Current Minerva Centers

Minerva Centers are scientific pioneer institutions with a focus on innovative research topics in Israel and are funded by the Minerva Stiftung, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the particular host university where the Center is based. The research at the Centers is carried out in cooperation with German partners.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Minerva Center on Cell Intelligence

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Established in 2021)

Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History

History Minerva Centers

Established 1977

Fritz Haber Minerva Center for Molecular Dynamics

Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 1981

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Minerva Center of Computer Science

Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 1984

Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History

History Humanities Minerva Centers

Established 1990

Minerva Center of Movement Ecology

Established 2012

Minerva Center for Bio-Hybrid Complex Systems

Established 2012

The Weizmann Institute of Science

George F. Duckwitz Chair of Cancer Research

Biology & Medicine Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 1975

Minerva Center for Aging, from physical materials to human tissues

Biology & Medicine Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 2019

Minerva Center for Self Repairing Systems for Energy and Sustainability

Environment & Climate Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 2018

Minerva Center for Early Life under Extreme Planetary Conditions

Astronomy & Astrophysics Material & Technology

Established 2013

Minerva Center on Live Emulation of Evolution in the Lab

Biology & Medicine Minerva Centers

Established 2014

Minerva Center for Decision making Strategies in Microorganisms

Biology & Medicine Minerva Centers

Established 2015

Tel Aviv University

Minerva Center for Human Intelligence in immersive, augmented and mixed Realities

Minerva Centers

Tel Aviv University (Established 2021)

Minerva Institute for German History and Wiener Library

History Humanities

Established 1971

Minerva Humanities Center

Humanities Minerva Centers

Established 2009

Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life

Established 2011

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Franz Ollendorf Minerva Center for Information and Automation

Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 1985

Minerva Center for Micro Turbine Powered Energy Systems

Material & Technology Minerva Centers

Established 2014

Bar-Ilan University

Minerva Center for Biological mechanisms of healthy aging

Biology & Medicine Minerva Centers

Established 2019

Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times

History Minerva Centers

Established 2015

University of Haifa

Minerva Center for Building bridges between multiple marginalized older adults and mainstream society

Humanities Minerva Centers

Established 2019

Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions

Environment & Climate Humanities Minerva Centers

Established 2014

Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University

Minerva Center for Human Rights

Humanities Minerva Centers

Established 1995