The University of Konstanz has been recognized with the Henriette Herz Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for its active recruitment concept for excellent early career researchers from the Global South. With the prize money in the amount of 125,000 euros, the University of Konstanz will seek to actively identify highly qualified individuals from the Global South early on in their academic careers and invite them to spend time at the university’s Zukunftskolleg – with the overall aim of building lasting relationships and global research networks. The Zukunftskolleg is the University of Konstanz’s Institute for Advanced Study for early career researchers.
The Henriette Herz Award is part of the Henriette Herz Scouting Programme and presented for the first and only time in 2020. The purpose of the Scouting Programme is to encourage highly qualified early career researchers from abroad to pursue an academic career in Germany.
Further information: Press release 10.11.2020