After three years of work, the working group "Aging in Germany" submitted their recommendations to Federal President Horst Köhler on March 26, 2009.  The project was initiated by the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and carried out together with the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech.  It has been the largest interdisciplinary research project in Germany on the phenomenon of "an aging society" so far.

Institutions

• National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (responsibility)
• German Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech
• Jacobs Foundation

Spokespersons of the Working Group

• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka ML
• Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger ML (Deputy Spokesperson)

Members

• Prof. Dr. Uschi Backes-Gellner
  Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Baumert ML
  Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin and the Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Becker
  Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich and the Ludwig Maximilian University Law School, Munich
• Prof. Dr. Axel Börsch-Supan ML
  Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, University of Mannheim
• Prof. Dr. Josef Ehmer
  Department of Social and Economic History, University of Vienna
• Prof. Dr. Karl M. Einhäupl ML
  Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Otfried Höffe ML
  Department of Philosophy, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
• Prof. Dr. Reinhard F. Hüttl
  German Research Center for Geosciences, Potsdam
• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Keil
  FRCP Institute for Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster and UNC Chapel Hill, Department of Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. Kurt Kochsiek ML
  Internal Medicine, University of Würzburg
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kocka ML
  Friedrich Meinecke Institute, Freie Universität Berlin and the Social Science Research Center Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Martin Kohli
  Department of Social and Political Sciences, European University Institute, Florence
• Prof. Dr. Ulman Lindenberger ML
  Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Bernhard Müller
  Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development, Dresden und Chair of Spatial Development, Technische Universität Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Jürgen Nehmer
  Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern
• Prof. Dr. Jutta Schnitzer-Ungefug
  National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Halle
• Prof. Dr. Ursula M. Staudinger ML
  Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, Jacobs University Bremen
• Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen
  Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin and Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Universitätsklinikum Charité, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner
  German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Department of Economics and Management of the Technische Universität Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Georg Wick ML
  Institute for Pathophysiology, Innsbruck Medical University

ML = (Member of the Leopoldina)