The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (formerly the Prussian Academy of Sciences and Humanities) is an association of outstanding scientists and scholars with a tradition spanning more than 300 years and transcending disciplinary and national borders. As the largest non-university humanities research institution in the region, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities preserves, researches and develops cultural heritage for the present and the future. It serves to promote the sciences, provides social and political advice and promotes dialog between science and society.