Minerva Schools - Previous Schools

The workshop and conference grant opportunity for young German and Israeli junior scientists is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and administered by Minerva.

Year	Subject	Organisers	Location
2018	Trade Routes between Aram and Israel in the Iron Age: A Multi-Disciplinary Examination of their Significance to Social and Cultural Exchange	Dr. Amit Dagan, Ramat-Gan Mr. Felix Hagemeyer, Leipzig Mr. Assaf Kleiman, Tel Aviv Ms. Juliane Stein, Leipzig	Jordan- Valley Golan- Heights
2017	Quantum Dipolar Gases in Atomic and Condensed Matter Systems	Prof. Ronen Rapaport, Jerusalem Dr. Paulo Santos, Berlin	Jerusalem
2016	Emerging High-throughput Systems for Wildlife Tracking at the Regional Scale	Prof. Ran Nathan, Jerusalem Prof. Sivan Toledo,Tel Aviv Prof. Florian Jeltsch, Potsdam Prof. Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Frankfurt/Main	Hula Valley
2015	Mitochondria: Function & Dysfunction	Prof. Abdussalam Azem, Tel Aviv Prof. Johannes Herrmann, Kaiserslautern Prof. Ophry Pines, Jerusalem Prof. Doron Rapaport, Tuebingen	Ein Gedi
2014	Cognitive Robotics	Prof. Yael Edan, Beer Sheva, Prof. Verena Hafner, HU Berlin, Dr. Iris Tabak, Beer Sheva	Berlin
2013	Non-Compositionality and Figurative Speech: Collocations, Idioms, Metaphors, Proverbs	Prof. Edit Doron, Jerusalem, Mr. Pavel Kats, Jerusalem, Prof. Manfred Krifka, HU Berlin, Prof. Gert Webelhuth, Frankfurt/Main	Jerusalem
2012	Flows on Homogeneneous Spaces	Dr. Uri Bader, Technion Prof. Roman Sauer, University of Regensburg	Haifa
2011	Alternative, Sustainable Energy Options	Prof. David Cahen, WIS, Dr. Klaus Lips, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, Prof. H.-W. Schock, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin	Israel
2010	Frontiers in Vascular Biology	Prof. Wolfgang Siess, University of Munich, Prof. David Varon, HUJ	Ma'aleh Hachamisha
2009	Ubiquitous Display Environments: Intelligent Group Interaction, Foundations and Implementation of Pervasive Multimodal Interfaces	Prof. Antonio Krueger, University of Muenster, Dr. Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa	Haifa
2009	Pharmacogenetics: Improving the Safety and Efficacy of Medicines	Prof. Gregory Livshits, TAU, Dr. David Gurwitz, TAU, Prof. Julia Kirchheiner, University of Ulm	Tel Aviv
2009	P-adic Methods in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry	Prof. Ehud de Shalit, HUJ, Prof. Peter Schneider, University of Muenster	Jerusalem
2009	Human Rights in Times of Emergency: German, Israeli and International Perspectives	Prof. Eckart Klein, University of Potsdam, Prof. Yuval Shany, HUJ	Jerusalem
2008	Global Public Policy and the Law of International Administration	Prof. Armin von Bogdandy, MPI for Comparative Public Law and International Law	Tel Aviv
2008	Arithmetic Geometry and Public Key Cryptography	Prof. Moshe Jarden, TAU	Tel Aviv
2007	On Biological and Bio-inspired Materials	Prof. Peter Fratzl, MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam	Berlin
2007	Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Mediterrean Region during the Medieval Period	Prof. Reuven Amitai, Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Jerusalem
2006	Bi-national Course in Neurobiology	Prof. Yosi Yarom, Inter-University Institute, Eilat	Eilat
2006	Unique Molecular Effects in Electronic Materials and Devices	Prof. David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot	Ein Gedi
2006	Frontiers on High Pressure Research	Prof. Moshe Paz-Pasternak, Tel Aviv University	Ein Gedi
2005	The Construction of Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish Identity: A Comparative and Dialogical Study	Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig	Schloss Elmau
2005	How to Gender Memory. Media and Remembrance in Israel and Germany	Ms. Julia Koehne, M.A., Prof. Christina von Braun, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin	Beer Sheva
2004	Identification and Quantification of Metalimnetic Processes in a Subtropical Lake - Lake Kinneret as a Case Study	Dr. Ora Hadas, the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Dr. Assaf Sukenik, the Yigal Allon Kinneret Limnological Laboratory	Sea of Galilee
2004	Jewish and German Cultural Diversity: The Case of Modern German Theatre (1870-1933)	Prof. Peter W. Marx, Universität Mainz	Mainz
2003	Modern Optimization and its Application in Engineering II	Prof. K. Schittkowski, Universität Bayreuth	Thurnau
2003	Jewish History as Integrated European History	Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig	Leipzig
2003	Metabolite Profiling in Plant Tissues	Prof. Shmuel Wolf, Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology	Golm
2003	High Temperature Super Conductivity	Prof. R.P. Hübener, Universität Tübingen	Blaubeuren
2002	Cytoplasmic Fate of RNA	Prof. Justin Silver, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem	Berlin
2002	Computational Quantum Chemistry	Prof. Christoph van Wüllen, TU Berlin	Blankensee
2002	Computational Linguistics	Prof. Erhard W. Hinrichs, Universität Tübingen	Tübingen
2001	Soil Ecology in a Desert Ecosystem	Professor P. Felix-Henningsen, Universität Giessen	Nitzana
2001	Molecular, Interfacial and Biological Aspects of Mesostructures	Dr. Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozen	Rehovot, The Negev
2000	Biological Physics	Professor Elisha Moses, Weizmann Institute of Science	Rehovot
1999	Turbulence: Theory, Experiments and Simulations	Professor Itamar Procaccia, Weizmann Institute of Science	Rehovot
1998	Conference for young Lawyers from Israel and Germany	Deutsch-Israelische Jursitenvereinigung e.V.	Kibbuz Ramot
1997	Strongly Correlated Electron Systems	Professor Uzy Smilansky, Weizmann Institute of Science	Rehovot