From broadcast@iisc.ac.in Mon Nov 8 19:30:26 2004 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 09:57:51 +0530 (IST) From: Broadcast-IIScReply-To: alumni@admin.iisc.ac.in To: Broadcast Service-IISc Subject: admin:Humboldt Fellowships Humbolt - Programme auf einen blick ******************************************* " The aim of the Foundation is to grant research fellowships and research awards to academically trained and highly qualified persons of foreign nationality, without regard to gender, race, religion or ideology, to enable them to carry out research projects in the Federal Republic of Germany and to maintain the resultant academic contacts..." Every year, the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation grants ** up to 600 research fellowships to highly qualified foreign scholars holding doctorates and aged up to 40 years, enabling them to undertake long-term periods of research in Germany; ** up to 100 research awards to internationally recognized foreign scholars ; ** approx. 15 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards to young outstanding scholars ; ** up to 150 Feodor Lynen Research Fellowships to higly qualified German scholars holding doctorates and aged up to 38 years, enabling them to spend periods of research abroad (including 42 fellowships for japan) ; ** 2 Max Planck Research Awards to German and foreign scholars for international cooperation ; ** 10 Bundeskanzler Scholarships each for prospective leaders from the U.S.A. and the Russian Federation ; ** a number of further research fellowships for special purposes. For more details you may visit the following science circle websites : 1. www.science-circle.org 2. www.science-cooperation.org Hard copies of the Application are not available. It can, however, be downloaded from the website : http://www.avh.de/en/programme/stip_aus/stp.htm A link to AvH can also be established through through the following website : http://www.science-circle.org/academicexchange.asp Dr. Narain Mahishi General Secretary, IISc. Alumni Association Tel : 23600180 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For various other details of activities at IISc / Alumni Association, please visit our Website : www.iisc.ac.in/iiscaa -------------------------------------- Blood needed urgently http://ece.iisc.ac.in/~toall/blood.txt ---------------------------------------- Ticket found http://ece.iisc.ac.in/~toall/found.txt ------------------------------------------ 1.Helmet lost 2.spectacle lost http://ece.iisc.ac.in/~toall/lost.txt -----------------------------------------