Membership (Zuwahl) to Die Junge Akademie — Year group 2027

Die Junge Akademie selects ten outstanding early-career researchers and artists each year for a five-year interdisciplinary membership. Members shape and lead projects and working groups at the intersection of science, art, politics and society and receive access to a cross-disciplinary network and concrete funding for their initiatives. The membership includes a research budget and a personal budget to implement projects and offers opportunities to contribute to scientific-policy and public debates. New members are admitted following a two-stage selection process and are formally inducted in the summer of the admission year.

Interdisciplinary network and exchange; ability to lead and participate in projects and working groups; a research budget and a personal budget to implement projects; visibility and opportunities to engage in science-society-policy dialogue.

Outstanding young researchers and artists with a completed doctorate or an equivalent artistic qualification; the doctorate or qualification should in general be at least three and no more than seven years prior to the application deadline (parental, caregiving and illness-related career interruptions are taken into account).

Two-stage selection with document review followed by invitations to interviews in Berlin (interviews in February 2027). new members admitted in summer 2027.