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"If water is life and wetlands are a main source of water, it is safe to say wetlands are the key to life." #Humboldtian Adam Ceesay helps communities in Senegambia that are most vulnerable to the impacts of Climate Change. #WorldWaterDay

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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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Humboldt Foundation with a new corporate design

In 2023, the Humboldt Foundation celebrates the 70th anniversary of its establishment. So, in the Foundation’s jubilee year, we are asking “What’s next?” – in visual terms, too.

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Why are there still so many hurdles for #WomenInScience? What can we do to promote #ProgressDiversity in academia? Humboldt Professor Catherina Becker told us.

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Our very own #AvHProfessor|in Catherina Becker at the symposium on #ProgressDiversity in academia: "If it's not coming from the leadership, there will be no change. Don't put the burden on people who are in a weaker position anyway."

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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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Humboldt Foundation with a new corporate design

In 2023, the Humboldt Foundation celebrates the 70th anniversary of its establishment. So, in the Foundation’s jubilee year, we are asking “What’s next?” – in visual terms, too.

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ComLab#6: Winners chosen

On 20 January 2023, the four best projects from the sixth virtual Communication Lab on “Resource Scarcity” were honoured.

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Future-proofing the Foundation!

At the turn of the year, Hans-Christian Pape’s term in office as President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, that he assumed in 2018, comes to an end. The Foundation would like to thank the outgoing President for his commitment in turbulent times.

Pressemitteilungen

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2022 Reimar Lüst Awards

Honours for outstanding research on Franco-German history and in neuropsychology

Porträts v. l. n. r.: Hélène Miard-Delacroix, Patrick Haggard

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"If water is life and wetlands are a main source of water, it is safe to say wetlands are the key to life." #Humboldtian Adam Ceesay helps communities in Senegambia that are most vulnerable to the impacts of Climate Change. #WorldWaterDay

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Why are there still so many hurdles for #WomenInScience? What can we do to promote #ProgressDiversity in academia? Humboldt Professor Catherina Becker told us.

@AvHStiftung

Our very own #AvHProfessor|in Catherina Becker at the symposium on #ProgressDiversity in academia: "If it's not coming from the leadership, there will be no change. Don't put the burden on people who are in a weaker position anyway."

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Free speech vs. fake news: New study finds that the majority of people support taking action to stop spread of harmful misinformation online. With #Humboldtian Stephan Lewandowsky from Bristol University as co-author.

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Coming from a farming family with 12 children and with a maths teacher who treated her with contempt because she was a girl, Humboldtian Urmila Pyakurel didn't have an easy path into academia. But she succeeded! #WomenInScience #February11

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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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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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Humboldt Professorships 2009-2023

Downloads of film portraits and photos of the award winners

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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.