During the coming weeks, we are working on a rough structure of the categories and forums of the forthcoming academici-network.

The basic structure will be threefold:
a) Open Forums for the main academic disciplines, scholar's organizations, Universities, Libraries, Museums, Publishing Houses ...
b) Closed Forums for Research Projects, Organizations ...
c) Open Forums for Knowledge Transfer, Sponsoring/Fundraising, Business to Higher Education, Students, Life Style

The Open Forums for the main academic disciplines [under a)] will be peer reviewed by the moderators of these Forums. Applications for the creation of such Forums and for becoming Moderators of them are taken from now on the following basis. Applicants suggest:
* a title for the requested Forum
* a short title for the Forum
* choose one of the categories below (either a discipline or one of the other categories)
* a short proposal for the Forum (if you choose a discipline as a category, we'll ask two peers for reviews which we will pass on to the applicants for consideration)
* in short your personal/scholarly background for proposing this Forum
* a rough estimate about the expected number of members of this Forum
* name at least one co-moderator who is member of the present academici-tribe on tribe
* indicate your personal aims with this proposal
* a rough estimate of the time you would like to invest into running the Forum

Please choose from one of the following, suggested categories:
a) Academic disciplines, scholar's organizations, Universities, Libraries,
Museums, Publishing Houses ...:
1. African Studies
2. Agriculture/Agricultural Economics (suggested by Aimee Riecke)
3. American and Canadian Studies
4. Ancient History
5. Anthropology
6. Archaeology
7. Biochemistry
8. Biology
9. Brazilian Studies
10. Business Studies
11. Chemistry
12. Chinese Studies
13. Classics
14. Cultural Studies
15. Development Studies
16. East European Studies
17. Earth Sciences
18. Economics
19. Education
20. Engineering
21. English Language/Studies
22. European Studies
23. Geography
24. German Studies
25. History
26. History of Art
27. International Relations
28. IT
29. Japan Studies
30. Law
31. Mathematics
32. Media Studies
33. Medicine
34. Medieval History
35. Medieval and Modern Languages
36. Modern History
37. Music - Arts - Performance
38. Oriental Studies
39. Philology
40. Philosophy
41. Physics
42. Plant Sciences
43. Politics
44. Psychology
45. Religious Studies/Theology
46. Social Policy/Social Work
47. Sociology
48. South Asian Studies
49. Sports
50. Interdisciplinary Studies

51. Scholar's networks
52. Scholar's organizations
53. Universities
54. Libraries
55. Museums
56. Publishing Houses

b) Closed Forums for Research Projects, Organizations ...
57. applies for all Closed Forums of this type