HIAS celebrates its fifth anniversary!

In 2025, HIAS celebrates its fifth anniversary!
It was founded by eight member institutions with the ambition to make Hamburg
even better known as a location of research in the world, to invite excellent researchers and artists to get to know the diverse research here and to network — across disciplines and career levels and from all over the world. HIAS also aims to promote cooperation between the various scientific institutions. That was the idea.

Has it been a success? For five years now, fellows, their tandem partners and colleagues from all over the world, politicians, public intellectuals and journalists have been meeting at HIAS’s two premises in Rothenbaumchaussee and Mittelweg to discuss research projects, visions for the future, administrative challenges as well as crises and opportunities in different countries. These discussions always take place on an equal footing and with mutual respect. Curiosity, interest, compassion and often joy fill the rooms. People discuss, eat and drink together.

HIAS has been a protective space for all of this since it was founded. This year we are celebrating this special place and planning the years to come …