Research projects in the Academies' Program
It is Germany's largest research program in the humanities and social sciences and is unique internationally. With their long-term basic research, the academies make an indispensable contribution to documenting our cultural memory and shaping national and transnational cultural identity. Since 1979/80, the Academies Program has been jointly funded by the federal and state governments. In the Academies Program, approximately 900 employees work on around 130 projects (external link) in over 190 workplaces. With the editions, dictionaries, and text corpora they produce, the academies create central repositories of knowledge for the future, which are available to academia and the public—increasingly also in digital form.
Edition
Melanchthon-Briefwechsel (MBW)
dictionary
The German Legal Dictionary (DRW)
cultural studies
German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages (DI)
cultural studies
ALMA - Wissensnetze in der mittelalterlichen Romania
cultural studies
Hindu temple legends in South India
Edition
Bible glossaries as hidden cultural carriers
economics
Finanz- und Unternehmensforschung aus der Langfristperspektive
dictionary
Goethe Dictionary
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.