Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg

53.5625979.9882Koordinaten: 53 ° 33 ' 45.35 "N, 9 ° 59' 17.52 " E The Academy of Sciences in Hamburg is one of the scientific academies in Germany with headquarters in the building of the University of Hamburg.

Your task is to serve in their own work and in collaboration with scientists and research institutions at home and abroad science. It has its headquarters in Hamburg and regular members in Hamburg, Schleswig -Holstein, Mecklenburg -Vorpommern and in justified individual cases in Bremen and Lower Saxony.

The Academy was founded in 2004 by law due to the citizenship of the city of Hamburg as a public corporation to life and founded by a nine-member founding committee in 2005. Seven scientists and 23 scientists have been appointed as the first full members, according to the Academy includes a complementary election (August 2011) 65 ordinary members.

First, long-term projects will commence in early 2009, the 15-year development of a corpus-based electronic dictionary German Sign Language ( DGS) - German. 2011 follows as the second long-term project in cooperation with the University of Rostock Moritz Schlick total output. Estate and correspondence.

The Academy of Sciences in Hamburg awarded every two years, with prize money of 100,000 euros Hamburger Science Award and is a member of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences. The current President since July 2013, the Technology Scientist Edwin Kreuzer.