Research Projects in Academies' Programme

The joint research program of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities serves to develop, preserve, and research our cultural heritage.

The Academies' Programme Germany's largest research programme in the humanities and social sciences and enjoys an outstanding international reputation. Through its long-term basic research projects, it makes a significant contribution to the cataloging, preservation, and scholarly analysis of key sources and artifacts of cultural heritage.

Editions, dictionaries, and text corpora serve as enduring knowledge resources of high academic value, which are increasingly being made available to researchers and the general public in digital form as well.

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dictionary

The German Legal Dictionary (DRW)


The research center is compiling a comprehensive dictionary of historical German and West Germanic legal language—from the beginning of written records in late antiquity through the early 19th century.

cultural studies

German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages (DI)


The mission of the research center is to catalog and publish annotated editions of Latin and German inscriptions from the Middle Ages and the early modern period up to the year 1650 in Baden-Württemberg.

cultural studies

ALMA - Networks of Knowledge in Medieval Romania


This interdisciplinary project examines how new vernacular knowledge networks emerged in the Romance-speaking cultural sphere of the Middle Ages, combining methods from textual criticism, historical linguistics, and the Semantic Web.

cultural studies

Hindu temple legends in South India


The project produces digital editions of the temple legends of the South Indian city of Kanchipuram and combines them with documentation on temple architecture, iconography, rituals, and oral traditions.

Edition

Bible glossaries as hidden cultural carriers


The Judaic-Romance project is a contribution to the Judeo-French linguistic and literary tradition, which is to be examined for the first time in an interdisciplinary manner in terms of its significance for cultural studies, linguistics, and the history of theology.

economics

Financial and Business Research from a Long-Term Perspective


An inter-academic research project aimed at creating a new database that will contribute to a better understanding of past, present, and future economic and social challenges.

dictionary

Goethe Dictionary


The Goethe Dictionary is an individual language dictionary that presents Goethe's entire vocabulary in alphabetical order.

The Academies’ Program is coordinated by the Academies’ Union, an association of eight German national academies of science with offices in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Göttingen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Mainz, and Munich. In this capacity, the Academies’ Union brings together the joint efforts of the academies and provides organizational and scientific support for the projects within the Academies’ Program. Within the framework of the Academies Program, approximately 900 employees are currently working on 130 projects at 198 research sites.

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