Fellows Meetings

29.04.2011, Berlin | On May 12–14, 2011, sixty doctoral students, postdocs, and short-term fellows of the Ernst Schering Foundation from all over the world, including former and current fellows in the fields of biology, chemistry, and medicine as well as art and culture, will come together for the next Fellows Meeting in Berlin. Every two years, the meetings provide the Foundation’s fellows with an opportunity to stay in touch and exchange experiences and opinions also after the end of the fellowship.

The fourth meeting of the fellows and alumni of the Ernst Schering Foundation took place on July 9-11, 2009. Sixty participants from all over the world met at the Harnack House in Berlin to make or maintain contacts, exchange experiences and participate in an interdisciplinary program of lectures and discussions. The participants are current or former recipients of doctoral, postdoctoral or short-term fellowships from the Ernst Schering Foundation or former Schering AG Berlin in the fields of biology, chemistry, and medicine. For the first time, attendees also included fellows in the field of art.

For many, it was a reunion with old friends, for others it was the first time they met the fellows and alumni of the Ernst Schering Foundation and presented their projects to them.

The two-day Fellows Meeting offered a densely packed program: in four sessions, the current fellows presented the research projects that they carry out during their two-year fellowship period at renowned international institutes. Lectures by experienced scientists such as Professor Wolfgang Baumeister from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried or Professor Andreas Busch, Executive Director (Research) of Bayer Schering Pharma AG in Berlin, complemented the scientific program.

In June 2005, 60 young researchers gathered for the Fellows Meeting of the Ernst Schering Foundation in Berlin to exchange experiences and ideas. But the meeting was not only about a conversation with each other, but also with society. "How can we improve the dialogue between science and the public?" was one of the questions discussed as part of a workshop.