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The best three works of journalism from the first round of the Communication Lab for Exchange between Research and Media have been awarded €500 each by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the International Journalists’ Programmes organisation.
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The meeting of fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – originally scheduled to be held in Halle – will be conducted digitally on 18 and 19 November with the assistance of Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
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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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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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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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The Corona pandemic has changed the world. With its projects and focus areas in 2021, the Foundation want to better exploit its potential and create the preconditions for successful work in the future.
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The Corona pandemic forces us all to keep our distance and robs us of things that define what we are: human closeness and social interaction. German Chancellor Fellow Diana Raiselis is working on sustainable concepts for reviving nighttime culture.
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