With the new funding program, the Volkswagen Foundation supports scientists who conduct research on transformation processes and, with the help of their network, put their knowledge into practice. Deadlines: March 28 (fellows) and April 24, 2024 (research groups)

Narratives can either drive or discourage people. Transformation researcher Karoline Augenstein is convinced of this. She wants to find out how narratives of the future can impact on the way it is shaped.

Ines Drefs is fascinated by research – and most of all by the topic of media development assistance A new position at the interface of science and practice came just in time.

The Volkswagen Foundation supports professors three to five years after taking up their first tenured professorship at a university in Germany.  Next deadline for application is April 24, 2024. Questions? Visit our online Q&A on Feb. 08, 2024 (in English).

The Volkswagen Foundation is funding the virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study with almost one million euros. The opening and the first conference have now taken place in Berlin.

With a two-part funding offer, the Foundation aims to bring together researchers and (civil) society actors to enable new perspectives on social transformation processes of democracy.