Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
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| Type: | Government Agency |
| Industry: | Research |
| Headquarters: | Bonn |
| Country: | Germany |
| Employees: | 51-200 (2016) |
| Website: | Alexander von Humbolt Website |
| Facebook: | Company Name |
| LinkedIn: | Alexander von Humbold LinkedIn |
The Alexander von Humbolt foundation (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in German) is a foundation that offers flexible sponsorship programs for researchers at all stages of their careers. Its research fellowships and awards enable outstanding scientists and scholars from abroad to complete long-term research stays in Germany. It offers German research scientists and scholars an opportunity carry out a research project abroad as a guest of one of more than 24,000 Humboldt Foundation alumni worldwide. It also promotes international cultural dialogue and academic exchange.[1]
The foundation’s alumni network unites well over 26,000 Humboldtians in more than 140 countries worldwide, including 51 Nobel Prize winners (2015)[2]
Funding
Alexander von Humbolt receives most of its funding from the following institutes;
- Federal Foreign Office (AA) (33.3%)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) (57.6%)
- German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) (4.7%)
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMU) (0.9%)
References
- ↑ https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/about-us.html About the Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, Retrieved 3rd July 2016
- ↑ http://www.research-in-germany.org/en/research-funding/funding-organisations/alexander-von-humboldt-foundation.html About Alexander von Humbolt Foundation, Retrieved 3rd July 2016