The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

International Forum for Exchange. The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings – established in 1951 – provide a globally recognised forum for exchange between Nobel Laureates and young scientists. They inspire scientific generations and build sustainable networks of young scientists around the world.

Since 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings offer scientists numerous opportunities to inspire and network with one another.

More information see www.lindau-nobel.org.

Lindau meeting 2023

72nd meeting was dedicated to medicine and physiology and took place from 25-30 June. From Estonia, the participants were Brita Laht, 5th year student of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tartu, and Kattri-Liis Eskla, researcher in human physiology at the Institute of Bio- and Translational Medicine at the University of Tartu. More information on the Lindau meetings website.

Lindau Meeting 2022

The Lindau Meeting was dedicated to chemistry and took place from 26 June to 1 July 2022. The Young Economists Meeting with Nobel Laureates in Economics took place from 23-27 August 2022. More information here.

70th Lindau Meeting (Interdisciplinary)

Kristjan Kalam (University of Tartu, Institute of Physics, Laboratory of Thin-Film Technology, Junior Research Fellow in Material Science) and Urmeli Katus (University of Tartu, Faculty of Medicine, Dean's Office, Faculty of Medicine, Advisor, guideline development group) are invited to particiapte in the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (2020 Interdisciplinary #LINO20).
660 young scientists from 101 countries are invited to the 70th anniversary of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings.

69th Lindau  Nobel Laureate Meeting (physics) – a winner announced

Mr. Priidik Gallagher, Graduate Student (the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu) won the right to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting 30 June – 5 July 2019.

The meeting’s key topics will be cosmology, laser physics and gravitational waves. Selected participants - 580 young scientists from 88 countries are outstanding undergraduates,

PhD Students and post-docs under age of 35, conducting research in the field of physics. Among the 42 participating laureates are the 2018 Nobel Laureates in Physics, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou.

Since 1951, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings offer scientists numerous opportunities to inspire and network with one another. More information see www.lindau-nobel.org.

68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (physiology and medicine)

Three young researchers from Estonia won right to participate through a two-stage selection process, first the national competition, organised by the Estonian Academy of Sciences, and the following assessment by the scientific panel of the Lindau Meeting Council.

They were Uku Haljasorg (Postdoc, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), Kristi Huik (Postdoc, National Institute for Health, USA) and Liis Lemsalu (PhD Student, University of Tartu, Junior Researcher, The National Institute for Health Development).

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings bring annually together Nobel laureates and young talents all over the world. 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was dedicated to physiology and medicine and took place from 24–29 June 2018.

For more information see www.lindau-nobel.org.

67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry; June 2017): national competition closed – a winner announced

As an academic partner of the Lindau Meetings, Estonian Academy of Sciences organised a national contest and singled out three bright young researchers. They were nominated for the next stage – an international competition where a review panel of the organising council would make the final selection of participants for the coming Meeting. Now the results have been made public: Mr. Gert Preegel Institute of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology) will represent Estonia in Lindau.

Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings bring annually together Nobel laureates and some 400 aspiring young talents all over the world under the motto “Educate. Inspire. Connect”. For more information, see www.lindau-nobel.org.

66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting: fresh personal impressions

Since 1951, Nobel laureates and talented young researchers meet once a year in a small picturesque town of Lindau, Germany. In June 2016 the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (dedicated to physics and related fields of research) took place. Some 400 aspiring young researchers from all over the world met more than 30 Nobel Laureates, to exchange knowledge and ideas, to share their enthusiasm for science and to establish new contacts.

Through a two-stage selection process - first the national competition, organised by the Estonian Academy of Sciences, and the following assessment by the evaluation panel of the Lindau Meeting Council, Ms. Marta Tarkanovskaja, a PhD student (the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu) won the right to participate. Her participation was supported by the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings conjointly with sponsors and by the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

See the fresh personal impressions of our participant here.

The lectures of Nobel laureates can be watched at: http://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/

65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

Since 1951, Nobel laureates and talented young researchers meet once a year in a small picturesque town in Lindau, Germany. From 28 June to 3 July 2015, some 650 aspiring young researchers from all over the world will meet some 70 Nobel Laureates,  to exchange knowledge and ideas, to share their enthusiasm for science and to establish new contacts. The coming meeting will be interdisciplinary, assembling  scientists across the fiels of physics, chemistry and medicine/physiology. Two young Estonians  have won a right to participate through a two-stage selection process, first the national competition, organised by the Estonian Academy of Sciences, and the following assessment by the scientific panel of the Lindau Meeting Council. They are Ms. Olesja Bondarenko (PhD) of the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics and Mr. Mihkel Kama (PhD), at present of Leiden University.