The community of Fellows forms the core of the Wissenschaftskolleg. The great majority of these Fellows work on individual research projects. But if interested researchers want to work on a project together, proposals can be submitted to form small teams of three to a maximum of five Fellows. For young researchers from the life sciences and medicine, the Wissenschaftskolleg offers a special fellowship program with the College for Life Sciences.
Fellows are free to choose their projects during their stay at the Wissenschaftskolleg. The Wissenschaftskolleg also invites a few artists and public intellectuals. In each “class”, the Wissenschaftskolleg strives to put together a group of Fellows that is greater than the sum of its individual members.
With the College for Life Sciences, the Wissenschaftskolleg seeks to give early-career life scientists the opportunity to leave the routines of daily work for a limited time, so that they can look around and interact with researchers and intellectuals from a broad spectrum of disciplines and traditions.
