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.
Over the last five years, 280 at-risk researchers have been able to continue their work at German research institutes as Philipp Schwartz Fellows. Programme coordinator Frank Albrecht on the challenges involved in making a new start in Germany.
The Humboldt Foundation congratulates its former president, Helmut Schwarz, on being selected to receive the 2021 Leonardo da Vinci Award from the European Academy of Sciences.
László Lovász has been chosen to receive one of the most important international research awards for mathematics.
The benefit of knowledge exchange: Alexander von Humboldt Professor Peter Dayan on how he wants to link machine learning with psychiatry resesarch.
For the first time, 33 Humboldt Scouts have embarked on a search for research fellows for their respective teams and the Humboldt Foundation’s network of excellence. Here, two of these scouts report on how they go about their search for talent.
What is day-to-day research like in times of pandemic? In our series Science Selfies, Humboldtians from various African countries are allowing us to look behind the scenes in their offices and labs. In video diaries they describe the challenges they face and how they master difficulties. Francine Ntoumi from the Republic of Congo launches the series.
Molecular chemist Florian Mulks had planned his stay in the USA in 2020 as a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow. Then the corona pandemic came. But a solution was found in the Humboldt Network.
The best three works of journalism from the second round of the Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each.
In early January, Turkey’s President Erdoğan appointed a new rector at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Since then, the campus has seen protests, violence and arrests. Comments on this from the Humboldt Network
The Corona pandemic forces us all to keep our distance and robs us of things that define what we are: human closeness and social interaction. German Chancellor Fellow Diana Raiselis is working on sustainable concepts for reviving nighttime culture.
An exceptional year with exceptional challenges comes to an end. Our Best of Videos 2020 will get you an idea of what has been going on in the last year.
Foundation President Hans-Christian Pape to discuss science diplomacy at the invitation of the Federal Foreign Office. Online conference will begin at 11 am on Tuesday, 15 December 2020, as a livestream event.
