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27-28 June 2024
Berlin, Germany

The Transatlantic Big Science Conference is a new forum for productive, thoughtful, and candid conversations about the urgent need to empower research collaborations across national boundaries. Planning is now underway for the second Transatlantic Big Science Conference, to be held on 27-28 June 2024 in Berlin.

The Transatlantic Big Science Conference aspires to create opportunities to renew and reinvigorate historic collaborations between scientists and organizations on both sides of the Atlantic and to empower transnational research communities to pursue transformational, sustainable solutions to global grand challenges.

The inaugural conference was held in Washington DC in 2022. The program, jointly organized by the US-based Carnegie Science and the EU-based DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron), brought together international scientific leaders, researchers and policymakers working across disciplines. The conference highlighted a wide range of exciting new research and led to important conversations on how scientists on both sides of the Atlantic can collaborate most productively.

Since that first conference, the Transatlantic Big Science Conference steering committee has been working to move these conversations forward and find the most effective and innovative ways to build lasting connections between researchers on both sides of the Atlantic.

Please contact transatlanticscience@desy.de if you have any questions.

Transatlantic Science @ Falling Walls Science Summit 2023

Carnegie Science and DESY had the opportunity to promote the Transatlantic Science Initiative by hosting a plenary table at the Falling Walls Science Summit 2023. The panel labeled Transatlantic Science Bridge in Key Science and Technology Developments featured distinguished guests discussing the challenges and opportunities of multilateral partnerships in various areas such as quantum computing and semiconductors and biopreparedness research. The video recording is now available in the Falling Walls Content Library.