Manfred Eigen-Förderstiftung
The MANFRED EIGEN-FÖRDERSTIFTUNG is a dependent foundation established within the private assets of the Max Planck Society.
Purpose of the Foundation
As the largest research institute of the Max Planck Society, we aim to further advance scientific progress in the natural sciences through our multidisciplinary approach. The purpose of the MANFRED EIGEN FÖRDERSTIFTUNG is to ensure excellence in science and research at our institute in cooperation with partner institutes at the Göttingen Campus.
The Göttingen campus shall continue to be a magnet for scientific talent from around the world, where experts and talented individuals from various disciplines come together to make discoveries that will transform our lives in the long term. Our researchers are selected and trained to work at the frontiers of possibility.
As a non-profit organization, the MANFRED EIGEN FOUNDATION supports projects and events that cannot be funded, or can only be inadequately funded, by public funds or public funding programs. This includes performance-based awards for employees, science-oriented institute events, and the funding of scientific projects that funding organizations consider important and interesting but deem “too risky” and, therefore, generally do not support.
Become part of our future
Your donation supports an ideal environment for curiosity-driven science. You can help provide the freedom, space, resources, and technology that will revolutionize our understanding of the natural sciences, extending to health and disease.
The Foundation has the following goals
- Promoting cutting-edge research and ensuring scientific excellence in Göttingen through financial support for outstanding researchers and their scientific projects
- Promoting scientific exchange through conferences, symposia, courses, seminars, and lecture series, and attracting outstanding speakers
- Fostering international relations and creating opportunities for encounters and exchange with internationally renowned researchers
- Supporting the establishment of international research groups and researchers in Göttingen, particularly from the next generation of scientists, to ensure an exchange between cultures and generations. This support includes the awarding of long- and short-term fellowships to researchers as well as travel expenses for international working meetings and conferences
- Expanding the existing multi- and interdisciplinary nature of the Institute’s research to harness the momentum of exchange for innovation
- Creating creative freedom through the integration of art and culture to introduce new impulses into research by serving as a bridge. Scientific exchange is to be supplemented and enriched by an artistic-cultural component, because creativity and communication are common prerequisites for research as well as for art and culture (art-culture component ancillary to science)
- Granting of awards to Institute staff to recognize special achievements and contributions to science, such as outstanding publications, the development of innovative working methods, or exceptional dedication to the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences