Young leaders from South Africa wanted! 🇿🇦🇩🇪 For the first time we invite you to apply for our 12-month German
#ChancellorFellow
|ship to conduct a socially-relevant project in Germany. Deadline: 15 October.
Domestic violence, in particular, affects women and children disproportionately.
@AnkeHoeffler
studies the causes of violence – whether in civil wars or people’s own homes.
#ProgressDiversity
#AvHProfessor
Die Humboldt-Stiftung fordert, die vom Bundeskabinett beschlossenen Budget-Kürzungen zurückzunehmen.
Es drohen:
- 30 % weniger Stipendien
- Stopp der Forschungshubs in Afrika
- Schmerzhafte Einschnitte bei der Unterstützung von bedrohten Forschenden
Hello,
#SouthAfrica
👏! Young leaders from 🇿🇦 now have the opportunity to spend a year in Germany 🇩🇪. Design a project, find a host and apply for our German
#ChancellorFellow
|ship. Deadline: 15 October
„Die Maschine schlug für Leitungspositionen nur Männer vor.“ Da Algorithmen mit realen Daten trainiert werden, können sie diskriminierendes Verhalten wiederholen. Wieso es wichtig ist, die Blackbox hinter
#KI
zu verstehen – in Folge 4 von
#KIundWir
! 🎧🤖
"I am not only a former German
#ChancellorFellow
- I am also a fan of this programme." Ramon Luz, video journalist from Brazil, about the Humboldt Foundation's fellowship for young professionals. Apply now:
#ProgressDiversity
- Why science needs more diversity. The latest edition of the Foundation’s magazine Humboldt Kosmos is dedicated to
#Diversity
. How diverse do you experience science and research in your country? Let's talk💬!
Calling all young leaders from Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the USA! Apply now for a 12-month German
#ChancellorFellow
|ship and conduct a socially-relevant project in Germany! Deadline: 15 October.
Call for applications: The "German Chancellor Fellowship" for tomorrow’s leaders from Brazil, China, India, Russia and the USA. Take your next career step as a
#ChancellorFellow
in Germany 🇩🇪!
A selfie with the German President, a research career during apartheid, and ten years of Humboldt Professorships – Read all about this and more in the latest issue of our magazine
#HumboldtKosmos
👉
Calling all young leaders from Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa and the USA! Apply now for a 12-month German
#ChancellorFellow
|ship and conduct a socially-relevant project in Germany! Deadline: 15 October.
Want to take your next career step as a
#ChancellorFellow
in Germany?
This info event will provide you with first-hand information from programme directors of the German Chancellor Fellowship.
When: 14 July, 18.00 - 19.15 SAST
Where: Zoom 📱💻⬇️
Statt Kürzungen: Haushaltsausschuss beschließt mehr Geld für internationalen Wissenschaftsaustausch. Ein starkes Signal für den Stellenwert von DAAD und Humboldt-Stiftung, das jetzt ohne Einschränkungen umgesetzt werden muss. Vielen Dank den Abgeordneten für die Unterstützung! 🙏🏼
"We demand an immediate halt to all military operations directed against
#Ukraine
." Read and share the open letter from 370 Russian scientists, many
#Humboldtian
|s among them.
#StandWithUkraine
🇺🇦
“Be flexible to go with new opportunities, even if they take you far, far away.” We asked Raul Tempone, expert in the numerics of uncertainty quantification, for his advice to young scientists.
#AvHProfessor
#sciencecareers
German higher ed can do better in terms of
#diversity
, feels internationally experienced
#Humboldtian
Serge Fobofou, especially at the top level. “I still find it surprising that there are so few professors here who come from abroad.”
#ProgressDiversity
"When critics are accused of defamation and showered with lawsuits, it takes steadfastness not to give up." After criticising
#Brazil
’s chief public prosecutor,
#Humboldtian
Conrado Hübner Mendes
@conradohubner
is facing prosecution.
#AcademicFreedom
As a single parent
#Humboldtian
Lucy Ombaka has taught herself to work very efficiently when her son is in kindergarten. Dear parents: How has your way of working changed since your children were born?
#ProgressDiversity
#carework
Calling all young leaders from Brazil, China, India, South Africa and the USA! Apply now for a 12-month German
#ChancellorFellow
|ship and conduct a socially-relevant project in Germany! Deadline: 15 October.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation welcomes its new President! The chemist and expert on green energy Robert Schlögl assumed office as the Foundation’s President at the beginning of 2023.
🔗
Next Saturday is the day. We celebrate Alexander von Humboldt's 250th birthday! 🎂 To get you in the mood, we have prepared 5 quiz questions, which we will answer on the following day. For preparation we recommend a look at . 😉 Have fun!
#AvH250
#Thread
“For me, Humboldt today means...”
This year we celebrate the 250th birthday of Alexander von Humboldt. Join in and upload your video or photo and discover new insights into the world of a networker and marketing genius
#AvH250
Lieber
@janboehm
, eine Alexander von Humboldt-Biografie ist die PERFEKTE Sommerlektüre. Viel Spaß dabei! Wir freuen uns auf "die großen 5" AvH-Zitate🤓.
#festundflauschig
“You are like an artist, you can create your own things and have incredible freedom.” We asked Wil van der Aalst, one of the leading minds in computer science, for his advice to young scientists.
#AvHProfessor
#sciencecareers
The Humboldt Foundation was founded 70 years ago today! 🎂 Our mission then and now: to create a network of trust.
Thank you to our
#Humboldtian
|s for making us what we are! 💚 Here's to another great 70 years!
#AvHWhatsNext
Congratulations! 🤩✂️🧬 We are proud to call Emmanuelle Charpentier a
#Humboldtian
. She came to Germany with the Humboldt Professorship in 2014.
#NobelPrize
#AvHProfessor
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
Want to take your next career step as a
#ChancellorFellow
in Germany?
This info event will provide you with first-hand information from programme directors of the German Chancellor Fellowship.
When: 21 July, 18.00 - 19.15 IST
Where: Zoom 📱💻⬇️
#Diversity
in science has become an important catchphrase – and every country interprets it differently. A journey round the world discovering diversity.
#ProgressDiversity
“We need well-educated women in highly qualified jobs in order to continue developing
#Ethiopia
technologically and socially.” In Africa, promoting women is not just about non-material values, says
#Humboldtian
Yalemtsehay Mekonnen.
#ProgressDiversity
🇪🇹
Calling all young professionals from India 🇮🇳: Want to spend a year in Germany to realise your own project? Learn more about the German
#ChancellorFellow
|ship at our virtual event on 15 July, 5 pm IST.
Register here:
The fellowship:
Secretary General of the Humboldt Foundation
@EnnoAufderheide
addresses the friends of the foundation worldwide, who supported us in the fight against the budgetary cuts: THANK YOU! 🙏
#ScienceDiplomacy
No birthday without presents! 🎁 Upload your birthday video message for the great "Gipfelstürmer" Alexander von Humboldt to . 📽️ As a reward you will receive one of our beautiful (and sustainable)
#AvH250
drinking bottles! Let’s go!
#HappyBirthdayAlex
The Humboldt Foundation's Twitter team is back for 2⃣0⃣2⃣2⃣! Wishing you all a happy and prosperous New Year! We are looking forward to sharing many exciting news and
#Humboldtian
stories from the world of
#science
and
#research
with you.
Would Alexander von Humboldt be on Twitter if he were alive today? What would he have to say about current issues? We present his quotes in a new light.
#AvH250
Finally it begins 🤗🧳! From August 21 - 27, the
#AvHStudyTour
will take 350 new Humboldt fellows and their partners to Germany's most exciting cities Berlin, Bonn, Dresden, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Munich and Weimar. No offence, Cologne 😉.
#Humboldtian
Corona is changing the world. Set an example for international collaboration in research, in the
#Covid19
crisis and in the future. Share a video of yourself with this statement 👇 and
#ResearchAcrossBorders
🌏.
Our former president Helmut Schwarz spent 56 years at
@TUBerlin
. Today he will be given a ceremonial farewell 🥂. We wish him all the best for his - surely still active - retirement!
We are speechless! 🎉🎉 Two years in a row,
#Humboldtian
|s won the
#NobelPrize
in
#Chemistry
. This year, Benjamin List for developing organocatalysis, a new tool for molecule building – last year, Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic scissors.
"I always like to go to the extremes. Can we do things that were just impossible before?"
- 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List talks about his future research at this morning's
#NobelPrize
press conference.
“Start with small problems and find a treasure in everything.” We asked the renowned physicist Andrei Bernevig for his advice to young scientists.
#AvHProfessor
#sciencecareers
„In der DDR hätte ich niemals Professor werden können.“ Historiker Dieter Hoffmann hat die Wiedervereinigung hautnah miterlebt. Er erzählt, welche Barrieren sich für ihn persönlich aufgelöst haben und teilt seine Empfindungen aus dieser Zeit.
#30JahreVereintForschen
#30JahreEins
Farewell and auf Wiedersehen 👋! Angela Merkel is the patron of our German Chancellor Fellowship for prospective leaders from 🇧🇷🇨🇳🇮🇳🇷🇺🇿🇦🇺🇸. Today she met with a group of
#ChancellorFellow
.s for the last time.
"Happy birthday to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. You've opened so many doors for me."
This year marks the Humboldt Foundation's 70th anniversary – Thank you, dear
#Humboldtian
|s for your kind birthday wishes. We will keep opening doors for you! 💚
#AvHWhatsNext
Academia as the ideal environment for
#diversity
? Where do you experience it in your everyday professional life? And where is it particularly lacking?
#ProgressDiversity
Continue reading:
"She genuinely showed me that a woman can be both a researcher and a mother, that children are not a hindrance to academic mobility and a career."
#AvHProfessor
Catherina Becker on one of her mentors, Christiane Richter-Landsberg.
#WomenInScience
👩🔬
👉
Congratulations to Reinhard Genzel for winning the
#PhysicsNobelPrize
2020. 🥳 He is an important member of our Humboldt Network: host of many Humboldt Fellows and Award Winners since 1988 and former member of our selection committee!
#NobelPrize2020
@NobelPrize
Just in! This photo of new Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel snapped after he discovered he had been awarded the 2020
#NobelPrize
in Physics.
Congratulations!
He is strengthening scientific and cultural relations between Canada and Germany 🇨🇦🇩🇪: The chemist
@andrei_yudin
is to receive the Konrad Adenauer Research Award.
@UofT
„Find a field that is of interest, not only to you but also for society.” We asked the internationally eminent immunologist Guus Rimmelzwaan for his advice to young scientists.
#AvHProfessor
#sciencecareers
"If you try to force science into a corset of petty targets and reporting requirements, you kill the creativity of even the best researchers." The Humboldt Foundation's Secretary General
@EnnoAufderheide
for
@FinancialReview
Are you currently doing
#research
in Germany and interested in a
#postdoc
or
#sabbatical
with members of the worldwide Humboldt Network abroad? Then join our online info event on the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship next Tuesday:
📅 9. April
🕑 2 pm
➡️
“The future belongs to you and it is up to you to contribute to making the world a better world.” Nobel laureate Emmanuelle Charpentier addresses 600 scientists and
#Humboldtian
|s at the opening of the Humboldt Foundations 2022 Annual Meeting.
#AvHTogether
#OnThisDay
, 249 years ago, Alexander von
#Humboldt
was born in Berlin. In his spirit we foster an international network of scientific cooperation and trust. Happy birthday, Alex! 🎁🎉🎊
Danke und bis bald, lieber
@EnnoAufderheide
! 👋💚🐦🐝🌻 Unser Generalsekretär geht in den wohlverdienten Ruhestand. Seine Herzlichkeit, sein Engagement für die Stiftung & die Humboldt-Familie und sein offenes Ohr für uns Mitarbeiter*innen werden fehlen!
We congratulate
#Humboldtian
Pierre Agostini on winning the
#NobelPrize
in Physics 2023 which he shares with Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier for "experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter".
Calling all
#WomenInScience
📣
@Alumni_de
is launching "Females Forward – The 2024 Humboldt Mentoring Program"!
The program matches early career researchers with established researchers within the Humboldt Network. Interested? Get in touch via humboldt-life
@avh
.de.
Warmest congratulations to our former president Helmut Schwarz! 🥳🤗 Today, he will receive the 2021 Leonardo da Vinci Award from the European Academy of Sciences
@eur_sc
for his outstanding lifetime achievements in molecular chemistry!
@TUBerlin
Anlässlich der aktuellen Berichterstattung der
@BILD
(„Die Lockdown-Macher“): Die Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen ruft zu mehr Sachlichkeit in Krisensituationen auf: 📢
#WissKomm
#SciComm
#Corona
#COVID19
Acht internationale Spitzenforscher*innen für Unis in Aachen, Bonn, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Göttingen, Köln, Marburg, München und Münster. Die Alexander von Humboldt-Professur ist Deutschlands höchstdotierter internationaler Forschungspreis.
#AvHProfessor
“Academic systems are set up to serve the typical scientist. And the typical scientist has traditionally been male, with a wife at home to take care of the family realm.” Als
#AvHProfessor
|in gehört
@MegCrofoot
in Deutschland noch immer zu einer Minderheit.
#ProgressDiversity
Warmest season's greetings and best wishes for the new year from all of us at the Humboldt Foundation to you and your loved ones! 🤗❄️🎄🌟🎉 The Twitter team takes a short break and will be back in January 2023!
„Emmanuelle Charpentier und Jennifer Doudna haben mit der Genschere eine bahnbrechende Technologie entwickelt.“ Stiftungspräsident Hans-Christian Pape gratuliert
#Humboldtian
|erin zum
#Nobelpreis
.
Top science for Germany: These 21 international researchers received Germany’s most valuable research award – the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. All awards come with up to €5 million in funding.
#AvHProfessor
„Krankheiten kennen keine Grenzen. Deshalb sollten wir in Forschung und Politik auch keine kennen.“ Danke an Dr.
@KarambaDiaby
, Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages, für seine Unterstützung von internationaler Zusammenarbeit in der Forschung!
#ResearchAcrossBorders
🌏
„Auf einmal las ich da in den Unterlagen diesen Satz eines Gutachters.“ Anekdoten wie die von Silke Wieprecht, Leiterin eines Lehrstuhls an der
@Uni_Stuttgart
, können fast alle erzählen, die sich mit dem Thema
#Diversit
ät beschäftigen.
#ProgressDiversity
Nearly all the world’s leading universities are in countries that have made
#diversity
a core principle of science.” German journalist
@JMWiarda
argues for more diversity at German universities.
#ProgressDiversity
„Wir schämen uns sehr.“ 6000 russische Wissenschaftler*innen haben einen Protestbrief gegen den Krieg in der
#Ukraine
unterzeichnet. Darunter auch der
#Humboldtian
|er Yuri Kovalev. Ein Interview.
#ScienceForUkraine
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022
#NobelPrize
in Physics to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.
„Wir fürchten um das Leben und Wohlergehen der ukrainischen Bevölkerung." Stiftungspräsident Hans-Christian Pape spricht den ukrainischen Netzwerkmitgliedern und der Bevölkerung des Landes seine Solidarität aus.
#Ukraine
#StandWithUkraine
Our Annual Meeting 2023 was not only the biggest in its history – it was also a fantastic birthday party! 🎂💚 Thank you for celebrating the Humboldt Foundation’s 70th anniversary with us, dear
#Humboldtian
|s and see you soon!
#AvHWhatsNext