Humboldt Discoveries

Humboldt Discoveries is a series of events that gives potential sponsorship recipients, hosts and anyone interested the opportunity to find out more about individual Humboldt Foundation programs. These include events on

Henriette Herz Scouting Program

Next event on 12.02.2025 14:00 - 15:30 (online)

Every year, around 40 people (research group leaders and professors) are selected as “scouts” in a competitive peer review process, who then independently identify up to three potential research fellows abroad (whose doctorate must not date back more than 12 years and who have not yet applied to the Foundation) and propose them for a Humboldt Research Fellowship, which is awarded directly after a positive formal review by the Head Office. In this way, excellent researchers from abroad can be strategically added to your own working group.

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship

Next event on 08.04.2025 14:00 - 15:00 (online)

The Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship supports postdocs (who completed their doctorate no more than four years ago) or experienced researchers (who completed their doctorate no more than twelve years ago) with their research project abroad. Postdocs can apply for a 6- to 24-month fellowship, experienced researchers for a 6- to 18-month fellowship (divisible into up to three stays within three years).

Research awards

Event on 30.04.2025 13:00 - 13:45 (online)

“Would you like to host a research personality from abroad for a sabbatical? The Humboldt Research Awards and the Bessel Research Awards are associated with prize money and the award winners are also invited to carry out research projects of their own choice at an academic institution in Germany together with their colleagues there.”

All events currently planned for 2025 can be found here.

If you have any questions about the events, please get in touch with the relevant contact.