German Academy of Science and Engineering
The German Academy of Science, founded in 2002 eV is a German Academy of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The private and non-profit association also occurs under the portmanteau acatech ( from academia and technology). The members of acatech want politicians to advise in technical science and technology policy issues. In addition, the Association shall represent the interests of technical sciences at home and abroad. The German Academy of Science and funded by institutional funding from the federal government and the 16 states, donations and project-related external funding.
History
The idea of a national interest group of technical sciences in the form of a scientific academy was established in the late 19th century. This idea was initiated in Germany mainly by the mechanical engineer Alois Riedler 1899, but could not prevail. Unlike in Sweden ( Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien - 1919), the U.S. ( National Academy of Engineering - 1964), United Kingdom ( Royal Academy of Engineering - 1976 ), Switzerland ( Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences - 1981) and other countries (see list of scientific academies ), there were in Germany until the end of the 20th century no parent advocacy of Science and Engineering.
On 21 November 1997, the inaugural meeting of the Association Council for Technical Sciences was held in Berlin. This working group was established at the initiative of the Berlin-Brandenburg and North Rhine -Westphalian Academies of Sciences. The founding meeting elected Günter Spur chairman of the board of the Convention. The initial 50 members came mostly from the classes of technical sciences or the natural sciences, engineering and economics of the two founding colleges.
Among the tasks that faced the Council for Engineering Sciences, to include promoting research and young technical scientists, the intensification of international cooperation and dialogue with the natural and social sciences, politics, economics and society about the role of advanced technologies.
To ask the council for engineering sciences for its further development on a broader basis, the President of the then seven German Academies of Science decided in April 2001 to bring together all national technical science activities at Academy level under the umbrella of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences. Thus, the Convention was established for Technical Sciences of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and seeks enrollment in the register and the profit after February 15, 2002. The Chairman of the Executive Board took over Joachim Milberg; his deputy was Franz Pischinger. In May 2003 these offices were renamed by an amendment to the President and Vice President. The Convention decided to use the short name AKAtech ', which is spelled converted into acatech against the backdrop of the international use shortly thereafter.
Since 2005, the acatech awards the journalists price point for award worthy reporting on science and technology.
On 23 October 2006, the Federal-State Commission ( BLK) decided acatech be included in the joint institutional funding from the federal and state governments. On 23 April 2007, the BLK finally addressed the recommendation to the Government of the Federal and State Governments to make " an appropriate adjustment to the framework agreement in research funding". The rationale for this decision, the BLK stressed that the technical sciences are an important pillar in the scientific landscape and praised the concept of acatech as a convincing basis for the work of an independent, national acting Academy of Science. Since 1 January 2008, renamed as acatech acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering.