Press Releases

The new edition of our Foundation’s magazine Humboldt Kosmos highlights colonial continuities and visions for fair cooperation.

The Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany welcomes the fact that the bill submitted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to revise the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act has adjusted the key features formulated in March and that the insights gained during the stakeholder discussions held by the ministry since March have been incorporated into the bill.

Artificial intelligence will revolutionise tomorrow’s world. It has already started today. At the Humboldt Academia in Society Summit on 21 June in Berlin, eminent AI researchers and civil society actors will discuss the ethical, social and legal challenges associated with these developments.

Hans-Christian Pape decorated for his achievements as a researcher and his engagement for science policy

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.

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

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

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.