The Cathedral Architect of the Cologne Cathedral, Professor Barbara Schock-Werner, will hold the 27th Bertha Benz Lecture on July 1st 2010. In her lecture, "The Cologne Cathedral as a Commitment", she will speak on the conservation of this World Heritage in Cologne. More ...

In June 2010, the Ladenburg Collegium "ClockWORK" presents the results of research on the internal clock and shift work

"From Lab to Labour" is the title of the conference, in which scientists will present the results of their laboratory experiments and of field studies in the working world building up on them. In the lab, they had first studied the fluctuations of cognitive productivity in the course of the day (diurnal variation), and then tested the results gained there in running shift operation in industry. More ...

Why Do We Need Rituals? 

The 14th Berlin Colloquium
of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation

On May 20th 2010

Which psychological benefits rituals provide is still largely unknown. The dialectic between ritual and habit has been the general subject of this conference, which, with new results of ritual research, aimed towards experts from science, the economy, politics, federations, and administrations. More...

A new series of seminars in the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation's Innovation Forum: "Absorptive Capacity - A Key Factor for Innovation Capability". The 4th Innovation Forum was concerned with external knowledge as a source of innovation, and discussed the role of absorptive capacity in a critical feasability-test. For a report, look here ......

The "Alumni of the Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz Foundation"

During the Fellowship Holders' Meeting in September 2009, an Alumni Association was founded. This wasn't the only accomplishment which made this meeting different from earlier ones. Why, you can find out here ...

		Fellowship applications deadline cancelled The fellowship applications deadline 1st March 2010 has been cancelled. Unfortunately, the foundation is not able to accept new fellowship applications. We will inform as soon as a new deadline for the applications has been determined. If you want to be informed about a new deadline, see here ...

More events

	The 13th Berlin Colloquium "Conference (on) Sleep" on May 27th 2009 intended to give those interested from the fields of medicine, science, the economy, from trade associations, politics and administration a well-founded overview over the current state of research on sleep medicine. You can find a report on the conference here ...
	Change of Management in the foundation's Executive Board: As of November 1st 2008, Professor Eckard Minx as President and Professor Rainer Dietrich as a further member of the new Executive Board. For further information, see here ...
	Conference proceedings of the 10th German Vietnamese Seminar (GVS10) "Physics and Engineering". More details see ...