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Completed Initiatives
Completed Initiatives
Thematic Week: Failure matters – Dimensions of 'Failure' in Science
(completed:
Jun 2022
)
Funding for Refugee Scholars and Scientists from Ukraine (closed)
(completed:
Apr 2022
)
Innovative Approaches to Antiviral Drug Development (completed)
(completed:
Feb 2022
)
Between Europe and the Orient – A Focus on Research and Higher Education in/on Central Asia and the Caucasus (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2021
)
Knowledge for Tomorrow – Cooperative Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2021
)
Change of Course – Exploring New Research Territories between the Life Sciences and Science or Engineering (completed)
(completed:
Jun 2021
)
'Freigeist' Fellowships (completed)
(completed:
Apr 2021
)
World Knowledge – Structural Support for "Rare Subjects" (completed)
(completed:
Apr 2021
)
'Mixed Methods' in the Humanities? (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2020
)
Experiment! – In search of bold research ideas (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2020
)
Off the Beaten Track (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2020
)
University of the Future (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2020
)
Corona Crisis and Beyond – Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2020
)
Funding for Refugee Scholars and Scientists from Afghanistan (closed)
(completed:
Dec 2020
)
Life? – A Fresh Scientific Approach to the Basic Principles of Life (completed)
(completed:
Jun 2020
)
Global Issues – Integrating Different Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and Change (completed)
(completed:
Jun 2020
)
Science Communication Cubed – Science of Science Communication Centers
(completed:
Mar 2020
)
Global Issues – Integrating Different Perspectives on Social Inequality (completed)
(completed:
Jan 2020
)
Global Issues: Mobility – Global Medicine and Health Research (completed)
(completed:
Jan 2020
)
Trilateral Partnerships – Cooperation Projects between Scholars and Scientists from Ukraine, Russia and Germany (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2019
)
Post-doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities at Universities and Research Institutes in the U.S. and Germany (completed)
(completed:
May 2019
)
Lichtenberg Professorships (terminated) (Please note the new funding offer "Lichtenberg Endowed Professorships")
(completed:
Jan 2018
)
Niedersächsisches Vorab: Science and Scholarship for Sustainable Development (completed)
(completed:
Jan 2018
)
Research in Museums (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2017
)
Europe and Global Challenges (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2017
)
Humanities, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences and Professional Practice in Graduate Education (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2017
)
International Research in Computational Social Sciences (completed)
(completed:
Jan 2017
)
Science and Data-Driven Journalism (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2016
)
Support for Europe (completed)
(completed:
Jun 2016
)
New Conceptual Approaches to Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems (completed)
(completed:
Jun 2016
)
Experience of Violence, Trauma Relief and Commemorative Culture – Cooperative Research Projects on the Arab Region (completed)
(completed:
Apr 2016
)
"Deutsch plus" – A Program for Multilingualism in Teaching and Research (completed)
(completed:
Mar 2016
)
Arts and Science in Motion – Wissenschaft und Kunst in Bewegung (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2015
)
Integration of Molecular Components in Functional Macroscopic Systems (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2015
)
Free-Electron Laser Science: Peter Paul Ewald Fellowships at LCLS in Stanford (completed)
(completed:
Jun 2015
)
Key Issues for Academia and Society (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2014
)
European Platform for Life Sciences, Mind Sciences, and the Humanities (completed)
(completed:
Nov 2014
)
State, Society, and Economy in Change – Multilateral-Cooperative Research Projects on the Arab World (completed)
(completed:
Mar 2014
)
Documentation of Endangered Languages (completed)
(completed:
Mar 2013
)
Focus on the Humanities (completed)
(completed:
Jul 2012
)
Schumpeter Fellowships (completed)
(completed:
Mar 2012
)
Evolutionary Biology (completed)
(completed:
Mar 2012
)
Future Issues of our Society (completed)
(completed:
Oct 2010
)
Innovative Methods for the Manufacturing of Multifunctional Surfaces (completed)
(completed:
Dec 2008
)
Unity amidst Variety? Intellectual Foundations and Requirements for an Enlarged Europe (completed)
(completed:
Aug 2007
)
Interplay between Molecular Conformations and Biological Function (completed)
(completed:
Sep 2006
)
Innovation Processes in Economy and Society (completed)
(completed:
Aug 2006
)
