History

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"An Academy of a new kind"

“Shortly before Christmas 2004 the Members of the Hamburg Parliament voted for the establishment of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. With the announcement in the Official Gazette on 28 December  2004, the Academy was founded. A decade-long phase of preparations and efforts by many people to create an Academy of Sciences in Northern Germany was finally successful. The Academy was to pursue interdisciplinary investigation of topics of fundamental scientific and societal importance, to promote dialogue between academia, public debate, and political advices, to offer an independent forum for topics relevant to the future and so to give science an institutional voice in the metropolitan region of Hamburg. Furthermore, the Academy  would support and include junior researchers and provide a home for long-term scientific and scholarly projects. The Academy was not to be organised in classes but in Working Groups and so form an Academy of a new kind.”