The Atlantis Research Charter followed on from the 2005 Atlantis Conference in Melos. Four of the German participants, Ulrich Hofmann, the late Ulf Richter and Christian & Siegfried Schoppe decided to develop a charter for Atlantis research as a first step towards the development of a new discussion and research forum. Unfortunately this new forum was to be conducted in the German language. Thorwald C. Franke subsequently joined this group. The text of this charter is available on the Internet^(a). Briefly, the charter aims to have the subject of Atlantis discussed from a scientific perspective as an open issue. The charter firmly rejects pseudoscience, dogmatism and abuse for political or religious ends.

^(a) http://www.atlantis-scout.de/charter.htm