Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
On no account a monoculture
In the German science system, opportunities are not fairly distributed. It is time for change. By Jan-Martin Wiarda
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
In the German science system, opportunities are not fairly distributed. It is time for change. By Jan-Martin Wiarda
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
My story begins four years ago. Three things happened in my life all at once: I was offered a new job at my university in Kenya, I was granted a fellowship by the Humboldt Foundation and I discovered I was pregnant. What to do?
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Even as a child I used to ask myself how people in different societies lived together and why things in other countries were so different from what I was used to in the UK.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Where we lived was completely cut off from the outside world. There was no electricity and no transport connections.
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Recently, it was the 30th anniversary of my accident. I have now been in a wheelchair for almost twice as long as I was able to walk.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Dr Serge Alain Fobofou Tanemossu earned his doctorate in chemistry at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
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Why science needs more diversity
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News
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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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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Press Release
A total of 33 scientists and scholars have been chosen in the first selection round by an interdisciplinary committee of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme. These “Humboldt scouts” are to recruit talented researchers from throughout the world for a Humboldt Fellowship.
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