Funding Offer
The Hannah Arendt Fellowships enable outstanding international academics from the humanities, cultural and social sciences to spend six months conducting research in Lower Saxony. "Humans and AI" is the topic for 2027. Deadline: 1 June 2026
Funding Offer
This funding programme offers researchers the opportunity to receive seed funding for novel collaborative projects. The aim is to use the funding to enable the acquisition of additional third-party funding. This includes the strategic preparation of applications for large funding formats as well as significantly smaller projects.
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Whether during the annual flu season or the coronavirus pandemic, we repeatedly experience firsthand the impact that viruses and bacteria have on our everyday lives. In the HUMAN programme, junior research groups participating in the HUMAN programme at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig are investigating the complex interaction between humans and microbes.
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Why do viruses make some people sick and others not? Max Kellner seeks answers where infections cause little harm: by examining natural hosts such as bats. A portrait of curiosity, crises, and risk-prone research. By Björn Lohmann.
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International cooperation opens up valuable opportunities for scientists in Lower Saxony. That is why the Ministry of Science and the Volkswagen Foundation are funding ten Lower Saxony-Scottish research collaborations. From energy supply and medicine to space travel: a selection of the approved projects demonstrates their wide range of subjects.
