Research funder · Germany
Volkswagen Foundation
Private German charitable Foundation
- Grants since 2016
- 2 365
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- €873.4M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 6 179
- Funded works, all time
- 18.7k
Grants
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Coal, Climate Change and COVID-19 (CoCCCo)
Jan Steckel · Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change
2021–2024 · research · Künstliche Intelligenz - Ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft von morgen
Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS)
Lena Kästner · Saarland University
2021–2022 · research · Opus Magnum
Was, wenn überhaupt, ist ungerecht am Vererben?
Stefan Gosepath · Freie Universität Berlin
2021–2028 · research · Momentum - Förderung für Erstberufene
Regulatory Instruments in the Real World
Alexander Hellgardt · University of Regensburg
2021–2026 · research · Weltwissen - Strukturelle Stärkung kleiner Fächer
DiCi-Hub (Digital Cinema-Hub): A Research Hub for Digital Film Studies
Malte Hagener · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Political cohesion under conditions of fiscal scarcity - German federalism in the time of COVID-19
Sabine Kropp · Freie Universität Berlin
2021–2027 · research · Freigeist-Fellowships
Light-assisted programming of synthetic organoid tissues
Hannes Beyer · Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2021–2023 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Participatory surveillance through tracing apps - Understanding a double-edged approach to realize social benefits
Manuel Trenz · University of Göttingen
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Changing the Foundations of Economic Thought in the Midst of Crisis - How Economic Actors Create New Imagined Futures for Sustainable Economies
Silja Graupe · Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung
2021–2023 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Participatory Innovation in Times of Crisis and Beyond
Thomas Gegenhuber · Hertie School
2021–2023 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Extension Phase of the Senior Fellowship for Dr. Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi: The Past in the Present: The Zimbabwe Culture and other Archaeological Heritage in north western Zimbabwe
Brigitte Reinwald · Leibniz University Hannover
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
Uterus Transplantation: New Frontiers in Human Reproduction, Body Experience, and Gender Identity
Claudia Bozzaro · Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
2021–2023 · research · Experiment! Auf der Suche nach gewagten Forschungsideen
Biological impact of social relationships on modern cancer therapies
Julius Fischer · Technical University of Munich
2021–2022 · research · Experiment! Auf der Suche nach gewagten Forschungsideen
Electrochemical Preparation of Metastable Semiconductor Allotropes
Bodo Böhme · Max-planck-institut Für Chemische Physik Fester Stoffe (mpi Cpfs)
2021–2023 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Bayesian and Nonparametric Statistics - Teaming up two opposing theories for the benefit of prognostic studies in Covid-19
Tim Friede · TU Dortmund University
2021–2027 · research · Leben? - Ein neuer Blick der Naturwissenschaften auf die grundlegenden Prinzipien des Lebens
Ghost in the protein: how do new proteins come about?
Erich Bornberg-Bauer · University of Cambridge
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Determinants of adherence to behavioural recommendations and psychological adaptation to COVID-19 in everyday life
Benjamin Schüz · University of Tasmania
2021–2025 · research · Global Issues - und Global Health
Water Security for Whom? - Social and Material Perspectives on Inequality around Multipurpose Reservoirs in Colombia
Tobias Krüger · Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2021–2026 · research · Momentum - Förderung für Erstberufene
A Polar Expedition in Chemistry
Henning Jessen · University of Freiburg
2021–2025 · research · Künstliche Intelligenz - Ihre Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft von morgen
Towards a science of curiosity
Eric Schulz · Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Nonlinear dynamics of epidemic spreading in urban transport networks - impact of paratransit in a case study for Cape Town, South Africa (Acronym: PrePara)
Malte Schröder · Technische Universität Dresden
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Market Design for Medical Supplies and Services: Corona and Beyond
Vitali Gretschko · University of Bonn
2021–2022 · research · Originalitätsverdacht? - Neue Optionen für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
The Demented Citizen. Voice, Vote and Representation of Cognitively Impaired Persons
Jared Sonnicksen · Technische Universität Darmstadt
2021–2025 · research · Herausforderungen für Europa
Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum-Seekers and Refugees (AFAR)
Cathryn Costello · Hertie School
2021 · research · Symposien und Sommerschulen
Symposium "Ethical aspects of digital solutions in nursing care. An interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral dialogue"
Giovanni Rubeis · Heidelberg University
2021–2022 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Extension Phase of the Senior Fellowship for Dr. Kouassi Dongo "Software-based decision-making and control tools for optimizing Organic Municipal Solid Waste collection and composting in Tiassalé, southern Cote d'Ivoire"
Oliver Hensel · University of Kassel
2021–2022 · research · Experiment! Auf der Suche nach gewagten Forschungsideen
The Nasal-Cycle: A Novel Path to The Brain
Thomas Hummel · Weizmann Institute of Science
2021–2024 · research · Kurswechsel - Forschungsneuland zwischen den Lebenswissen- schaften und Natur- oder Technikwissenschaften
From the cell biology of stem cells to mathematical modeling of brain function
Federico Calegari · Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Re-traditionalization of gender roles as reaction to the Corona crisis?
Dorothée Behr · GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
2021–2024 · research · Big Data in den Lebenswissenschaften der Zukunft
Marketplace Lending: A brave new lending world? Interdisciplinary research on platform architecture to foster sustainable finance
Peter Grundke · Osnabrück University
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Remeasuring the Allowed? - The Concept of Permissible Risk in the Pandemic Crisis
Luna Rösinger · University of Cologne
2021–2022 · research · Wissen für morgen - Kooperative Forschungsvorhaben im sub-saharischen Afrika
Sommerschule "Spaces for Future: Processes of Rural and Urban Transformation in Southern Africa"
Reimer Gronemeyer · Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
2021–2022 · research · Originalitätsverdacht? - Neue Optionen für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
Towards a "dancing theology": an exploration of dance as a Christian form of art
Riyako Hikota · Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
2021–2024 · research · Global Issues - und Global Health
The Forestry Sector as an Inequality Machine? Agents, Agreements and Global Politics of Trade and Investment in the Congo Basin
Maria Brockhaus · Université de Yaoundé II
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Dietary, physical and chronobiological changes during the corona crisis among children and adolescents in Germany, The DONALD Study
Nicole Jankovic · University of Bonn
2021–2022 · research · Corona Crisis and Beyond - Perspectives for Science, Scholarship and Society
Corona Crisis and Beyond: Targeted Policies to Mitigate the Unintended Health Effects of the Pandemic Response on Families with Children
Christina Felfe De Ormeno · Aarhus University
2021–2024 · research · Digitalisierung in den Naturwissenschaften
Global Carbon Cycling and Complex Molecular Patterns in Aquatic Systems: Integrated Analyses Powered by Semantic Data Management
Thorsten Dittmar · Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
2021–2022 · research · Originalitätsverdacht? - Neue Optionen für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften
Die Rückkehr der Dienstbot*innen? Die Prekarisierung professioneller Sorgearbeit als gesamtgesellschaftliches Projekt
Nicole Kramer · Goethe University Frankfurt
2021–2025 · research · Weltwissen - Strukturelle Stärkung kleiner Fächer
AMYGDALA Associating music therapy's progress and medical research
Josephine Geipel · University of Augsburg
2021–2024 · research · Big Data in den Lebenswissenschaften der Zukunft
Automating the Logistical City: Space, Algorithms, Speculation
Dirk Armin Beverungen · Leuphana University of Lüneburg