mpilhlt at the Frankfurt Science Festival
On Saturday, September 28, the mpilhlt will take part in the first Frankfurt Science Festival and present itself together with the regional science institutions networked in the Frankfurt Alliance. The overarching theme is “Transformations”: What are the major challenges of our time, where are new ideas and concepts needed, what is already being researched, what can already be shown by way of example?
The mpilhlt takes up the topic of “Fundamental Rights”: Are fundamental rights a matter of course or a question of luck? Spin our wheel of fortune and travel to another time and place where different rules applied. Maybe you will witness the origin of freedom of speech, or perhaps lose the right of inviolability of the home. Discuss the history of fundamental rights with our team.
At the science festival, other institutions involved in the Frankfurt Alliance will also present vivid examples of their work in order to engage in a constructive exchange with visitors. Insights into and views of science will be presented on the central stage in the form of science slams, performances and exciting discussions. In addition, each institution will showcase research projects in a tent in an exemplary and understandable way that visitors can touch and participate in. Here you can also enter into a dialog with scientists. The event is aimed at all age groups.
Frankfurt Alliance
16 institutions came together to form the Frankfurt Alliance at the end of January this year. This alliance comprises institutes from the four major scientific organizations in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main metropolitan region as well as a federal institution and Goethe University. The Frankfurt Alliance aims to create synergies through networking and joint framework conditions and to counteract the increasing segregation of work processes and research topics.
The following are involved in the Frankfurt Alliance (and thus in the Science Festival): DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and the Leibniz Institute for Peace and Conflict Research (PRIF); the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SGN); the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung; the two Fraunhofer Institutes for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology (ITMP) and for Secure Information Technology (SIT); the Max Planck Institutes for Biophysics (MPI-BP), for Empirical Aesthetics (MPI-EA), for Heart and Lung Research (MPI-HL) and for Legal History and Legal Theory (MPI-LHLT); the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI), the Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI), the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research - Frankfurt site (DKTK) and the Goethe University Frankfurt.