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Minerva-Weizmann Program
Minerva Projects Programme* at the Weizmann Institute offers short-term visits
The Principle Investigators of the Minerva projects can invite German junior scientists for short visits to the Weizmann Institute, within the framework of their projects. Funding for these research stays will be provided to German doctoral candidates and postdocs by the Weizmann Institute. German Researchers interested in such a visit can submit their application directly to the respective Principle Investigator. For details and the list of ongoing projects see:
www.weizmann.ac.il/...
Thanks to the support provided by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF),
the first scientific contacts between Germany and Israel, which Gerhard Schmidt and
Amos de Shalit (both from the Weizmann Institute) and Otto Hahn, (then president of
the Max Planck Society) initiated in 1959, have since developed into a comprehensive
program that finances excellent individual and group projects at the Weizmann Institute.
The first agreement between the Minerva Foundation and the Weizmann Institute was
signed in 1964 and financed nineteen projects and a total of fifty-two scientists and
researchers at the Weizmann Institute. Since then, the agreement has been renewed
each year and secured funding for roughly 2,000 projects in chemistry, physics,
mathematics, and the biosciences. At the moment, approximately eighty projects
receive a total of € 3,580,000 annually. Many of the projects are based on close
cooperation with German scientists and serve frequently as springboards for new
projects and partnerships.
Professor Reinhard Jahn from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
chairs the Minerva Weizmann Committee which meets once a year in Rehovot to
select the projects.
(*) This program is jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and
Research and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).
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