Research projects

In 2002, the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities WIN-Kolleg its WIN-Kolleg with financial support from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MWK) of Baden-Württemberg. It is part of the Young Academy | HAdW. The goal is to support outstanding young researchers by funding interdisciplinary working groups. The Academy also promotes networking with outstanding researchers in the state, thereby helping to foster a sense of connection and identification among the fellows with Baden-Württemberg as a center of research. In WIN-Kolleg , members of the Young Academy are directly integrated into the Academy’s program WIN-Kolleg an extended period and participate in shaping it. 

In the WIN-Kolleg’s working groups, the funded researchers experience early in their careers how fruitful it is to engage with other disciplines and collaborate across disciplinary boundaries. A key feature of the WIN-Kolleg’s design is that the groups work very independently, thereby acquiring skills that are essential for appointment to a full professorship. To date, 32 projects across seven research priorities have been successfully completed, and six additional projects across two research priorities are currently being funded.