Representatives of the national science academies will hand over the statements to the German government during the Science7 Dialogue Forum. The topics of the statements will be discussed with national and international experts and the general public at the event. Speakers at the science conference include President of the Leopoldina Gerald Haug, Leopoldina member Peter Piot, Handa Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine/UK and Chief Scientific Advisor Epidemics to the European Commission, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, President of the Friedrich‐Loeffler‐Institute and Co‐Chair of the international One Health High‐Level Expert Panel, and Sandra Ciesek, Director of the Institute of Medical Virology at University Hospital Frankfurt am Main/Germany.

The future of international science-based policy advice to address multilateral challenges will be discussed by Nobel Laureate in Physics Takaaki Kajita, President of the Science Council of Japan, Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Indonesia, Anatoly Zagorodny, President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and President of the Leopoldina Gerald Haug.

The recommendations of the science academies of the G7 states will inform the deliberations of the heads of state and government during the G7 summit at Schloss Elmau from Sunday, 26 June to Tuesday, 28 June. For more than 15 years, the science academies of the G7 states have been publishing joint statements on selected topics on the summit agenda. As German National Academy of Sciences, the Leopoldina has been officially mandated by the German government to lead the science-based policy advice for the summit ‒ the Science7 process ‒ as part of the German G7 presidency. The Leopoldina last had this role in 2015.