Skip to main content
Das Logo von ALLEA: "allea" in blauer Schrift, rechts daneben in kleiner grauer Schrift "All European Academies"
International Relations

ALLEA

ALLEA is the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, representing more than 50 academies from over 40 countries in Europe. Since its foundation in 1994, ALLEA represents its Member Academies on the European stage and seeks to promote science as a global public good.

Further Information

ALLEA Website

About SAPEA

General assembly 2024

It is not only the locations of these academies that are diverse, but also their structures. Some take the form of learned societies, some of think tanks, and others of research organisations. But they have one thing in common: they are self-governed communities of researchers representing the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and constitute hubs of some of the most outstanding scholars in the country.

Solving challenges in an ever more complex world requires comprehensive interdisciplinary and international cooperation from beginning to end. ALLEA’s main objective is to actively create optimal conditions for science and research in Europe while remaining independent from political, commercial and ideological interests with the aim of establishing the ideal environment for scientific progress and innovation.

In addition, ALLEA advises politicians, society and the scientific community on issues pertaining to scientific research and science policy with statements and advice devised in standing and ad-hoc working groups that transcend national and disciplinary borders.

ALLEA is playing a very active role within the SAPEA (Science Advice for Policy by European Academies)-Project. Together with its partner-organisations Academia Europaea, EASAC, Euro-CASE and FEAM ALLEA is via SAPEA closely co-operating with the Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) of the European Commission in order to incorporate the scientific expertise of more than 100 European Academies from 40 states into the political consultancy.


President:
Prof. Dr. Antonio Loprieno
President of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences

Delegates of the Union of German Academies:
Prof. Dr. Annette Grüters-Kieslich
Medicine
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Representatives of the Standing Working Groups:
Intellectual Property Rights:

Prof. Dr. Gerald Spindler
University of Göttingen, copyright law
Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Science & Ethics:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Quante
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Philosophical Class
Member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and the Arts


Representatives in the ALLEA Working Group:
Horizone Europe:
Prof. Dr. Axel Börsch-Supan
Max-Planck-Institute for social law and social policy, Munich
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Prof. Dr. Ottmar Ette
Institute for Romance Studies, University of Potsdam
Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities