Young Academy

The title of this article is ambiguous. A description of the Young Academy in Bavaria can be found under Catholic Academy in Bavaria

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The Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina are supported by the two oldest scientific academies in Germany. It is an interdisciplinary research platform for young scientists.

Its members are young scientists and artists from various disciplines from German-speaking countries who are dedicated to interdisciplinary discourse. Ten members are elected for five years each year.

When it was founded in 2000, the Junge Akademie was the first institution in the world to promote young academics on a national level. In the meantime, numerous other national academies of young scientists have been founded based on their model.

tasks and goals

According to its statute, the Junge Akademie promotes the next generation of scientists. Its two primary tasks are “maintaining the interdisciplinary discourse among outstanding young scientists and promoting initiatives at the interface between science and society”.

organization

The office of the Junge Akademie is located at the headquarters of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

The Junge Akademie is represented by three organs: the general assembly ( plenum ), the presidium and the council.

The office is based in Berlin. It is located at the headquarters of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences on Gendarmenmarkt . The office provides practical support in the content-related work of the academy members and takes on administrative and organizational tasks. After the end of the project phase (2011), the Young Academy remained sponsored by the two parent academies. Since then, it has been permanently anchored in the Leopoldina's budget, but completely independent in terms of content. Together with the Leopoldina, it is entered in the Stendal register of associations.

Members and admission procedure

The Junge Akademie has a constant 50 members. They come from all over German-speaking countries and are elected for a period of five years. Re-election is not possible. Ten members leave every year. In return, the academy accepts ten young scientists and artists. Each of the members elected for five years has access to a smaller personal budget and to the general central research budget, which can be used to implement joint scientific projects such as panel discussions, workshops or symposia.

Requirements for membership are an outstanding doctorate and at least one other excellent scientific work. The doctorate should not be more than three to seven years ago at the time of the election. Members of the BBAW, the Leopoldina and the Junge Akademie can propose new members. In addition, the Junge Akademie is looking for new members through tenders. Own applications are also possible.

The election of the new members takes place annually alternately by the general assembly of the Junge Akademie on the one hand and by the two supporting academies on the other. The average age of the members is 35 years and the gender distribution is almost equal without quotas. The distribution of subjects between the natural sciences and the humanities and social sciences is also balanced. The areas of art and architecture are also represented.

Bureau

The academy is run by a presidium. It consists of the speaker and four other members of the Junge Akademie. The speaker has guest status on the governing bodies of the two supporting academies BBAW and Leopoldina. The plenum of members elects the Presidium at its spring meeting for a one-year term. This begins after the summer assembly.

advice

The council, founded in 2002, accompanies the work of the Junge Akademie in terms of content. It currently (2020) has six members and supports the Junge Akademie as an advisory and funding body. The council consists of “high-ranking personalities from science, business, culture and the media”. They are appointed for three years each and should “accompany the Junge Akademie project as critical observers and advisors, give, encourage or inquire about ideas and critical suggestions for individual projects” and support projects at the interfaces between science and politics, business and culture.

Budget and Financing

The Junge Akademie has been institutionalized since 2011 and has since been anchored in the Leopoldina's budget permanently and indefinitely. The annual budget is made up of the one-time but flexible research budget for each member and expenses for activities within the framework of the Junge Akademie. Today, 90 percent of the Young Academy is financially supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Five percent of the funding comes from the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

activities

The Junge Akademie is free to choose its forms of work and places of work. This means that, unlike in many national academies, the members of the Junge Akademie do not receive any instructions. You decide for yourself which interdisciplinary projects are on the agenda. Its members meet three times a year in plenary to exchange views on their current research projects and to decide on joint projects and publications. There is also an annual ideas workshop in which members develop new initiatives and projects. The content work is often done in working groups.

Working groups

The working groups (AGs) are set up by the plenum of the Junge Akademie at the suggestion of the members to promote interdisciplinary cooperation. They are open to all members depending on their interests. Together they carry out studies, publish their research results and organize larger symposia and cultural events.

Since the Junge Akademie was founded, there have been more than 40 of these interdisciplinary associations. In addition to research topics, they also deal with questions of general social relevance, especially in the areas of education and science policy.

International contacts

Outside of Germany there are now numerous other national academies for young scientists, including in Belgium (Flanders), Denmark, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden and South Africa. The Young Academy often served as a model. For example, the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences founded its Jonge Academy based on the German model. The Junge Akademie was also instrumental in founding the Global Young Academy . The Global Young Academy has had its office in the BBAW building since October 2011.

Publications

The Junge Akademie publishes the "Junge Akademie Magazin" at regular intervals, which is also available online. Each issue is dedicated to a specific dossier topic that is examined from the perspective of different scientific disciplines. Since the editorial team consists of members of the Junge Akademie and the line-up changes regularly, new formats are constantly emerging: The magazine was first published as a poster magazine in autumn 2019. Numerous other publications resulted from the work of the Junge Akademie.

history

The Young Academy is a joint project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW) and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina. It arose from the criticism of its founders "of the grievances in the German science system, which offers young academics little opportunity to develop freely and to help shape the system."

The impetus for founding the world's first youth academy gave Paul Baltes , former director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development . In 1996 he presented his idea to the then President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Dieter Simon . The latter revised the draft and submitted it in the same year to the academy's own commission, which prepared the celebrations to mark the 300th anniversary of the BBAW. The festival committee then recommended to the plenum "to take up the suggestion of Paul B. Baltes and Dieter Simon to found an academy for highly talented young academics and to bring the new institution into being in the anniversary year with the election of the first members". At its meeting on February 12, 1999, the plenary finally decided on the founding concept for “The Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences”, but suggested that the idea be implemented together with the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, with which a close medium term Cooperation was planned. The two presidents then held talks that led to the Leopoldina's decision to participate in the Junge Akademie before the summer of 1999 and thus to initiate the first joint project within the framework of the cooperation to be established.

The two parent institutions founded the Junge Akademie on June 30, 2000 for an initial five years as a project within the BBAW. The then Federal Education Minister Edelgard Bulmahn took over the patronage . Funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Volkswagen Foundation (until 2005, then extended until 2008) ensured the financing of the project phase.

After an evaluation in 2005 with a positive result, the Ministry of Education decided to continue funding for a further five years. The Ministry of Education then promised to continue funding until the end of 2010. In 2007 the Junge Akademie was re-evaluated. The final report of the expert commission entrusted with the investigation states that the Junge Akademie is "unique in Germany as an instrument for the institutional promotion of highly talented young academics and cannot be compared with initiatives by other German academies in the field of promoting young academics."

After a ten-year project phase, it was decided in 2010 to continue the project indefinitely. The Junge Akademie has not been a project since 2011, but has been anchored in the Leopoldina's budget as an institution. Since then, its budget has been borne by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as well as the State of Saxony-Anhalt and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Web link

• Homepage of the Junge Akademie
• Young Academy website for the anniversary year 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Verena Kemna (Deutschlandfunk): The Young Academy. Interdisciplinary discourse among young scientists . Accessed October 24, 2013.
2. ↑ UniGestalten project - ideas for the university of tomorrow : background information (PDF; 108 kB). Accessed October 23, 2013.
3. ^ The Young Academy: Office . Accessed October 21, 2013.
4. ↑ hbj: The man who prefers to tackle (PDF; 689 kB). In: DUZ - the independent university magazine of June 24, 2011. p. 30.
5. ↑ Tasks and forms of work - The Young Academy. Retrieved February 14, 2019 . 
6. ^ The Young Academy: Statute . Accessed October 23, 2013.
7. ^ The Young Academy: Membership . Accessed October 28, 2013.
8. ^ ^{A b c d} Monika Appmann, Ruth Bendels, Robert Wolf: The young academy . In: Austrian Science Council: Scientific career and participation. Paths and wrong ways ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB). Proceedings 2011. pp. 129–149. 
9. ↑ Die Junge Akademie: Presidium ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 22, 2013. 
10. ↑ The Young Academy: The Council of the Young Academy ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 22, 2013. 
11. ^ The Young Academy: Statute . Accessed October 22, 2013
12. ^ The Young Academy: Tasks and forms of work . Accessed February 8, 2017
13. ↑ Frederike Buhse, The Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina (ed.): The Young Academy . Berlin 2013. p. 4.
14. ^ The Young Academy: The AGs - diverse and eager to experiment . Accessed October 29, 2013.
15. ^ The Young Academy: Completed AGs . Accessed October 24, 2013.
16. ↑ Die Junge Akademie: WG Science Policy ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 29, 2013. 
17. ↑ jongeacademie.be: Young Academy of Belgium ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2013 
18. ↑ royalacademy.dk: Det Unge Akademi , accessed on September 6, 2013
19. ↑ dejongeakademie.nl: De Jonge Akademie , accessed on September 6, 2013
20. ↑ youngacademyofscotland.org.uk: The Young Academy of Scotland , accessed September 6, 2013
21. ↑ kva.se: Young Academy of Sweden , accessed September 6, 2013
22. ↑ assaf.co.za: SAYAS - South African Young Academy of Sciences ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2013 
23. ^ Günter Stock : Greetings for the ceremony for the Leibniztag 2007 . Printed in: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: Yearbook 2007 (PDF; 9.2 MB). Pp. 129-131. Accessed October 23, 2013.
24. ↑ Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities: Yearbook 2011 (PDF; 7.4 MB). Pp. 97-98. Accessed October 23, 2013.
25. ^ The Young Academy: Young Academy Magazine . Accessed October 24, 2013
26. ^ The Young Academy: Publications . Accessed October 24, 2013.
27. ^ The young academy: history . Accessed October 29, 2013.
28. ↑ Dieter Simon: Address on the occasion of the founding of the Junge Akademie on June 30, 2000 . Accessed October 23, 2013.
29. ↑ ^{a b} Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: The founding idea for The Young Academy (PDF; 59 kB). Accessed October 23, 2013.
30. ↑ https://www.diejungeakademie.de/ueber-die-akademie/geschichte/
31. ↑ Press release of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of June 30, 2000: "Young Academy" founded for young scientists. Bulmahn: "Create space for creative ideas and innovative research approaches" ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 19 kB). Accessed October 23, 2013 
32. ^ German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina: Shaping the future together . Accessed October 23, 2013.
33. ^ The Young Academy: Tasks and forms of work . Accessed October 23, 2013.