we gladly introduce nine outstanding researchers, who were selected for a Volkswagen Foundation 'Freigeist' Fellowship. Congratulations! The next deadlines for application are October 10, 2019 and October 15, 2020.
In its funding initiative on artificial intelligence (AI), the Foundation promotes close collaboration between the technical and social sciences in order to enable future-oriented AI research in the interests of society at large. An interview with the initiative's program directors.
The program "Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel" promotes scientifically outstanding collaborative projects conducted jointly by researchers from Israel and Lower Saxony. Deadline for the current call adressing natural sciences, mathematics and engineering sciences is October 24, 2019.
Nine young researchers have now convinced the Volkswagen Foundation's international panel of experts and board of trustees with their unconventional projects: they receive a 'Freigeist' Fellowship that gives them maximum freedom and a clear time perspective for their research.
Ethical aspects are rarely considered when it comes to the design and the programming of a robot. This is where Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, is stepping in.
The Volkswagen Foundation is Germany‘s largest private research funding foundation, and one of the country’s largest common benefit foundations under private law. Who established the foundation? What do we fund and how do we work? Our new video gives the answers.
Different concepts of interdisciplinarity and the potential of interdisciplinary research for higher education will be discussed by international experts on October 3-4, 2019, in Berlin.
The relations between climate extremes and sustainable development goals will be discussed at the Herrenhausen Conference on October 9-11, 2019, in Hannover, Germany.
The symposium will be held in the framework of the Foundation's funding initiative "Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future". Researchers funded within this initiative will meet in Hanover from November 7 to 8, 2019 to present and discuss their projects.
From 23 to 25 March 2020, experts from Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Great Britain will meet for a Herrenhausen Symposium at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover to discuss the issue of reusing church buildings for the first time from a European comparative view. The intention is to develop new perspectives.
International experts will discuss the influence of the New Silk Road on the academic relations between China and Europe at a Herrenhausen Conference in Hanover, on May 13-15, 2020.
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