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Ten top international researchers – including one Nobel laureate – to receive Germany’s most valuable research award

Robert Schlögl, Director at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin, and at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, will take office on 1 January 2023.

Federal Minister of Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger and the President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Hans-Christian Pape presented the Alexander von Humboldt Professorships, Germany’s most valuable research award.

Experts and researchers who have fled their country have gathered at the Philipp Schwartz and Inspireurope Stakeholder Forum that was held on 10 and 11 May in Berlin and online. The event has jointly been organised by the Humboldt Foundation’s Philipp Schwartz Initiative and the InSPIREurope project. In addition to examining the situation of researchers from Ukraine and Afghanistan, the conference focussed on the specific working conditions of persecuted researchers and how researchers in exile enrich scientific communities.

The Alliance of German Science Organisations strongly supports responsible and quality-oriented research assessment and comments on the Initiative of the European Commission.

Germany’s best-endowed international research awards will be presented in person in 2022 once more. The event will be broadcast live.

Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation met at the University of Rostock from 27 to 29 April.

With the virtual launch of the Humboldt Residency Programme on 6 April, the Humboldt Foundation sets an example for international solidarity.

Willingness on the part of the German science system to help researchers from Ukraine is substantial, as is the number of scientists and scholars who have fled the war-stricken country. In light of the war in Ukraine, the Humboldt Foundation is calling for additional financial support from the political sector so that it can provide appropriate help in this situation as well.

Approximately 40 displaced scholars and scientists to quickly receive assistance. The Carl Zeiss Foundation and the research publishing company Springer Nature Group have contributed a total of €750,000 to finance the Philipp Schwartz Emergency Fund for researchers who have recently fled Ukraine.