Summer Academies
Quantum physics, artificial intelligence, climate change and sustainability or political protest culture: our scholarship holders deal with these and many other topics during the spring and summer academies. Whether within their own discipline or beyond, the academies guarantee scientific discussions at the highest level. The academies offer ideal conditions for developing your skills and gaining new perspectives, networking and expanding your contacts!
Academies give our scholarship holders the opportunity to engage with issues beyond the confines of their own studies. In doing so, they benefit from working with exceptional tutors. Each Summer Academy brings together around 100 scholarship holders for a period of one to two weeks. The objective is to broaden their horizons in both personal and academic terms and give them the courage to experiment – free from pressure and without the stress of examinations. This fact is reflected in their structure:
the Academies comprise various working groups which operate either with disciplinary focus or an interdisciplinary approach. While these groups may focus on separate topics, students also spend plenty of time together. Evening lectures from tutors afford all participants insights into the work carried out by the other groups. The Academies also include plenty of opportunities to spend time together during joint activities, breaks and the evening programme.
One to two weeks full of engagement and discussion, academic exchange and – of course – heaps of fun. Since 2006, we have offered a variety of Academies to our scholarship holders, both in Germany and abroad.
Dr Anke Dörner
There are different academy formats: The two-week “Mountain Academy” for Bachelor students up to the 6th semester has been held at Disentis Monastery in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland since 2023.
In addition, the Max Weber Program also offers a one-week summer academy for Master's and doctoral students in Ljubljana, Slovenia, as well as a thematically oriented academy with a higher practical component for students from Bachelor's to doctoral level in Roggenburg, also lasting one week. In addition, all Academies of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation are open to scholarship holders, including, for example, the Expedition and Music Academies.
Academies offer our scholarship holders an excellent academic environment. The academies’ working groups depend on the commitment of the researchers involved and the dedication of the participating students.