Transnational actors and national institutions in scientific exchange and transfer processes between Germany and Argentina

This project will bring together two lines of research that have already been initiated in Berlin and Buenos Aires. The Ibero-American Institute's research project examines the activities of German academics who spent a longer period of time in Argentina. Based on the analysis of the life paths, scientific production and network formation of these scientists, their role in the transfer and exchange processes between Germany and Argentina will be worked out.

In contrast, the project based at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana E. Ravignani in Buenos Aires focuses in particular on the role of institutions with regard to the formation of international academic networks. Above all, the strategies for academic exchange that have been developed and implemented in Argentinian universities are being considered. Particular attention will be paid to the role of intermediary institutions that have channeled the exchange processes between Argentina and European countries since the beginning of the 20th century.

The aim of the cooperation is to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the exchange and transfer processes that took place in the field of science between Germany and Argentina in the 19th and early 20th centuries and to overcome the previously prevailing division of labor in the direction of a common, more comprehensive approach.

The cooperation measures include visits by the Argentinian partners in Berlin and the German project coordinator in Argentina. They enable the exchange of information on the status of individual research projects and the organization of project presentations and discussions with the project partners and other researchers working on related issues.

Bringing together the lines of research based in Berlin and Buenos Aires enables a deeper understanding of the complex forms of transfer and exchange processes between the two countries. The cooperation makes it possible to shed light on the overall dynamics of complex transfer processes, which result from the interaction of the actions of the scientists involved, the transfer achievements of academic networks, the strategies of academic institutions and the respective national policies.