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.
A response to the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) from biogeographer and Humboldtian Tobias Kümmerle
The newly selected winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize include the Humboldtians Largus T. Angenent and Hartmut Rosa.
From 17 to 19 November, 150 researchers from the Japanese Humboldt Network, Japanese junior researchers as well as some of the Foundation’s partners and friends in German academia and politics got together at an online Humboldt Colloquium.
On 29 November, the members of the Humboldt Residency Programme got together for the last public event discussing how social cohesion is experienced and can be conveyed on campus.
Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, on how the science community should deal with China – an opinion piece in the DIE ZEIT newspaper
Sara Fouad, Egyptian professor of architecture, who specialises in waterways regeneration, shares her view on the situation in Egypt and how COP27 could bring much needed change.
“Dwindling resources – growing conflicts”: Report on the 6th Communication Lab (28.–29.10. & 4.–5.11. 2022)
Mayra Flores Tavares, International Climate Protection Fellow from Brazil, shares her hopes for the future of the tropical forests following the victory of Lula da Silva in the Brazilian presidential election.
“We are losing an advantage” - Interview with Antje Schwalb, member of the selection committee
Iran is currently experiencing one of the largest waves of protests in decades. We spoke with the Iranian Humboldtian Raika Khorshidian about different forms of protest, communication channels and the cultural scene’s influence in Iran
The Munich immunologist Julia Jellusova, a new scout in the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme will utilise her own networks to recruit three postdocs for her team.
The best projects from the fifth Communication Lab, “The New Global – cooperation for the future”, were honoured at a virtual award ceremony on 2 September 2022.
Cocoa is a core economic commodity in Ghana. The Ghanaian International Climate Protection Fellow Gabriel Antwi-Boasiako is working on a holistic model to predict the future and development of cocoa cultivation in his home country.
Discover how you can utilise the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme and the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for your international academic collaborations.
After the presence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus was verified in South Africa, eight countries in southern Africa were immediately categorised as an area of variant of concern and travel restrictions were imposed.
Happy reunion: The German Humboldt alumni association met in Tübingen in late October to exchange ideas and share information.
A call for applications for a second German Research Chair to be established at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) Senegal has now been announced.
The Humboldt Foundation invites you to the livestream of an Advent concert on 9 December 2021. Enjoy music by Mozart and Brahms live, performed by members of the Beethoven Orchester Bonn.
The endowment of €500,000 granted by Mr. Winfried Pohl will benefit the promotion of top international research. Here, Mr. Pohl tells us what motivated him to support the Humboldt Foundation.
For the fourth time, the Humboldt Communication Lab (ComLab) brought together ten researchers and ten journalists to share ideas and opinions on current social developments.
With creativity and autonomy, sustainable education can succeed.
The time has come for science diplomacy: support for Belarussian academics is an investment in the future.
Fellows and alumni of the German Chancellor Fellowship will discuss about Building a Common Future, Change of Perspective, and (Un)Harnessing the Internet
Humboldtians from Central and Eastern Europe draw a positive balance following virtual colloquium
Prospective leaders from transition and developing countries can now apply to the International Climate Protection Fellowship Programme.
The best four works of journalism from the third Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes.
