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      Virtual Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium: Networks for a post-Covid era

      What role will science play as a catalyser for progress in the post-Covid-19 era? What research topics will drive our work? These are the questions that will be examined by top researchers from the African network at the Humboldt Foundation’s Sub-Saharan Africa Colloquium being held on 30 and 31 March 2022. Here, we present four outstanding individuals and their work.

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      Where the wild bees are

      No one knows yet how the pandemic will impact the careers of young researchers. In this three-part series, we profile Feodor Lynen Research Fellows and show how they are dealing with the challenges facing them.

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      Winners of the fourth Communication Lab honoured

      The four best works from the fourth round of the Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media were recently awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes at an award ceremony held on 4 March 2022.

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      Support for science

      The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a legally responsible foundation under private law and promotes excellent research worldwide. The Foundation chiefly finances its expenditure on the basis of grants from the Federal Government and the European Union. However, the Foundation’s funding is also secured by private endowments. Mr. Winfried Pohl's endowment of €500,000 will benefit the promotion of top international research. Here, Mr. Pohl, an expert in the field of thermal engineering, tells us what motivated him to support the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

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    • A name to conjure with

      Few figures in history have had so many landmarks or discoveries named after them. The memory of Alexander von Humboldt is kept alive not only in his anniversary year of 2019 but also in atlases and encyclopaedias. His name even crops up in outer space.

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      A name to conjure with
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      How do you make professional musicians fit to play again, Ms Ackermann?

      Suddenly, your fingers start to cramp up while playing or your facial muscles stop doing the things they have done thousands of times before. Dystonia is a neurological disorder which usually expresses itself in muscle cramps and uncontrollable movements.

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      How do you make professional musicians fit to play again, Ms Ackermann?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Humboldt Professor Burkhard Rost

      Curiosity is what drives him – “and the fascination with all the things we still don’t know about biology”. His goal: a bridge between medicine and biosciences.

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      Humboldt Professor Burkhard Rost