Opening Plenary Lecture:
Trust in Science
The Opening Plenary Lecture asks why science depends on social trust and why it deserves it. The answer will be that it is not so much the solutions to societal challenges that justify such trust, but rather the openness to scrutiny of all modern scientific knowledge claims.
And this consideration leads to some rather important implications for scientific advice to society and policymakers.
Peter Strohschneider is professor emeritus of German Medieval Studies at the LMU in Munich. He chaired the German Sciences and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat) and is the former president of the DFG (German Research Foundation). In 2024 he was Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission on the Future of EU agriculture. Peter is a member of, i.al., the Academia Europaea, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, acatech - The National Academy of Science and Engineering, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
