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Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Organization
Type Government agency
Focus Research
Country
    City Bonn
    Websites

    The Alexander von Humbolt foundation (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in German) is a foundation that offers flexible sponsorship programs for researchers at all stages of their careers. Its research fellowships and awards enable outstanding scientists and scholars from abroad to complete long-term research stays in Germany. It offers German research scientists and scholars an opportunity carry out a research project abroad as a guest of one of more than 24,000 Humboldt Foundation alumni worldwide. It also promotes international cultural dialogue and academic exchange.[1]

    The foundation’s alumni network unites well over 26,000 Humboldtians in more than 140 countries worldwide, including 51 Nobel Prize winners (2015)[2]

    Funding

    Alexander von Humbolt receives most of its funding from the following institutes;

    References

    1. https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/about-us.html About the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, Retrieved 3rd July 2016
    2. http://www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-funding/funding-organisations/alexander-von-humboldt-foundation.html About Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, Retrieved 3rd July 2016