Content: Topping-out ceremony for new headquarters - Refurbishment work on the distinguished building on the Jägerberg is due to be completed by the end of this year.

• Recommendations to the G8 Summit - The national science academies of the G8+ states presented two statements to the participating governments in the run-up to the G8 Summit of Heads of State and Government in Deauville, France.
• Leopoldina submits recommendations for energy and research - Germany has been discussing the future of energy supply and issues of energy research for a long time now.Recent events in Fukushima have made these matters more relevant than ever and have sparked heated debates both in politics and society.
• The Leopoldina is actively supporting the German-Russian Year of Science
• Workshop on transgenic plants concludes the successful German-Brazilian Year of Science
• Marina Koch-Krumrei heads Department of International Relations
• EASAC presents report on infectious diseases
• New and old tropical infectious diseases - Joint conference of the Leopoldina and the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in Kumasi on tropical medicine and the challenges of the future
• Complex systems and foreseeable risks A new series of symposia hosted by the Leopoldina Classes was launched in March
• Senators and Spokespersons of the Leopoldina after the elections 2010/2011