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Foundation for Polish Science scholarships - six German scientists will conduct research in Poland

Six German scholars were awarded honorary Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Scholarship. The scholarships awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science will allow them them to conduct scientific research at a selected institution in Poland.

Alexander von Humboldt Polish Honorary Research Scholarship is the equivalent of "Humboldt-Forschungspreis", prestigious award granted by the well-known Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung of Germany to eminent foreign scholars. Scholarships are awarded to eminent German scholars with the highest qualifications and a significant contribution to global research, in recognition of their research achievements. The scholarship amount is awarded 4 thousand euros per month.

One of the winers is Prof. Eduard Muehle of the Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster, who will carry a six-month research project in collaboration with Prof. Przemysław Urbańczyk of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology PAS. In turn, Prof. Rolf Feiguth from the University of Freiburg in Switzerland will conduct a three-month study with Prof. Kwiryna Ziemba. Prof. Moritz Kassmann from the University of Bielefeld will be working for four months with Prof. Krzysztof Bogdan.

Among the winners is also Prof. Peter Talkner from the University of Augsburg , which will carry out a six-month project together with Prof. Jerzy Łuczka. Prof. Karl Ulrich Kainer of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Research Institute will work for five months with Prof. Jacek Kaczmar. The last of the winners, who will conduct a five-month study in Poland, is Prof. Manfred Pfister of the Free University of Berlin. He will work with Prof. Jerzy Limon.

The names of candidates are submitted to the Foundation for Polish Science by Polish scientists. Applications submitted directly by German scholars are not accepted. The scholarship is awarded for the period of three to six months, and it can be split into several periods over three years from the grant date.

Polish research unit presenting the candidate is obliged to provide appropriate facilities for their candidate to carry out a research project designed by the beneficiary: access to laboratories and necessary materials, as well as the relevant archives and libraries.

Scholarships are awarded on the basis of the 1995 agreement between the Foundation for Polish Science and the Humboldt Foundation. As a result of this contract, the Foundation for Polish Science joined similar organisations from 19 countries with analogous partnership agreements on mutual awarding of these distinctions to the most outstanding scholars.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), German naturalist, traveller and geographer, worked together with many Poles and was an honorary member of the Society of Friends of Sciences in Warsaw and the first promoter of Adam Mickiewicz’s poetry in Germany.

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