Participating Academies
AGATE serves to map research projects and outcomes from the academies' long-term research programme. In addition to the eight academies of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, AGATE currently also includes projects from Switzerland. The following list provides an introduction to all the academies participating in AGATE. Further information on the academies can be found on detailed pages, such as information on current and completed research projects. The full-text search allows truncation by setting an asterisk ('*') in combination with at least three characters.
Academy, since 1759
Information
Currently, ten academies are participating in AGATE. In addition to collecting research projects and their resulting resources, AGATE also records detailed information on each participating academy, enabling, for example, filtering by location.
- Acronym
- BAdW
- Founding Year
- 1759
- Academy Website
- https://www.badw.de/
- Location
- Research Projects
- 22 running Projects
- 22 completed Projects
The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, founded in 1759, is the largest state academy in Germany. The Academy has been committed to its tasks as a learned society, non-university research institution and place of lively scientific dialogue with society and politics for more than 250 years. The focus of its work is on long-term projects that provide the basis for further research and safeguard cultural heritage. The BAdW includes the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, the Walther-Meissner-Institute for Low Temperature Research, the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation and the Committee for Bavarian Regional History. It promotes excellent young scientists in its Young Academy.