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Why the Humboldt Foundation is like Coca-Cola... In the new Humboldt Kosmos Magazine, we explore the formula for success from 70 years of the Foundation and take a look into the future. #AvHWhatsNext

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"Human rights and freedom of science cannot be selective. They should be there for everyone. #Afghanistan should not be forgotten," as legal scholar Suhailah Akbari made clear at the #SchwartzInitiative and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum. #ResearchersAtRisk #AcademicFreedom

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“Europe must invest in AI – now”

Humboldt Professor Holger Hoos is one of the signatories to an open letter from the Future of Life Institute that calls for a moratorium on the development of AI. In this interview he explains his motivation and his hopes for the future of AI research in Europe.

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Verifying diversity strategies

On 2 March 2023, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, together with the British Council and Fulbright Germany, held a panel discussion on the interaction between diversity and excellence.

Teilnehmende an der Veranstaltung „Diversity drives excellence: Rethinking academic potential in higher education“

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Why the Humboldt Foundation is like Coca-Cola... In the new Humboldt Kosmos Magazine, we explore the formula for success from 70 years of the Foundation and take a look into the future. #AvHWhatsNext

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"Human rights and freedom of science cannot be selective. They should be there for everyone. #Afghanistan should not be forgotten," as legal scholar Suhailah Akbari made clear at the #SchwartzInitiative and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum. #ResearchersAtRisk #AcademicFreedom

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What is the next big thing in science and how to communicate it? Coming Up: Our 7th #ResearchComLab with #Humboldtian|s, journalists from #IJP and amazing speakers.

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"The most interesting scientific mystery is how the brain works." Angela Yu works on computational modelling of human cognition. On 11 May, she will be awarded the Humboldt Professorship in Berlin. #AvHProfessor

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Humboldt Kosmos – the Humboldt Foundation’s magazine

What are Humboldtians around the world working on? What are the issues in science, diplomacy and international affairs that move us? We report in our magazine.

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Humboldtian and Nobel laureate

The Foundation maintains an interdisciplinary network of well over 30,000 Humboldtians in more than 140 countries around the world – including 59 Nobel Prize winners.

 

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Secretary General Enno Aufderheide (Photo: Humboldt Foundation/Michael Jordan)
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Fellows at the annual meeting in Berlin (Photo: Humboldt Foundation/David Ausserhofer)
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The Humboldt Foundation in Bonn (Photo: Humboldt Foundation/Michael Jordan)
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Fellows at the annual meeting in Berlin (Photo: Humboldt Foundation/David Ausserhofer)
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Fellows at the annual meeting in Berlin (Photo: Humboldt Foundation/David Ausserhofer)
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Humboldt Professorships 2009-2024

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Alexander von Humboldt Professorship

With a value of five million euros, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most highly-endowed research award in Germany and draws top international researchers to German universities.

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Anneliese Maier Research Award

The award was granted to world-class researchers in the humanities and social sciences from abroad whose academic achievements were internationally recognised in their research area. The award winners chose the people with whom they wanted to cooperate in Germany themselves, and their collaborative research lasted up to five years.

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Research Cooperation with Developing Countries

The Humboldt Foundation supports developing and threshold countries in their endeavours to promote junior researchers and international networking as well as developing their own functioning science systems. For in a globalised world, a country’s prospects for growth, affluence and social harmony are inextricably bound up with scientific and technical progress.

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Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award

The award is granted to a researcher from abroad with outstanding future potential. The aim is to recruit particularly innovative international researchers to work at German universities and research institutions for a fixed-term period.

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Diversity

Promoting diversity is one of the Humboldt Foundation’s key objectives and an integral part of the Foundation’s strategy. The long-term aim is to give clear impetus to the topic of diversity in science. At the same time, the Foundation is working on systematically extending various diversity aspects in its own portfolio.

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Sustainability

As an international networking organisation connecting outstanding researchers and leaders in all science-related fields around the world, the Humboldt Foundation feels under a special obligation to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We also consider ourselves well-positioned to make a significant contribution to sustainable global development.

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Philipp Schwartz Initiative

Since 2016, the Philipp Schwartz Initiative has enabled German universities and research institutions to host foreign researchers who are threatened by war and persecution in their own countries for a period of two years.

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Sofja Kovalevskaja Award

The award allows outstanding junior researchers to build up a working group at a research institution in Germany and to spend five years working there on their own research project.

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Science Communication

From events discussing and sharing ideas to dedicated training sessions and workshops: the Humboldt Foundation is committed to opening science and research to a broad public audience.