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Germany’s most valuable research award to go to Dresden, Düsseldorf, Heidelberg and Tübingen.

No. 23/2019

“Generous research funding is a German trademark. We cannot let up in our efforts to invest in science and scholarship”, Robert Schlögl, President of the Humboldt Foundation, said at the award ceremony for the Alexander von Humboldt Professorships in Berlin.

Berlin, Karlsruhe, Konstanz and Munich top the rankings.

With its new programme, the Humboldt Foundation connects experts from academia, media and civil society on the subject of social cohesion. The programme kick-off will be on 6 April 2022. Journalists are welcome to attend.

A reliable database is key to successfully developing the internationality of a university. The new indicator portal “HSI Monitor – Profile Data on the Internationality of Universities” enables universities in Germany to access a multitude of internationalisation indicators. The portal is a joint project of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Humboldt Foundation and Carl Zeiss Foundation launch cooperation with the Carl Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award which comes with €100,000.

In the second round of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme, a further 23 scouts, including 10 female researchers, were chosen to recruit talented individuals for the Humboldt Network. A total of 99 applications from 47 institutions were submitted. The selections made during this round included two scouts each from Universität Hamburg, LMU Munich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to Humboldtian Emmanuelle Charpentier.

This year’s prize is also being awarded in equal parts to Moungi G. Bawendi, who serves as a host in the Humboldt Network, and Louis E. Brus.