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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation doesn’t only sponsor researchers from abroad; its Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship also enables researchers from Germany up to 12 years after completing their doctorates to spend time working on research elsewhere in the world. Encourage both your young and experienced colleagues to go abroad on the strength of a Feodor Lynen Fellowship!
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How we can have a positive influence on plant development was the field investigated by the biotechnologist and molecular biologist Alba Lloret Compañ during her Humboldt Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. A stay which enabled her to grow personally and advance her scientific career, too.
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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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Your donation to the Humboldt Foundation helps to promote the next generation of outstanding researchers worldwide.
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Enno Aufderheide, Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, on how the science community should deal with China – an opinion piece in the DIE ZEIT newspaper
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Since 2016, the Philipp Schwartz Initiative has enabled German universities and research institutions to host foreign researchers who are threatened by war and persecution in their own countries for a period of two years.
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With a value of ten million euros, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is the most highly-endowed research award in Germany and draws top international researchers to German universities.
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The award was granted to world-class researchers in the humanities and social sciences from abroad whose academic achievements were internationally recognised in their research area. The award winners chose the people with whom they wanted to cooperate in Germany themselves, and their collaborative research lasted up to five years.
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As an international networking organisation connecting outstanding researchers and leaders in all science-related fields around the world, the Humboldt Foundation feels under a special obligation to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We also consider ourselves well-positioned to make a significant contribution to sustainable global development.
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The award is granted to a researcher from abroad with outstanding future potential. The aim is to recruit particularly innovative international researchers to work at German universities and research institutions for a fixed-term period.
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