With the Humboldt Research Awards, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation honours internationally renowned scientists and scholars from abroad. These awards are based primarily on the scientist's/scholar's entire academic record. In addition, award winners are invited, in cooperation with their specialist colleagues in Germany, to carry out research projects of their own choice for a period ranging from about six months to an entire year. The award amounts to 60,000 Euros.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a non-profit foundation established by the Federal Republic of Germany for the promotion of international research cooperation. It enables highly qualified scholars not resident in Germany to spend extended periods of research in Germany and promotes the ensuing academic contacts. The Humboldt Foundation promotes an active world-wide network of scholars. Individual sponsorship during periods spent in Germany and longstanding follow-up contacts have been hallmarks of the foundation's work since 1953.


Alexander von Humboldt Foundation