Anan Alsheikh Haidar fled Syria in 2013. Her work as a professor of criminal law at the University of Damascus had put her name on the blacklist of Bashar al-Assad's government. With a fellowship of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, she came to the University of Cologne.
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Science communication has penetrated the awareness of research, politics and society. At the same time, the pressure on researchers to make their outcomes accessible to the public at large has grown. During the summer school “Communicating Science”, 50 junior researchers from 26 countries worked together to elaborate recommendations for action.
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With the virtual launch of the Humboldt Residency Programme on 6 April, the Humboldt Foundation sets an example for international solidarity.
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Andrea Wulf has written numerous books, including “The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World” which became a bestseller in 2015. Her latest work “The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt” is an illustrated biography documenting the explorer’s great journey through South America (1799 – 1804).
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A selection of Climate Protection Fellows Below, you can get to know a selection of seven IKS fellows who have impressed us with their research ideas and personal perspectives. Each portrait offers a
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In 2023, the Humboldt Foundation celebrates the 70th anniversary of its establishment. In a time of upheaval and change, rather than look back and take stock, we want to look ahead. So, in the Foundation’s jubilee year, we are asking “What’s next?” – in visual terms, too.
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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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From 17 to 19 November, 150 researchers from the Japanese Humboldt Network, Japanese junior researchers as well as some of the Foundation’s partners and friends in German academia and politics got together at an online Humboldt Colloquium.
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The Argentinian historian Walter Ludovico Koppmann is working at the Lateinamerika-Institut in Berlin on the Jewish working class in Buenos Aires. A narrative with links to the present and to his own roots.
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Dr Ángela Mouriz García, neurophysiologist, medical pioneer in Spain and former Humboldt Fellow, celebrated her 100th birthday on 22 May. The Humboldt Foundation extends its congratulations!
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