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News Science as Europe’s Fifth Fundamental Freedom: Joint Statement by the Leopoldina, the ERC and Four European Academies ▸
Science and innovation are the foundation of Europe’s prosperity, competitiveness and resilience in the face of global and internal challenges. To…
News Annual Assembly Explores Autonomy in Machines, Living Beings, Society and Art ▸
Autonomy plays a crucial role in many fields of research, whether in the social sciences, natural sciences, engineering or life sciences. Concepts of…
News Legal Scholar Charlotte Wendland Honoured with the ZukunftsWissen Prize ▸
What does autonomy mean in family law and the law of succession? How can private law maintain a balance between freedom and protection, particularly…
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Erin Schuman Honoured with the Kavli Prize ▸
The US neuroscientist Erin Schuman is to be awarded the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for her research on how neurons function. Schuman shares the…
Fabian Theis to Receive the BBAW Academy Prize 2026 ▸
How do diseases arise at the level of individual cells, and how can therapies in future be tailored more precisely to them? Using artificial…
Peter Piot receives the 2026 Virchow Prize ▸
50 years after the discovery of the Ebola virus, the Belgian-British physician and microbiologist Peter Piot, together with the Congolese…
Rohini Kuner has been awarded the 2026 Jung Prize for Medicine ▸
How does chronic pain develop? This is the subject of research by pharmacologist Rohini Kuner, Director of the Institute of Pharmacology at Heidelberg…
Maria Leptin Awarded the ALLEA Madame de Staël Prize 2025 ▸
The biologist Maria Leptin, Professor at the Institute of Genetics at the University of Cologne and President of the European Research Council (ERC),…
Gerd Faltings is honoured with the Abel Prize ▸
His ideas and work have had a profound impact on the field of arithmetic geometry. For this, the mathematician Gerd Faltings is now the first German…
Stefanie Dimmeler honoured with the Hector Science Award 2025 ▸
Biologist and biochemist Stefanie Dimmeler has been awarded the Hector Science Prize, worth 200,000 euros, by the Hector Foundation in Weinheim. Her…
Robert Koch Award for Rotem Sorek ▸
The geneticist and molecular biologist Rotem Sorek will be awarded the Robert Koch Award 2025. In a press release, the Robert Koch Foundation…
Balzan Prize for Omar M. Yaghi ▸
The chemistry expert Omar M. Yaghi has been awarded the renowned Balzan Prize for 2024. The International Balzan Prize Foundation honoured the…
Virchow Prize for Johan Rockström ▸
Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and internationally renowned for his research on sustainability…
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Lectures & Discussions 08. - 10. September 2026 Climate Change and Mental Health: Comparative Risk Pathways, Vulnerability, and Resilience ▸
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Exhibitions 24. - 25. September 2026 Autonomy ▸
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Lectures & Discussions 29. - 30. Oktober 2026 The Interconnectedness of Climate Change and Health:Approaches from China and Germany ▸
Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Interconnectedness of Climate Change and Health:Approaches from China and Germany
