The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities cooperates with national academies of other countries as well as with a number of research institutions world wide.
National academies and institutes
Cooperation agreements facilitate high level research activities and international conferences. The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities with following academies in Europe:
Czech Academy of Sciences
The Czech Academy of Sciences and the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities cooperate in a number of research topics.
- Joint project: Common European Values for Assessment of Modern Technological Innovations in Medicine and Beyond (completed in 2025)
Workshop report (PDF) - Czech-German Scientific Symposium (2025 | Leipzig)
- Czech-German Scientific Symposium on
Energy, Sustainable Agriculture and Resilient Society (2024 | Liblice)
Report by the Czech Academy of Sciences - Memorandum signed in 2023
Polish Academy of Sciences
The cooperation agreement with the Polish Academy of Sciences was signed in autumn 2025. The cooperation is to cover various research topis both in the sciences and the humanities. Topics of particular interest include history, artificial intelligence, dynamic processes, biodiversity, and climate.
Spanish Institute of Historical and Judicial Sciences
The Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Spanish Institute of Historical and Judicial Sciences have jointly hosted international conferences in the past focussing on the Spanish Monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire:
- Conference I: Kaiser Karl V. Spanische Monarchie und das Heilige Römische Reich (2024 | Granada)
- International Conference II: Kaiser Karl V. und das Heilige Römische Reich (2019 | Leipzig)
Cooperation in international Projects
In 2025, Saxon Academy Secretary General Dr. Christian Winter and Prof. Zhao of Zhejiang University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing the cooperation of the two insitutions concerning the academy's Buddhist Murals of Kucha project. The cooperation includes the translation of published and future volumes of the Leipzig Kucha Studies into Chinese. The cooperation is also important for significantly expanding the body of image material contained in the Kucha Murals Information System (KMIS).
The project Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture involved more than 500 authors from Germany and abroad. Its was completed in 2025.
International Conferences
Apart from the conferences within the cooperations and projects mentioned above, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities hosts international conferences in regular intervals. In the past, these included:
- 26th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (2024 | Leipzig)
- 15th International Congress of Diplomatics together with the Commission internationale de diplomatique (2018 | Leipzig)
Diffusion Fundamentals conference series
The biannual international conference series Diffusion Fundamentals is a well-established space for scientists of various disciplines to exchange ideas in the broad field of diffusion and spreading phenomena and present their research. The conferences take place under the auspices of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, together with the University of Leipzig and are closely connected to the Comission Diffusion in Nature, Technology and Society of the Saxon Academy.
In 2023, the conference took place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and thus for the first time in Asia (conference report).
Within the past 20 years, over 1,000 articles have been published in the associated peer-reviewed open access publication Diffusion Fundamentals — with more to come.
The international conference series Diffusion Fundamentals in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2023. Images: New Uzbekistan University