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Research projects in the Academies' Program

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

Das Akademienprogramm ist das größte geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsprogramm Deutschlands und international einzigartig. Mit ihren langfristig angelegten Grundlagenforschungen leisten die Akademien einen unverzichtbaren Beitrag zur Dokumentation unseres kulturellen Gedächtnisses und zur Bildung nationaler wie transnationaler kultureller Identität. Seit 1979/80 wird das Akademienprogramm von Bund und Ländern gemeinsam finanziert. Koordiniert wird es von der Akademienunion. Im Akademienprogramm bearbeiten ca. 900 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter rund 130 Projekte in über 190 Arbeitsstellen. Mit den erarbeiteten Editionen, Wörterbüchern und Textcorpora schaffen die Akademien zentrale Wissensspeicher für die Zukunft, die der Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit – zunehmend auch digital – zur Verfügung stehen.

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Global Basic Lexicon (GloBasLex)


Das Projekt „Global Basic Lexicon“ (GloBasLex) erfasst und dokumentiert Grundwortschätze der Sprachen der Welt auf der Grundlage publizierter Wörterbücher. Ziel ist der Aufbau einer frei zugänglichen Datenbank paralleler Wortlisten für 1.000 Grundkonzepte, die nahezu alle hinreichend dokumentierten Sprachen weltweit abdeckt. Mit rund 1.500 Sprachen von allen Kontinenten entsteht eine der umfassendsten Ressourcen dieser Art. 

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Correspondence between theologians in the southwestern part of the empire in the early modern period (1550–1620)


The research center collects, catalogs, and edits letters written by leading theologians and church leaders during the period between the Peace of Augsburg and the Thirty Years' War.

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Sources on the religious and legal history of pre-modern Nepal


The aim is to digitally provide and edit an extensive corpus of documents and texts on the religious and legal history of pre-modern Nepal.

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Malala's comment


The project focuses on the development of a comprehensive philological and historical commentary on the chronicle, which can be analyzed, contextualized, and better understood through specific individual studies.

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Karl Jaspers Complete Edition (KJG)


In order to reveal and appreciate the broad context of Jaspers' thinking, as it emerges from his published works, his estate, and his numerous correspondences, a complete edition of his works is being compiled, which will make all relevant texts accessible in their context and available as a systematically interconnected whole.

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Commentary on fragments of Greek comedy (KomFrag)


The aim of the commentaries is, on the one hand, to elucidate the texts, which are generally difficult to understand, from all possible perspectives and, on the other hand, where possible, to attempt a reconstruction of the plays and to classify the authors in terms of literary history.

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ROCEEH


The aim of the research center is to reconstruct the spatio-temporal migratory movements of hominids between 3 million and 20,000 years ago.

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Buddhist stone inscriptions in China


The task of the research center, which was established in 2005, is to compile a complete and systematic documentation of these stone inscriptions, some of which have only been rediscovered in recent years.

The projects in the Academies' Program are coordinated by the Academies' Union. The Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities is an association of eight German science academies in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Göttingen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Leipzig, Mainz, and Munich.

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