Introducing the Humboldt Club
About the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, founded in Berlin in 1860 and re-established in Bonn in 1953, promotes cooperation between top international and German academics by awarding research fellowships and research prizes. As an intermediary organization for German foreign cultural and educational policy, it supports worldwide scientific and cultural dialogue.
Humboldt guest researchers are selected regardless of religion, ethnic and social origin, nationality and gender. There are no quotas, neither for individual countries nor for individual academic disciplines.
Every year, the Humboldt Foundation enables over 2,000 researchers from all over the world to spend a research stay in Germany. The Foundation maintains a global network of more than 25,000 Humboldtians from all disciplines in over 130 countries, including 44 Nobel Prize winners.
The Humboldt Club's Field of Activity
The Austrian Club of Friends of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (ÖKFH for short) pursues the following purposes:
- To cooperate with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Humboldtians in Austria and other countries;
- to support the continuation of research work initiated by Humboldt fellowships or research awards
- providing information about the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to all interested parties, especially young researchers
- promoting interdisciplinarity in all scientific disciplines;
- to support researchers from the Federal Republic of Germany in their academic work in Austria.