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In a globalised world, a country’s prospects for growth, affluence and social harmony are inextricably bound up with scientific and technical progress. Innovative know-how is, however, a desired object and modern knowledge societies all over the world invest huge sums competing with each other to acquire it.
This contest makes it particularly difficult for developing and threshold counties to develop functioning and internationally competitive science systems. How and where is the scientific training given to junior researchers really successful? How can academics be encouraged to address the special problems confronting the less developed countries in their research? At present, developing counties still face a serious imbalance in the distribution and focus of research activities which are largely oriented to the future issues occupying the industrialised nations worldwide.
But many problems can only be solved if developed and less developed countries cooperate with each more closely than they have so far. Climate change, future energy provision and combating infectious disease are examples for some of the challenges no nation can meet alone. They require international cooperation, in science, too.
The Humboldt Foundation’s answer to these issues and problems is targeted sponsorship for academic excellence in developing countries and the further consolidation of its transnational and transdisciplinary scientific networks in these regions.
In 2008 and 2009, the Foundation has targeted Africa for sponsorship. It has been participating in the “Aktion Afrika”, an initiative of the Federal Foreign Office, involving more than 20 scientific conferences in African countries.
19 December 2012
The Humboldt Foundation has agreed to cooperate closely with Kenya’s National Council for Science and Technology (NCST) to reach more of Kenya’s academic high-flyers. In a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding it was agreed that they would jointly publicise the sponsorship opportunities offered by the Humboldt Foundation.
13 December 2012
Four researchers from developing and transition countries will receive the awards valued at 60,000 EUR each.
11 December 2012
Contribution to African network of excellence in mathematics.
4 December 2012
To strengthen collaboration between outstanding African and German academics, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has launched the “Neville Alexander Memorial Fund” with support from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It falls under the German-South African Year of Science 2012/2013.
12 November 2012
On November 13th the German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle opens the new German Science Centre (DWZ) in Cairo. German educational and scientific institutions, such as universities, will join forces through the German Science Centre and deepen their ties to Egyptian researchers and economy
27 Octobre 2012
By joining forces, German science and industry aim to further develop their presence in India and the cooperation with their Indian partners. To this end, the German House of Science and Innovation (DWIH) New Delhi opened in the Indian capital on Saturday 27 October 2012.
5 April 2012
From 13 to 15 April an Alumni meeting of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in partnership with the University of Cape Town will be held in Cape Town under the motto, “Change by Exchange: Higher Education and Research Transformation in South Africa and Germany”. The most prominent guest, German Minister for Education and Research, Professor Annette Schavan will be in attendance.
27 March 2012
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has created a new endowed chair for application-related mathematics with the intention of promoting mathematical teaching and research in Africa. The internationally advertised professorship will reside at the recently founded African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Senegal.
8 March 2012
With its new Georg Forster Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will be honouring four leading researchers of all disciplines from developing and transition countries in 2012 who have achieved international visibility through their previous research and whose work contributes to solving development policy issues.
15 November 2011
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is launching the African-German Network of Excellence in Science (AGNES) in conjunction with researchers from various African countries. Inaugural conference in Addis Ababa with researchers from Africa and Germany from 16 to 18 November 2011
3 November 2011
Humboldt Foundation to strengthen its network and support democratic change in Egypt and Tunisia with funds from the Federal Foreign Office
24 August 2011
42 fellows from 14 different countries to discuss their projects on 29 August
29 July 2011
29 July 2011, No. 23/2011 Researchers from Southeast Asia adopt “Malang Humboldt Resolution” First Humboldt Kolleg in Indonesia to promote networking in Southeast Asia. The Kolleg focused on issues relating to resource conservation, global warming, sustainable energy and healthcare provision.
28 March 2011
Meetings with important stakeholders from the fields of climate protection and resource conservation
23 November 2010
Kolleg of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation strengthens research collaboration in South Asia. The framework for future collaboration is to be the “Kathmandu Humboldt Resolution” which was developed during the conference.
16 November 2010
From 12 to 14 November around 100 Humboldt alumni from seven countries in South East Asia as well as experts from Germany met in Hanoi at the invitation of the Humboldt Foundation: Humboldt Colloquium “Knowledge Creates Development – The Role of The Humboldt Alumni in South East Asia”
26 August 2010
On 30 August, Dipu Moni, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh will visit the Humboldt Foundation in Bonn. The stateswoman is honouring the Foundation for its commitment to research cooperation with Bangladesh and especially to the field of climate protection.
23 August 2010
The first fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s new International Climate Protection Programme start work on their projects in Germany in September. Prospective leaders from developing and emerging countries who work in the field of climate protection or resource conservation can apply for a climate protection fellowship.
8 June 2010
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and CONACYT, the National Council on Science and Technology, have agreed on closer cooperation in Mexico. This has been discussed by the President of the Humboldt Foundation, Helmut Schwarz, and the Vice President of CONACYT, Humboldt Research Award Winner José Antonio de la Peña, during a colloquium organised by the Foundation in Mexico City on 4 to 6 June.
28 September 2009
The battle against environmental problems and climate change is one of the most pressing issues that will face Chinese research in future. This was the message of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s interdisciplinary Humboldt Colloquium which took place in Beijing this weekend, bringing together some 150 researchers, alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, as well as junior researchers from China and experts from Germany.
23 September 2009
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is granting International Climate Protection Fellowships to prospective leaders from threshold and developing countries engaged in climate change and resource conservation, be it in research, business or administration.
06 May 2009
250 academics will be assembling in Amman on 10 and 11 May at the invitation of the Humboldt Foundation and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
18 April 2008
A hundred scientists from developing and threshold countries met in Bonn to discuss what contribution research could make to economic, cultural and academic development in their countries. They called for greater scientific efforts, particularly to help the poorest sections of the population.
08 April 2008
A conference on 17 and 18 April brings together some 130 experts from developing countries and Europe in Germany. It marks the tenth anniversary of the Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme.
05 March 2007
At the regional meetings for its research fellows and award winners in Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, which begin on 5 March, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation wants to strengthen its academic network in Latin America and provide new impulses for German-Latin American research collaboratio
20 November 2006
Together with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has initiated a new fellowship programme for social scientists from Latin America. The Thyssen-Humboldt Short-term Fellowships are designed to intensify academic cooperation with the countries of Latin America in the fields of law, economics and social science and to help reach the academic elite in these countries.
21 July 2006
Knowledge produces development is the idea at the heart of an international meeting of experts run by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation on research cooperation with African countries. About 30 African and German academics as well as experts from research organisations and politics met in Bonn to discuss how more intensive research cooperation might provide an impulse for sustainable development. The results are contained in eleven recommendations entitled, "Knowledge produces Development" which address both German and African actors.
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