GRANTS AND AWARD
Humboldt Alumni Award for innovative network initiatives 2020
Every year the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards up to five prizes to promote innovative network ideas to alumni of its scholarship and award programs abroad. Projects that are selected can be pre-financed within the framework of the foundation’s support and alumni programs. The Humboldt Alumni Prize is intended to promote academic and cultural connections between Germany and the Humboldt alumni’s home countries and to strengthen their cooperation in the respective regions. The award is endowed with a funding amount of up to 30,000 euros.
This year, initiatives by Humboldtians from Cameroon, Kenya, New Zealand, and Romania will be honored.
Humboldt Alumni Award for innovative network initiatives 2020 Winner
For the twelfth time, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has recognized innovative network ideas from Humboldtians abroad. Projects are awarded in which Humboldt alumni are committed to the academic and cultural connections between Germany and their home countries as well as subject and subject-related research networks and which strengthen cooperation in the respective regions. The award is endowed with a funding amount of up to 30,000 euros. One of the Humboldt Alumni Awards is intended to promote initiatives to network women scientists, which awards initiatives that promote the career paths of women scientists and their cooperation partners, taking into account professional and family commitments, and strengthen them in the long term. Another Humboldt Alumni Award serves to promote innovative formats for science communication. The aim is to reward initiatives with which scientists and their cooperation partners are committed to the dialogue between science and society and which help to increase public confidence in scientific knowledge.
To reconcile aspiration and reality of successful career paths of women scientists – that is the concern of Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka. You and your already established network Women in Sciences: Trans-disciplinary Initiatives with the “Cameroon Professional Research-Oriented Women Network”(CaPROWN) have set themselves the goal of promoting and strengthening postdocs from Cameroon from all academic disciplines. Whether they are building their careers at universities, in non-governmental organizations, or at other institutions: the CaPROWN network uses online discussions and workshops with face-to-face meetings to actively help women scientists receive systematic support in order to improve their professional and personal skills Become competitive in research design and research funding issues. In the long term, female careers should be supported, promoted, integrated, strengthened, and, last but not least, made internationally visible.
Meet the winners of this Year’s Humboldt Alumni Award for innovative network initiatives 2020 and find out more of their outstanding works in the area of Scientific Research and Innovation…