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The two Minerva Centers for History at the University of Haifa and the Hebrew University play a central role in Germany and Israel's cooperation in the humanities and cultural sciences. Other main issues of the bilateral collaboration are law, migration and integration.
The key areas of research of the two Minerva Centers are the contribution of German Jews to German art, culture and science in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as current issues and developments in German politics, industry, science, society and arts.
The ZEIT Foundation runs the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa.
The ZEIT foundation also supports the Center for Multiculturalism and Educational Research at the University of Haifa. The Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair of German Literature at the University of Tel Aviv was set up several years ago, and there is a Minerva Center for German-Jewish Literature at the Hebrew University.
On March 18th 2008, the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Dr Annette Schavan, opened the Center for German Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, that was conceived and funded by the DAAD. As part of the German-Israeli Year of Science, a Minerva Center for the Humanities and Cultural Sciences is to be set up in 2008.
Outstanding research: The German-Israeli collaborative project on migration and social integration, which is supported by the BMBF and includes the Universities of Jena, Chemnitz, Leipzig, Mannheim and Bielefeld on the German side and the Universities of Haifa and Tel Aviv (TAU) on the Israeli side, has been running since 2005.
It is a comparative project that deals with the conditions of the process of acculturation and integration into host countries. Diaspora migrants (late resettlers, mainly from the countries of the former Soviet Union in Germany, and Russian Jews in Israel) are at the focus of investigation. The project also includes research on minority groups that have already lived in their host countries for a long time but are not well integrated, such as Turks in Germany and the Arab population in Israel.
Due to the fact that the German legal tradition was transmitted to Israel by German-Jewish immigrants, there is great interest in German constitutional law and German legal practice in Israel. For this reason, Minerva runs a Minerva Center for Human Rights at the University of Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Projects and research visits in the fields of culture and society are mainly supported by the programmes of the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) and Minerva, the German Research Association (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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