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The Minerva Center for Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging and the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging have each been extended for an additional six years following a successful evaluation. As a result, both Minerva Centers will be able to collaborate with their partners through 2031. more

The Minerva Stiftung mourns the loss of its long-standing member of the Minerva Fellowship Committee, Prof. Dr. Matthias Koenig. Matthias Koenig died on January 12 after a serious illness at the age of 54.  more

32 new projects were selected at this year's meeting of the Minerva Weizmann Committee, which took place at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot again after a two-year hiatus. For the committee, the meeting was special not only because of its location in Rehovot again. more

In his farewell address to the members of the Minerva Weizmann Committee, which met in September 2025 at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Ulman Lindenberger shared his journey through academic life in Israel. more

Lou Bohlen presented the Minerva team's work during a presentation at the Max Planck Society, discussing the impact of the past two years of war on their operations. more

Increase in family allowance and monthly scholarship rates further strengthen the appeal and the family-friendliness of the Minerva Fellowship Programme more

Deadline has been extended until December 3rd, 2025
In relation to the following topic: “Integration – Differentiation – Disintegration” more

Building bridges – that was an important message at this year's Max Planck Alumni Symposium at the Harnack House in Berlin from June 30^th to July 1st, which was open to Alumni of the Minerva Foundation for the first time. more

The Minerva Foundation and the Max Planck Society are watching with great concern as the conflict in the Middle East continues to escalate. Fellows from the Minerva Stiftung as well as employees of the Max Planck Society are also affected by the current escalation. The Max Planck Society is offering immediate psychological counselling through the EMAP - Employee and Manager Assistance Program, including in Hebrew, Arabic and Farsi.  more

On the occasion of the spring meeting of the Minerva Fellowship Committee, also the current German and Israeli Minerva Fellowship holders were invited to meet in Berlin at the Max Planck Society's conference centre, the Harnack House. more

On 31 July 2024, the future Minerva Alumni Programme was officially opened in the historic setting of the Harnack House. more

As part of the Max Planck Israel Programme, the Summer School between the Tel Aviv University and the Department of Law & Anthropology of the MPI for Social Anthropology took place at the Harnack House in Berlin from 27 August to 7 September 2024. more

This year's Minerva Weizmann Meeting took place for the first time at the Max Planck administrative headquarters in Munich from October 8 to 10 - an event held in extremely difficult times. more

The terrorist attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 was a major shock, especially for the German Fellows who were in Israel with a Minerva Fellowship at the time. Since then, nothing has been the same. 4 German Minerva Fellows report on how they have fared since then. more

Since 2014, the President of the Max Planck Society has awarded the Communitas Prize in recognition of exceptional commitment to the interests of the MPG. more

Space for exchange and confidence in difficult times  more

BMBF approves additional funding of 0.5 million euros more

President Patrick Cramer and a small delegation from the Max Planck Society and the Minerva Stiftung traveled to Israel at the End of November 2023. more

We, the Max Planck Society and the Minerva Foundation, condemn the horrific attacks by Hamas against Israel in the strongest possible terms. more

In a joint statement, several German science organisations, have expressed their concern for academic freedom in Israel if the proposed judicial reforms proceed more