Strategies and Guiding Principles

Senckenberg observes current discussions in various fields, implementing relevant aspects in its own guidelines. These are implemented through bottom-up processes.

Sebastian Köpcke, Volker Weinhold

Colonial Legacies

Being over 200 years long, much of Senckenberg’s history, and many of our collections are connected to colonial times. We thus do not only feel the obligation to address these legacies, yet also believe that cooperating with partners in countries of the “Global South” offers great opportunities for both science and society.

Steven Kamenar

Mission Statement of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

To understand the natural and anthropogenic dynamics of our planet and its living world and to shape them in terms of sustainable development ...

K. Stich

Sustainability

Guidelines of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

As Senckenberg's research focuses on the Earth system and its interrelationships, we have continued to collect comprehensive knowledge of the effects of man-made global change on the world's biodiversity, ecosystems, and mankind...

Green Chameleon

Good research practice

The Good Research Practice (GRP) refers to a self-imposed professional ethical attitude of the national and international scientific community.

SGN Senckenberg

Research Data Best Practices

SGN manages large sets of data associated with scientific collections and an increasingly diverse set of other geobiodiversity data. We make sure that legal and ethical obligations are followed and that the long term reusability of the data is guaranteed.