Press Releases

More than 600 international researchers to gather in Berlin on 22 and 23 June – Livestream of the opening ceremony with Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier

Meeting with 1,000 international scientists and scholars to be held in digital form for the first time. And will be streamed on YouTube on 24 June 2020.

Berlin, Munich, Göttingen, Bremen and Bonn at the top of the list

Interim assessment draws positive balance and recommends continued funding.

The American microbiologist Bonnie L. Bassler is being honoured for her research on communication between bacteria. Bassler, the 2016 Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award winner, shares the prize with the American microbiologist Michael R. Silverman.

“Building Bridges, Moving Ideas”: Around 150 researchers expected to attend the international inter-disciplinary conference being held from 23 - 24 September

Nr. 10/2019

2026 Humboldt Residency Programme with highly topical focus on political participation

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.