the Volkswagen Foundation‘s Board of Trustees decided on the succession of Dr. Wilhelm Krull as Secretary General of the Foundation. The Trustees elected Dr. Georg Schütte, currently State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Berlin. Georg Schütte takes up his post on January 1, 2020.
In 2018, the Foundation approved EUR 207.2 million for scientific research projects and events. Compared to 2017, this represents an increase of 30.7% – and is at the same time the second highest funding amount in the history of the Foundation. The focus was on realigning the funding portfolio in order to offer new pathways and more scope for creative research.
At its summer meeting, the Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation elected Dr. Georg Schütte (born 1962) as the new Secretary General. He takes up his post on January 1, 2020, and succeeds Dr. Wilhelm Krull (born 1952)
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.
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.
Göttingen research project "Deep Movement Diagnostics" receives around EUR 1.2 million for the development of three-dimensional reconstructions of movement patterns
Could "solar hydrogen" produced from sunlight serve as energy alternative to oil in the Antarctic? A feasibility study by HZB experts in artificial photosynthesis within the "Experiment!" funding initiative. Next deadline for applications for "Experiment!": July 10, 2019
With the MOONRISE project, the Laser Zentrum Hannover e. V. (LZH) and the Institute of Space Systems (IRAS) of the Technical University of Braunschweig are aiming at melting moon dust with a laser in order to make it usable as building material.
Even though the governments of their home countries are at loggerheads – at New Europe College (NEC), young researchers from all the Black Sea countries work together peacefully on joint projects – and thus fulfill the vision of NEC founder Andrej Plesu.
A dinosaur project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation comes to an end with an unusual approach to communicating its results: A graphic novel based on scientific findings intended to stimulate the imagination of an ecosystem that is 154 million years old.
Robot psychologist Martina Mara puts in a plea for a more visionary approach to robotics and artificial intelligence – and to bridge the gaps between the disciplines. This is also what the Volkswagen Foundation's funding initiative "Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future" stands for, the next application deadline is July 4, 2019.
The international conference on September 5-6, 2019, will review the changes in doctoral education and discuss, enhance, and disseminate future-oriented advancement of doctoral education and related policies. #DocEdu19
Members of the Cluster of Excellence PhoenixD and international experts will discuss future developments in the fields of optical technologies and optics manufacturing in Hannover, on September 25 and 26, 2019.
For a better understanding of the fundamental determinants of susceptibility to infectious diseases experts come together for the first "Hannover Symposium on Infection Susceptibility" on September 30 and October 1, 2019.
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 "Life? - A Fresh Scientific Approach to the Basic Principles of Life". Scientists funded within this initiative will meet in Hanover from December 10 to 11, 2019 to present and discuss their research projects.
Travel Grants available! 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.
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