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Woman in front of a shelf with records
Story Mar. 16, 2023

Supporting Science in Sub-Saharan Africa: Saving people and sounds from being forgotten

Lizabé Lambrechts researches South African popular music from the apartheid era 

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Frau in einem Museumsarchiv mit großformatigen Gemälden
Story Feb. 16, 2023

Provenance Research: The Stories Behind the Things

Diving into archives, tracing the migration of museum objects through time and contexts – this is how provenance researcher Claudia Andratschke describes her work. A portrait.

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Funding offer Feb. 23, 2023

New funding offer "Earth System Sciences"

Universities in Germany with a geoscience focus can apply for one to two junior tenure-track professorships. Deadline is Nov. 15, 2023.

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Funding offer Aug. 23, 2022

Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown

With the program "Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown", the Foundation supports groundbreaking and risky research ideas with high scientific relevance. Apply anytime

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Funding offer Aug. 16, 2022

Pioneering projects "Societal Transformations"

The funding offer is aimed at scientists from all disciplines who develop research projects that result in transformation knowledge. Apply anytime

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Speere in einem afrikanischen Weizenfeld
Story Aug. 09, 2022

The challenge of dealing with colonial exhibits

Provenance research contributes towards a new understanding of collecting, researching, preserving, and presenting ethnographic objects. 

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Funding offer Aug. 01, 2022

Opus Magnum

"Opus Magnum" offers outstanding professors from the humanities and social sciences the opportunity to write a larger scientific work, relieved by a teaching substitution. Deadline: February 1, 2023

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Rhine Ruhr Center
Story Jul. 12, 2022

Exploring science communication: The RRC

Disinformation, media fragmentation, instrumentalization of science – how can the facticity crisis be countered? One of the central research questions at the Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research (RRC).

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Funding offer Jul. 06, 2022

Perspectives on Wealth: The (Re-)Production of Wealth

With the funding initiative 'Perspectives on Wealth', the Volkswagen Foundation aims to initiate a shift of perspective from poverty research to facets surrounding the phenomenon of wealth. A new call is planned for spring 2023.

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