Global Engagement
Max Schubovic für VolkswagenStiftung
For decades, the Volkswagen Foundation has been providing regional funding, as for example here in the Central Asia/Caucasus region.
Global perspectives in science and science promotion are of central importance for the foundation. Our global engagement is embedded in the foundation’s statutes and funding guidelines. We constantly adapt our international activities to the changing global context to achieve the best possible impact.
We shape our global engagement in a goal-oriented, responsible and flexible manner!
The four foci of our global engagement:
- Foundation networks and partnerships
- Global academic cooperations to build mutual trust
- Competence building to deal with disruptive changes
- An open, global discourse
Funding offers #Global Engagement
Many of our funding programmes have an international focus, the following is a current selection. You can find an overview of all our funding programmes under Our Funding Portfolio
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AI Research Groups Lower Saxony
Website zukunft.niedersachsenAs a key technology, artificial intelligence is of central importance to Lower Saxony's research system. This call for proposals combines the objectives of promoting individual scientists with the further development of AI methods and their application to existing data sets.
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area of research: computer science, artificial intelligence, application disciplines
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type of funding: research groups
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Transatlantic Bridge Professorships
Learn moreFunding programme for professors in the humanities and social sciences currently working in the USA who wish to work both in the USA and in Germany.
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area of research: Humanities and Social Sciences
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type of funding: Proportional financing of a professorship in Germany
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zukunft.niedersachsen: Research Cooperation Lower Saxony – Israel
Website zukunft.niedersachsen.deFunding is provided for scientifically outstanding projects conducted jointly by researchers from Israel and Lower Saxony.
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area of research: Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering Sciences (call 2026)
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type of funding: research projects
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Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility and Global Health
Learn moreThe call is directed at researchers from HICs and LMICs, in close collaboration with local communities, non-academic stakeholders and other relevant actors. It is jointly initiated by the three independent private foundations Novo Nordisk Foundation (Denmark), Wellcome (Great Britain) and Volkswagen Foundation.
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areas of research: social sciences, life & health sciences
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funding for: international collaborative projects
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Lower Saxony – Scotland Research and Innovation Scheme: Stream II – Excellence Track
Website zukunft.niedersachsen.deThe programme provides Lower Saxonian and Scottish higher education institutions and their researchers with an opportunity to conduct joint research to lay the foundation for successful third-party funding bids, in particular Horizon Europe.
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area of research: all topics, particularly energy (transformation), life sciences, educational sciences, mobility and its transformation as well as security policy
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type of funding: cooperative research projects
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