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Opening event on 13 June 2024 at Ruhr University Bochum as part of Science Year 2024 – Freedom

Germany’s most valuable research award goes to Aachen, Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen.

By creating the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation became Germany’s first research funding organisation to establish a funding programme to protect researchers who are persecuted and at threat. Since its creation, the programme has set a precedent nationally and internationally.

On 23 and 24 June 2021, international researchers will be meeting for the Humboldt Foundation’s virtual Annual Meeting. The opening with Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will be broadcast via livestream.

Germany’s most valuable research award goes to Berlin, Duisburg-Essen, Hamburg, Leipzig and Potsdam.

Germany’s most valuable research award to go to Cologne, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Münster and Tübingen.

A total of 33 scientists and scholars have been chosen in the first selection round by an interdisciplinary committee of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme. These “Humboldt scouts” are to recruit talented researchers from throughout the world for a Humboldt Fellowship.

Certificates to be presented on 20 March during the Research Award Symposium hosted by the Humboldt Foundation in Bamberg

Official award ceremony at symposium of Humboldt Research Award Winners in Bamberg