities from politics and business who do not actively conduct scientific research themselves) and honorary members.
The founding chairman of the BWG was the economic and social historian Wolfram Fischer until 1981, and the laser doctor Hans-Peter Berlien has chaired the board since 2007 .
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- ↑ The faculties were replaced by departments, and the Rector was replaced by a seven-year president. In addition to the professors, the academic staff, the other staff and the student body were represented equally in the self-governing bodies of the FU. The Berlin University Law remained controversial, was amended in 1974 and replaced by a new State University Law in 1978.
- ↑ The lectures usually take place at noon in the Harnack House or in the evening in the Kaiserin Friedrich House.