Programmes & Initiatives
With the initiative "Freedom for Research in the Humanities" the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is setting out to enhance the humanities from the structural point of view and to provide them with more latitude to develop their strengths.
As the largest private science funder the Volkswagen Foundation focuses its funding activities on selected funding initiatives. Two of them have a specific focus on the humanities: the funding initiatives “Focus on the Humanities” and “Key Issues in the Humanities”.
The call for proposals regarding funding for “Käte Hamburger Collegia” (International Research Collegia in the Humanities) represents a funding format developed on the initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities which combines the benefits of individual and project research in a unique fashion.
In response to a request for a statement on the non-university research institutions of the former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, the German Council of Science and Humanities in 1991 recommended the founding of research centres in the humanities. In terms of their structure and organisation these Humanities Centres form an innovative element of the research landscape in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Since the beginning of 2009 the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been funding all eight research museums of the Leibnitz Association within the framework of joint research funding of the Federal Government and the Länder.
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