Call for Participation

Virtual Humboldt Colloquium„Top Global Research” and the Humboldt Network: NewFrontiers of German-Japanese Scientific Cooperation
17-18 November 2022

Dear Early Career Researcher,
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is organising a virtual Humboldt Colloquium andforwarding this Call for Participation to you.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation between excellent
scientists and scholars from Germany and countries around the world. Every year, theHumboldt Foundation enables more than 2,000 researchers from all over the world to spend
time conducting research in Germany. The Foundation maintains an interdisciplinary networkof well over 30,000 Humboldtians in more than 140 countries around the world – including 57
Nobel Prize winners (https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/).
With this virtual Humboldt Colloquium, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation aims at
establishing, renewing and deepening scientific as well as personal contacts between active
Humboldt Fellows and Early Career Researchers who may be planning a research stay inGermany.
This event provides a forum for presenting and discussing current research activities and future
initiatives on an interdisciplinary level in parallel workshops. In these workshops, Early Career
Researchers from all fields will have the opportunity to present their current work to more senior
and established researchers with strong international experience and connections.
The Humboldt Colloquium will be preceded by a satellite event on 16 November 2022,
exclusively dedicated to you. During the event, scientists and scholars will give short insighton their experiences as Humboldtians. The lectures will be followed by a discussion and Q&A
session as well as an information workshop. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to getin contact with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s staff and our cooperation partners
who will offer consulting on your career plans in the context of international mobility.
The conference languages will be English and German. The choice of the conference languagein the respective sessions should enable all participants to interact actively.
The preliminary programme of the Virtual Humboldt Colloquium can be downloaded here.

Please register until 9 October, 2022 under the following link:
https://www.avh-japan.de.
Please note: For reasons of data protection, you need to create your own personalaccount in order to get access to our website.
To create your own account, please use the following password: ecr_2022

The preliminary programme, some general information as well as advice for presenting talks
are also available on this site.
Contribute to the programme of the colloquium by giving an “Elevator Pitch”
What is an “Elevator Pitch”?
An Elevator Pitch is a 5-minute presentation on your research. If you wish, you can prepare
one slide for your presentation. During your Elevator Pitch, try to answer the following keyquestion:•

What is my research about?

•Why does it matter?

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What do I hope to achieve in the future?

All proposals for an Elevator Pitch will be reviewed by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The selection is based on the quality of the abstracts, curricula vitae and lists of publications
submitted. All applicants will be notified by 17 October 2022.
We are looking forward to your participation.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Enno Aufderheide
Secretary General of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

For questions concerning event content:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Dr Zoe Antonia Kusmierz
Jean-Paul-Str. 1253173 BonnPhone.: +49 228 833 - 284
Fax: +49 228 833 - 217E-Mail: zoe.kusmierz@avh.de
For questions concerning the event organisation:
con gressa GmbHSilvia DreierEngeldamm 62
10179 Berlin
Phone: +49 176 55210967
Fax: +49 30 284938 - 50
Email: avh-japan@congressa.de