Narratives can either drive or discourage people. Transformation researcher Karoline Augenstein is convinced of this. She wants to find out how narratives of the future can impact on the way it is shaped.

Ines Drefs is fascinated by research – and most of all by the topic of media development assistance A new position at the interface of science and practice came just in time.

Hoher Energiebedarf, Abfalltonnen voller Geschenkpapier – für die Umwelt sind die Weihnachtstage ein Stresstest. Muss das so sein? Wie lässt sich nachhaltiger feiern und schenken? Diskutiert darüber mit uns in unserem interaktiven Format Herrenhausen Xchange am 28. November - diesmal in der Innenstadt: im "aufhof" Hannover. 

The Volkswagen Foundation supports professors three to five years after taking up their first tenured professorship at a university in Germany.  Next deadline for application is April 24, 2024. Questions? Visit our online Q&A on Feb. 08, 2024 (in English).

The Volkswagen Foundation is funding the virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study with almost one million euros. The opening and the first conference have now taken place in Berlin.

With a two-part funding offer, the Foundation aims to bring together researchers and (civil) society actors to enable new perspectives on social transformation processes of democracy.