The German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) is an advisory body to the German Federal Government and the federal state governments. It makes recommendations on the development of science, research, and the universities, as well as on the competitiveness of German science. These recommendations involve both quantitative and financial considerations, as well as their implementation. Funding is provided by the federal and state governments.[1]
In the recent past, the German Council of Science and Humanities expressed its views in its statements, recommendations, and position papers on various topics, including university construction (2022),[2][3] the transformation of scientific publishing to Open Access (2022),[4][5] and science communication (2021).[6][7] In 2020, it published the position paper "Impulses from the COVID-19 Crisis for the Further Development of the Science System in Germany,"[8] which described ten challenges for research to be crisis-proof.[9] In 2019, it called for more funds for peace and conflict studies.[10][11] In the same year (2019), it issued a statement on the further development of university medicine in North Rhine-Westphalia.[12] In 2016, the Council produced a position paper on knowledge and technology transfer.[13] In 2015, in a position paper titled "Major Societal Challenges" internationally referred to as societal challenges or grand challenges,[14] it called for the "integration and flexible recombination of knowledge on ecological, technological, social, cultural, and economic aspects of a transformation process."[15]
Presidents
Presidents (Vorsitzender) of the organization:[16]
↑ Empfehlungen zur Transformation des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens zu Open Access auf der wissenschaftsrat.de (PDF; 1MB), January 2022, retrieved 10 February 2022.
Hans-Peter Dürr was a German physicist. He worked on nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, and he advocated responsible scientific and energy policies. In 1987, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "his profound critique of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and his work to convert high technology to peaceful uses."
The Medical University of Graz is a medical university in Austria that has been in existence since January 1, 2004, and has been a part of the Karl-Franzens University of Graz as a medical faculty since 1863.
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The Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies is a research institute hosted by Dresden University of Technology and devoted to the comparative analysis of dictatorships. The institute focusses particularly on the structures of Nazism and Communism as well as on the presuppositions and consequences of the two ideological dictatorships. The institute is named after the German-American philosopher and political scientist Hannah Arendt, whose magnum opus The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) is considered across disciplines as one of the most influential works of the 20th century and continues to shape in particular scholarly discussions of totalitarian systems of political domination.
Katharina Fegebank is a German politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens, who has served as Second Mayor of Hamburg and Senator for Science, Research and Equality since 2015. She briefly served as acting First Mayor in March 2018.
IU International University of Applied Sciences is a private for-profit University of Applied Sciences based in Erfurt, Germany.
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Nico Marquardt is a German politician, non-executive director and consultant. At the age of 13, he became internationally known with his astronomy research work about the near-Earth asteroid 99942 Apophis.
Wolfram Wette is a German military historian and peace researcher. He is an author or editor of over 40 books on the history of Nazi Germany, including the seminal Germany and the Second World War series from the German Military History Research Office (MGFA).
Darmstädter Signal is an independent organization opposing weapons of mass destruction and the primary use of military means to solve conflicts. It was founded in 1983 as a group of officers, soldiers and civil Army employees of the German Bundeswehr. According to its mission statement, the organization respects the German Army's role-defending the country within the existing legal framework, but strives to give critical feedback about the Army's mission and alternative non-military concepts of conflict resolution. The Darmstädter Signal sees the central task of the Bundeswehr in defence of freedom and democracy as basic principles of the country.
Paul Ziemiak is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2017 federal election. In addition to his parliamentary work, he has been serving as the Secretary General of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2022, under the leadership of chairman Hendrik Wüst.
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus is a German chemist.
Heike Fleßner was a German educationalist and professor, whose work focused on social education and social work. She was a Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg from 1996 until her retirement in 2009. Her scientific work focuses on analytics and conceptual developments in the field of gender- and diversity-conscious social education. For many years, Fleßner was involved in social policy and the institutional anchoring of public toddler care and early childhood education.
Ursula Männle is a German Social sciences academic and politician (CSU). She served between 1983 and 1994 as a member of the Bundestag. More recently, between 2000 and 2013, she was a member of the Bavarian Landtag, chairing an important parliamentary committee and, till 2009, chairing the women's working group in the Landtag.
Kerstin Griese is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2000.
The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) (German: Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa), headquartered in Leipzig, is an interdisciplinary, internationally-oriented research institute of Eastern and Central Europe. Its main focus lies on the scientific study of the history and culture of the region bounded by the Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Adriatic Sea from the Early Middle Ages to the present in a comparative perspective. The institute aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of the current political, economic and social developments in the countries, societies and cultures of Eastern Europe, especially the countries of East Central Europe. It is a member of the Leibniz Association.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the Federal Council. She was elected on 7 December 2022, the first ever elected member from the Canton of Jura.
"Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt" is a 1979 Christian hymn with words in German by Hans-Jürgen Netz and a melody by Christoph Lehmann. This Neues Geistliches Lied song has appeared in the German Protestant and Catholic hymnals. It is a preferred song for conventions such as Kirchentag.
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