Newsletter April 2021
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The meeting of fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - originally scheduled to be held in Rostock - was held digitally on 21 and 22 April with the assistance of the University of Rostock.
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How are Humboldtians doing in Myanmar? “The situation is getting worse day by day”, writes the Humboldtian Chaw Pa Pa Oo from Yangon in an appeal for solidarity from Germany and the international community.
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In early January, Turkey’s President Erdoğan appointed a new rector at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Since then, the campus has seen protests, violence and arrests. Comments on this from the Humboldt Network
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How are people around the world dealing with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic? To answer this question, the Humboldt Professor Anke Hoeffler and her colleagues Tilman Brück from the International Security and Development Center in Berlin and Patricia Justino from the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research in Helsinki, Finland, spent the six months since March 2020 gathering data on how people are dealing with this crisis. Nearly 12,000 people from more than 130 countries have completed the Life with Corona questionnaire. The international research group recently presented its initial findings.
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Seven international researchers to develop new research groups in Germany
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The International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation met with science experts from Germany and abroad on 8 and 9 December to discuss the effects and potential of global networks.
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The Humboldtian Markus Reichstein to receive the 2020 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize valued at €2.5 million.
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“Bonds of Trust - Shaping the Sino-German Research Network of the Future” is the theme of the Humboldt Colloquium being held in Beijing from 24 to 26 October. The conference will be attended by some 240 researchers from the Humboldt Foundation’s network plus guests from research institutes and research funding bodies.
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