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70 years of the Humboldt Foundation and happy birthday, Alexander von Humboldt! Today we celebrate our namesake's birthday! His pioneering spirit and creativity inspire our work every day. #AvHWhatsNext

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Today with DAAD at the Futurium! We talk about Academia in Exile with fantastic and brave researchers, #Humboldtian Tatiana Shchyttsova, #SchwartzInitiative Fellow Azadeh Ganjeh and Hilde Domin Fellow Nickey Diamond.

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Research Collaborations in Transition

At the Humboldt Colloquium in Rome, some 300 researchers from five countries will discuss the opportunities offered by and challenges involved in science.

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Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023

Rotem Sorek receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023 and Amy Buck and Kandice Tanner are honoured with Max Planck-Humboldt Medals

Portraits  Kandice Tanner, Rotem Sorek, Amy Buck

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What a wonderful evening! In Humboldt's tradition of the Berlin Kosmos Lectures, we welcomed more than 300 guests at our summer reception yesterday!

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#AvHWhatsNext? Heading into the future with Humboldt

A spirit of discovery, creativity and global exchange drive the world forward. Whether we are thinking of securing democracy, fighting climate change or containing pandemics – science and research contribute to finding solutions for the future.

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Our Precious Resources

The 2023 Humboldt Residency Programme revolves around the subject: Our Precious Resources: Pathways to a Secure and Sustainable Future.

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Research Collaborations in Transition

At the Humboldt Colloquium in Rome, some 300 researchers from five countries will discuss the opportunities offered by and challenges involved in science.

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Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023

Rotem Sorek receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2023 and Amy Buck and Kandice Tanner are honoured with Max Planck-Humboldt Medals

Portraits  Kandice Tanner, Rotem Sorek, Amy Buck

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Freedom and autonomy of science and research in Israel

Scientific collaboration with Israel, a leading nation in research and innovation, is essential to us. In the light of decades of inspiring intellectual exchange and the special relationship between research organizations in our countries, we feel compelled to take a stand on recent developments that can negatively affect international cooperation.

We share concers of our colleagues and friends in Israel that the current judicial reform plans endanger academic freedom. Joint declaration of six research organisations.

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@AvHStiftung

70 years of the Humboldt Foundation and happy birthday, Alexander von Humboldt! Today we celebrate our namesake's birthday! His pioneering spirit and creativity inspire our work every day. #AvHWhatsNext

@AvHStiftung

Today with DAAD at the Futurium! We talk about Academia in Exile with fantastic and brave researchers, #Humboldtian Tatiana Shchyttsova, #SchwartzInitiative Fellow Azadeh Ganjeh and Hilde Domin Fellow Nickey Diamond.

@AvHStiftung

What a wonderful evening! In Humboldt's tradition of the Berlin Kosmos Lectures, we welcomed more than 300 guests at our summer reception yesterday!

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Our Climate Protection Fellowship for young leaders and postdocs from transition/developing countries is open for applications! Want to learn more about the process and how to best prepare? Join our zoom info event on 22 August, 1:30 pm (CEST)!

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Africa has been portrayed in most media as exotic, poor and sick,” says film scholar Ezinne Ezepue. How her research helps develop high-quality African stories and more differentiated images of Africa. 

Title page Kosmos 115 in English. The picture shows a child looking through a door gap into a bright room.

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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President Robert Schlögl
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President Robert Schlögl
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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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Study: Germany from the outside 2023

Academic life, living conditions and personal relations: following their stay in Germany, Humboldt Foundation sponsorship-recipients evaluate living and working in the country. We have evaluated the feedback provided by more than 1,800 visiting researchers from 119 countries who worked at German universities and research institutions between August 2018 and May 2022.

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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

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.

Cover of the Humboldt Foundation’s Sustainability Agenda: "Sustainably crafting excellent connections"
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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.