Balancing Academic Sponsorship and Foreign Cultural Policy: an Interpretation of Five Decades of Humboldt Foundation Sponsorship Data
Balancing Academic Sponsorship and Foreign Cultural Policy: an Interpretation of Five Decades of Humboldt Foundation Sponsorship Data

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the current Humboldt Foundation, which after 50 years can look back on a global network of more than 20 000 academics sponsored, supports research work by foreign academics in Germany and young German academics abroad. Although it has always been neutral politically, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s sponsorship figures mirror the history and international politics of the times. The people who, through their programmes, are able to spend a certain period abroad gaining new impetus for their research as well as for their private lives, were and are determined by the opportunities and restrictions of a specific time and a specific place.

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