Jutta Allmendinger, Founding Coordinator of the Social Sciences and Humanities Unit of BR50:

"BR50 seeks to facilitate a science policy that works nationally and internationally for the benefit of science and society, and sets a strong statement of Berlin as a science metropolis."

BR50 (Berlin Research 50) is a joint initiative combining Berlin’s non-university research institutions, amongst them the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), to strengthen the city's importance as an international science hub. They have recently released a position paper containing ten demands that should be implemented by the future senate to further strengthen Berlin's role in the research field.