Statements of the Max Planck Society

Scientific research has a responsiblity towards our society

The Max Planck Society regularly takes a position – often together with other scientific organizations – on select issues concerning research policy: for example, research promotion in Germany and Europe, developments in individual research fields or specific topics in various specialist fields.

Sustainable strategies against the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany in winter 2021/2022

November 11, 2021
Priesemann, V. et al, Sustainable strategies against the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany in winter 2021/2022, position paper of 11/11/2021. more
Together we can do it: Each individual contribution protects health, society, and the economy

Together we can do it: Each individual contribution protects health, society, and the economy

September 24, 2020
Corona Mathematics Research Policy
A statement by the presidents of the non-university research organizations on the COVID-19 epidemic based on mathematical analyses of the data situation more
Strategies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic

Strategies to contain the COVID-19 pandemic

April 30, 2020
A statement by the presidents of the non-university research organizations based on mathematical analyses of the data situation more

Statement by the President on the provisional agreement on the EU budget

November 13, 2020
Research Policy
European research funding – an important step in the right direction more

Ten principles for freedom of science

To mark the 70th anniversary of the German constitution ‒ known as the Basic Law ‒ the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany has drafted a Memorandum which spells out a voluntary commitment in the form of Ten Principles for Freedom of Science. more

Letter to Orbán - Allianz

July 04, 2019
The Alliance of Science Organisations has written an open letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán. The reason for this is a new law which, as part of a reform of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, provides for its restructuring and the outsourcing of its institutes in the form of a network. more

Science is international

February 03, 2017
The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany is concerned about the immigration ban issued by US President Donald Trump on 27 January 2017. It sees it as "a sweeping discrimination against human beings on the basis of their ethnicity and consequently an act of aggression on the fundamental values of science". more

 

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