Apply now for the Humboldt Alumni Award! Every year, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to three Humboldt Alumni Awards to promote innovative networking initiatives of alumni of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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The Humboldt Academia in Society Summit seeks to generate new ideas on current topics and challenges in civil society from within science.
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A response to the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15): the biogeographer and Humboldtian Tobias Kümmerle on sustainable agriculture and how it can help to conserve biodiversity.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Where we lived was completely cut off from the outside world. There was no electricity and no transport connections.
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As part of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Henriette Herz Scouting Programme, Maren Röger brought Romanian art historian Alexandra Chiriac to Leipzig. With her expertise in popular cultures and performance theory, she now enriches the profile of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO).
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“Better connected!” – the latest issue of the Humboldt Kosmos magazine on how important research networks are for the world during and after the pandemic
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To discover what holds the world together in its innermost core – philosophy seeks to find timeless truths that apply to all people. Today, however, the canon is largely dominated by the thoughts of a few European philosophers. Just how much racism informs their thinking is the issue being explored by Marina Martinez Mateo.
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Using computer simulations, researchers can both predict the climate in the coming decades as well as produce short-term weather forecasts for specific regions. But so far, they are not as precise as they might be. In order to calculate the complex processes in the atmosphere and identify local extreme weather events such as heavy rain at an early stage, enormous computing capacity is required. New supercomputers could provide it. The atmospheric physicist Bjorn Stevens is working on it.
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