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      Call for participation

      International research stays – what interests and wishes do postdocs have?

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    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Can AI save our cities from traffic jams, Ms Salim?

      Apps are already calculating the ideal route through cities – using various means of transport and taking account of traffic disruption. But the apps are supposed to become even smarter.

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      Can AI save our cities from traffic jams, Ms Salim?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Can AI unite the world, Mr Sharma?

      Artificial intelligence can boost development in poor countries and promote international cooperation when language barriers fall. Gaurav Sharma from India is exploring the regulatory hurdles that have to be overcome for this to happen.

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      Can AI unite the world, Mr Sharma?
    • Magazine Humboldt Kosmos

      Can we ensure justice for indigenous groups, Ms Ochoa Jiménez?

      Some are replicas, many were looted, some were given away: during the colonial era, countless international cultural objects crossed national borders. How we should deal with these objects today is the subject of controversial debate. Venezuelan legal scholar María Julia Ochoa Jiménez argues for respecting the interests of the Indigenous groups that once produced the objects.

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      Can we ensure justice for indigenous groups, Ms Ochoa Jiménez?
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      Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award

      • For whom: internationally recognised academics from STEM fields
      • From: all countries (excluding Germany)
      • What:  100,000 EUR in award money (research stay of up to 12 months in Germany possible)
      Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award

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    • News

      Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award goes to Alexej Jerschow

      Beginning in 2022, the Humboldt Foundation is presenting an annual award funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The chemist Alexej Jerschow from New York University was chosen to receive the first Carl-Zeiss-Humboldt Research Award which will be presented to him at a formal ceremony held on 28 June 2023 as part of the Humboldt Foundation’s Annual Meeting in Berlin.

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    • News

      Charity alone is not the solution

      Sara Fouad, Egyptian professor of architecture, who specialises in waterways regeneration, shares her view on the situation in Egypt and how COP27 could bring much needed change.

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    • Christopher Barner-Kowollik

      The research conducted by the chemist and materials scientist Christopher Barner-Kowollik facilitates the development of high-precision materials and surfaces for specific applications in medicine, nanotechnology and materials development. He is invited to continue his work on new materials and polymer-based systems at KIT.

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      Christopher Barner-Kowollik