Energy systems of the future
Sustainability, financial viability, security of supply and social acceptance: With these goals on their agenda, the initiative “Energy Systems of the Future”, supported by the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech, the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Union of German Academies of Sciences, is accompanying the energy revolution in Germany.
Last edited: 05. December 2025
With a second project phase, the science academies are continuing the joint initiative under the leadership of acatech. In interdisciplinary working groups, around 100 experts develop options for action to pave the way for an environmentally friendly, secure and affordable energy supply.
Mode of Operation, Dialogue Formats and structure
Further information
Statements from this academy project appear in the joint publication "Series of Publications on Scientific Policy Advice". The positions of involved parties from politics, science, business and civil society are collected in various dialogue formats and subsequently evaluated scientifically. The aim is to point out alternative paths for the implementation of the energy revolution.
The project members are representatives of university, non-university and industrial research. A five-member board of directors manages the project and represents the project in external relations. The statements compiled in the project are approved by the board of trustees. This committee is composed of representatives of the academies, the German scientific community and guests from the political realm.
Participating institutions
- National Academy of Science and Engineering acatech (leading organisation)
- German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities
Members of the Board of Trustees
- Prof Dr Claudia Eckert
acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering - Prof Dr Bettina Rockenbach ML
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Prof Dr Christoph Markschies
Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities - Prof Dr Reiner Anderl
Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz - Prof Dr Ursula Gather
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation - Prof Dr Veronika Grimm
Nuremberg University of Technology (UTN) - Prof Dr Jutta Hanson
Darmstadt University of Technology - Prof Dr Robert Schlögl ML
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - Prof Dr Christoph M. Schmidt ML
RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research - MinDirig'in Oda Keppler (Guest)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Ministerialrätin Dr.-Ing. Rodoula Tryfonidou (guest)
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
Chairman of the Board of Directors
- Prof Dr Andreas Löschel
Ruhr University Bochum
Members of the Board of Directors
- Prof. Dr Dirk Uwe Sauer
RWTH Aachen University - Prof. Dr Hans-Martin Henning
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE - Prof Dr Karen Pittel
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich - Prof Dr Jürgen Renn ML
Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology - Prof. Dr Indra Spiecker called Döhmann
University of Cologne - Prof Dr Ellen Matthies
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg - Prof. Dr Manfred Fischedick
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy GmbH
ML = Member of the Leopoldina
Kontakt Dr. Christian Anton
