Georg Forster Research Award is now open for applications from suitably qualified students. It is a fully funded scholarship for all students sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
About the Scholarship
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presents up to six Georg Forster Research Awards each year to internationally outstanding researchers from developing and emerging countries in recognition of their academic record to date.
The award is intended to support the long-term promotion of outstanding scientific multipliers in transition and developing countries whose research will contribute to improving living conditions in their countries of origin.
The research award was named for renowned German ethnologist Georg Forster (1754–1794) and is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Requirements for Georg Forster Research Award
Nominator
1. Nominations for a Georg Forster Research Award may be initiated by established researchers at research institutions in Germany.
2. Humboldt Foundation award winners working abroad are also eligible to submit nominations jointly with a researcher working in Germany.
Nominees
Eligible for nomination are researchers whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or findings have had a lasting effect on their discipline beyond their immediate research area and who will continue to contribute to developing research-based approaches to the specific challenges of developing and emerging countries.
1. The individual nominated must additionally meet the following criteria:
2. The nominee’s academic achievements must be internationally recognised and proven by corresponding successes in research.
3. The nominee may not previously have received an award from the Humboldt Foundation for her/his academic work.
4. The nominee must be a citizen of a developing or transition country.
5. The nominee must have lived and worked in one of these countries for at least five years at the time of nomination.
Selection Criteria
The main selection criteria include:
1. The nominee’s outstanding international reputation as a researcher.
2. Research findings with a demonstrable impact that extends beyond the immediate field of work.
3. The significance of the awarding of a research prize in relation to the developmental relevance of the research.
4. The nominee’s multiplier effect in research, teaching, and science management, and in other development-related processes outside the research field.
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