Save the date: Preparations for the first Science Festival, which will take place on Frankfurt’s Roßmarkt on Saturday, September 28, 2024, are already in full swing.
The Frankfurt Alliance’s first joint public event will be a science festival held in downtown Frankfurt’s Roßmarkt Square on September 28. In putting together the celebration, the alliance’s participating institutions are taking science right into the heart of the city.
The overarching topic of the first Frankfurt Science Festival is “transformations.” What are the major challenges of our time, where are new ideas and concepts needed, what is already being researched, and which aspects of the latter can already be demonstrated with examples? What kinds of discussions and reflections are necessary to offer critical support to change processes? The program will focus on current topics such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), climate change, social conflicts, provisions for old age, cancer research, brain research and learning in the future.
The participating institutions will present informative examples of their work at the festival and are looking forward to fruitful interactions with visitors. Science slams, performances and exciting discussions on the main stage will offer scientific insights and views. In addition, every institution will have its own tent showcasing comprehensible examples of its own research projects, allowing visitors to try things out and obtain some hands-on experience. They will also be able to talk with the scientists. The festival is aimed at people of all ages.
Frankfurt Alliance
At the end of January 2024, 16 institutions joined forces to form the Frankfurt Alliance, which comprises institutes from the four major scientific organizations in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan region along with one federal institution as well as Goethe University Frankfurt. The idea behind the network and its shared framework conditions is to create synergies and counteract the increasing segregation of work processes and research topics.
The institutions participating in the Frankfurt Alliance (and thus in the Science Festival) are: DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Senckenberg Society for Nature Research (SGN), the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (GSI), the Fraunhofer Institutes for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP) and for Secure Information Technology (SIT), the Max Planck Institutes for Biophysics (MPIBP), Empirical Aesthetics (MPIAe), Heart & Lung Research (MPIHL), and Legal History & Legal Theory (MPILHLT), the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience (ESI), the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), the Frankfurt site of the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) and Goethe University Frankfurt.
