From 9 to 11 October, the Academia Europaea welcomes its members to its annual meeting in Munich, Bavaria.#

We invite you to experience this three-day event from 9-11 October. The days will be filled with activities and a striking series of presentations by global and European experts on topics ranging across the intellectual spectrum of the Academy itself. The classes of Humanities, Social Sciences, Exact Sciences and Life Sciences will meet separately on 9 October and then in an academy-wide plenary on 10-11 October.

New members will be especially welcome and will be inducted on the evening of 10 October.

Munich awaits you!#

Donald B. Dingwell, Academic Director of the Academia Europaea Munich Knowledge Hub
Chair – Programme Commitee
Building Bridges 2023

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Programme#

Monday 9th October#

09:00 am - 05:00 pm:

Class Meetings#

In addition to the main plenary programme (10 – 11th October), there will be parallel CLASS Sessions held on 9th October. All members are welcome to these sessions:

• Class A1 – Humanities
  • Programme of the History and archaeology section

• Class A2 – Social and Societal Sciences – preliminary class programme
  Download the preliminary class programme

• Class B – Exact Sciences
  • Programme of the Informatics section

• Class C – Life Sciences

09:30 am - 04:45 pm: YAE Annual General Meeting

05:00 pm - 06:30 pm: Annual Business Meeting

Tuesday 10th October: Main conference#

• Erasmus medal to Jean-Pierre Changeux

• Sydney Brenner medal to Eugene Yeo

• Adam Kondorosi award to Michael Udvardi

Wednesday 11th October: Main conference#

Social Programme#

The following guided tours are possible on 9 and 10 October:

Tour 1: 9 October at 3:15pm

Guided tour through the Deutsches Museum

The “Deutsches Museum” is an excellent place for imparting scientific and technical education and for a constructive dialogue between science and society. Founded in 1903, it was one of the first and, with 66,000 square meters of exhibition space, is the largest science and technology museum in the world. Its unique collection of original exhibits makes the “Deutsches Museum” a leading international location for technical and scientific culture.

This guided tour gives an overview of several sections and the highlights in the museum.

Duration: 1,5
Meeting Point: Entrance of the “Deutsches Museum” Museumsinsel 1, 80538 München
Costs: 15€ per person (tickets must be purchased on site

Tour 2: 10 October at 10:30 am

Guided tour through the Alte Pinakothek

»Milestones of European Painting« – In a unique concentration of artworks, the ALTE PINAKOTHEK presents the development of art from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and the Baroque up to the end of the Rococo period. The collection comprises more than 700 artworks from the glittering epochs of German, Flemish, Netherlandish, French, Italian and Spanish painting. Leo von Klenze’s neoclassical building (completed in 1836), groundbreaking for European museum architecture at the time, provides the setting for this treasure trove of occidental art.

Duration: 1,5 hours
Meeting Point: Entrance of the “alte Pinakothek” Barerstrasse 27, 80333 München
Costs: 7€ per person (tickets must be purchased on site)


Tour 3: 10 October at 2:00 pm

Exclusive city tour through the old town of Munich by “Weis(s)er Stadtvogel München”.

The route is spontaneously adapted to the respective local conditions by the city guide. A possible selection: Marienplatz - Alter Peter - Viktualienmarkt - Alter Hof - Dallmayr - Hofbräuhaus - Cathedral - Residence - Odeonsplatz.

An entertaining and not merely historical tour.

Meeting Point: Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 München
Duration: 1,5 to 2 hours

Reservations must be made by 4 September at the following address ae-munich-hub@min.uni-muenchen.de, stating the number of people and the desired tours (Tour 1/ Tour 2/ Tour 3).

Speakers#

• Ethem Alpaydin (MAE), Özyegin University, Istanbul Turkey
• Dieter Braun LMU München
• Horst Bredekamp (MAE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Exzellenzcluster Matters of Activity
• Scott Bremer (YAE) Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE): Climate section
• Jean-Pierre Changeux (MAE), College de France & Institut Pasteur
• Nili Cohen, Tel-Aviv University; Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
• Timothy Crane (MAE), Central European University, Vienna
• Máté Csanád (YAE), Eötvös Loránd University
• Donald B. Dingwell (MAE), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universtität Muenchen
• Ray Dixon (MAE), Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK
• Pascal Engel (MAE), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale
• András Falus (MAE), Semmelweis University, Budapest
• Arnau Folch, Geociencias Barcelona (GEO3BCN-CSIC), Spain
• Jeffrey Gordon, Dr. Robert J Glaser Distinguished University Professor and Director, Edison Family Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Balázs Gulyás (MAE), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Imperial College London - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Hungarian Research Network (HUN-REN), Budapest, Hungary
• Tibor Hartel (MAE), Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Peter Hegyi (MAE), Centre for Translational Medicine, Semmelweis University; National Biomedical Foundation
• Kevin Heng, Faculty of Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich
• Corinne L. Hofman (MAE), Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
• Poul Holm (MAE), Professor of History, Trinity College Dublin
• Dirk Inzé (MAE), VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology
• Johanna Ivaska (MAE), Turku Bioscience Center, University of Turku
• Hans Joas (MAE), Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of Chicago
• Renaud Jolivet (YAE), Maastricht University
• Martin Kahanec (MAE), Central European University and CELSI
• Jürgen Kocka (MAE), Social Science Research Centre, Berlin; Free University of Berlin
• Éva Kondorosi (MAE), Biological Research Centre, Szeged
• Aditi Lahiri (MAE), University of Oxford
• Yan Lavallée (MAE), Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
• Gabi Lombardo, (YAE), European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities
• Genoveva Martí (MAE), ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona
• Marja Makarow (MAE), University of Helsinki
• Seamus Martin (MAE), Dept. of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
• Liviu Matei (MAE), King’s College London
• Louise McNally, (MAE) Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Béla Merkely (MAE), Rector of Semmelweis University; Director and Chair of the Heart and Vascular Center of Semmelweis University
• Helga NowotnyMember (MAE), Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich
• Paolo Papale (MAE), INGV – Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Pisa, Italy
• Stephan Parmentier (MAE), KU Leuven, Belgium
• Ole Petersen (MAE), Cardiff University
• Liliane Schoofs (MAE), KULeuven
• Mona Simion (YAE), Cogito Epistemology Research Centre, University of Glasgow
• Katalin Solymosi, Department of Plant Anatomy, Institute of Biology, Eötvös Loránd University; Budapest
• Moniek Tromp (YAE), Zernike Insititute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen
• Michael Udvardi, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Australia
• Peter Wagner, Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA); University of Central Asia
• Verena Winiwarter (MAE), Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Björn Wittrock (MAE)
• Eugene Yeo, UC San Diego
• Marc Yeste (YAE) University of Girona (Spain)

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