What are the goals of the Lindau Meetings?

The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings provide a globally recognised forum for the exchange of knowledge between Nobel Laureates and young researchers. They inspire scientific generations and build sustainable networks of young researchers from around the world. 

The participants at the Lindau Meetings are characterised by diversity. They all come from a variety of national and scientific backgrounds and have very different ways of communicating. This makes the Nobel Laureate Meetings unique in the world and a model of the kind of visionary cooperation which science will increasingly need in the future. On the contrary, scientific progress will need to be firmly anchored in international and interdisciplinary networks of individuals working together. Lindau provides the stimulus for such networks to take root and grow. 

The original idea of the meetings goes back to the two Lindau physicians Dr. Franz Karl Hein und Professor Dr. Gustav Parade and Count Lennart Bernadotte af Wisborg, a member of the Swedish royal family who quickly became the spiritus rector behind the Lindau Meetings. It was he who recognised the significance of the meetings for the reconciliation of the peoples of post-war Europe early and systematically developed it to an international forum for the exchange of knowledge between nations, cultures and disciplines.