Press Releases

The Foundation takes a clear stance against right-wing extremism and racism. It is appalled by the displacement plans uncovered in January by the investigative network Correctiv.

The historian Kateřina Čapková and the literary scholar Bala Venkat Mani receive this year’s Reimar Lüst Awards.

Guillermo Wilde (Argentina) and Nousheen Zaidi (Pakistan) to receive the Georg Forster Research Award that comes with €60,000 for each.

About 100 researchers from all disciplines will get together in San Francisco at the invitation of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation from 29 February to 2 March.

Some 100 researchers from southern Africa and Germany to gather in Pretoria, South Africa, from 6 to 8 March.

Some 80 researchers from Latin America and Germany will gather in Santiago de Chile from 26 to 28 March.

“Better connected!” – the latest issue of the Humboldt Kosmos magazine on how important research networks are for the world during and after the pandemic

Humboldt Professors for AI make recommendations to German government.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society are this year honoring three scientists who have achieved extraordinary things at the boundaries of law, political science, and history.