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“The Humboldt Professorship is an investment in the future”
9/2026
Humboldt Foundation President Robert Schlögl and Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär confer Germany’s most valuable international research awards.
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9/2026
Humboldt Foundation President Robert Schlögl and Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär confer Germany’s most valuable international research awards.
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8/2026
Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär will present Germany’s most valuable international research awards.
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The Argentinian researcher and former Humboldt Research Fellow Paula Tribelli knew from an early age which career path she wanted to pursue: a career in microbiology, with a focus on infections. Despite numerous challenges, she managed to make her dream a reality.
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On 9 and 10 April, some 370 people got together at the Philipp Schwartz Forum in Berlin. On the occasion of the programme’s tenth anniversary, experts from academia, administration and the political arena discussed the challenges facing academic freedom as well as measures to protect researchers at risk.
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7/2026
Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will meet at the University of Tübingen from 22 to 24 April.
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Eighty participants from Latin America and Germany discussed international scientific collaboration and science diplomacy in Chile.
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From neolithic graves to Byzantine inscriptions, from the Pillars of Hercules to Babylon – all this is subsumed under “Ancient Cultures.” But who deals with applications for topics like these, and who is responsible for them at the Foundation? The Ancient Cultures team introduces itself and its work.
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The Humboldt Foundation is realigning the Georg Forster Fellowship Programme: Due to budget cuts and changing framework conditions, the programme cannot continue in its current format; a new funding scheme for researchers from developing and emerging countries is being designed.
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Outstanding researchers abroad remain at the heart of the Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme – now with adjustments to the admission criteria. New elements include stricter regulations for previous stays in Germany and a focus on Principal Investigators with their own research groups in the programme line for experienced researchers.
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