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Mission Education: The Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau

The meetings of Nobel Laureates have been taking place in Lindau on Lake Constance every year since 1951, focusing in turn on the fields of Chemistry, Physiology/Medicine and Physics. The BMBF has been funding these meetings since Einstein Year in 2005. Every year, approximately 600 outstanding young scientists, who have been chosen in an international selection procedure, meet with around 25 Nobel Laureates, giving them an excellent platform for scientific interaction and inspirational personal meetings.

Opening 61. Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau

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Furthermore, the winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences come together at the meeting in economic sciences every three years.

Die The Lindau Meetings have a clear educational responsibility for tomorrow's academic elite but are at the same time showing a greater tendency to address an interested public. This educational responsibility is summed up under the term "Mission Education".  "Educate - Inspire - Connect" is the guiding principle behind this unique conference.

This guiding principle corresponds to the funding philosophy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), which provides the Lindau Meetings and accompanying events with financial as well as non-material support. The aim is to constantly develop, consolidate and expand the meetings. This is also part of a consistent strategy to secure the future of the Lindau Meetings in Germany as a leading country in the field of education and research.
In recent years, BMBF funds have played a significant role in introducing wide-ranging improvements with regard to expanding international relations and improving scientific standards.

The meetings and the accompanying events are to be integrated even more strongly in the German research landscape so that the Lindau Meetings can develop further to become the hub of a global scientific network of excellence.
 
The BMBF has been funding the meetings of Nobel Laureates since Einstein Year in 2005.


Two meetings are taking place in Lindau in 2011:
The 61st Physiology/Medicine Meeting from 26 June to 1 July 2011
and the 4th Meeting in Economic Sciences from 23 to 27 August 2011.

This year's meetings will be accompanied by an exhibition in the "Discoveries" series on the Isle of Mainau from 20 May to 4 September 2011.

"Discoveries 2011: Health" ("Entdeckungen 2011: Gesundheit") is an interactive exhibition on innovative future projects in health research.
Eighteen pavilions and an info-route set out to stimulate the research spirit and thirst for knowledge of visitors of all ages with exhibits that they can test for themselves and activities in which they can participate.

Innovations in health research are regularly based on discoveries that have won the Nobel Prize. The 61st Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates will provide Nobel Laureates and young scientists from all over the world with an opportunity to discuss the latest scientific developments in physiology and medicine. On the closing day of the meeting, participants will take a look at the future of health research at the exhibition - and thus also at their own field of research.

Copyright: Chr. Flemming/ Entdeckungen 2011

The exhibition is hosted by the Foundation Lindau Nobelprizewinners Meetings at Lake Constance in cooperation with Mainau GmbH and is significantly funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).