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Bertha-Benz-Preis
Bertha Benz Prize 2025 advertised

Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards the "Bertha Benz Prize" to a female engineer who has completed an outstanding doctorate in Germany as a Dr.-Ing. The foundation wants to make an active contribution to supporting women in technical professions and to making their scientific skills publicly visible.

Dialog in the Museum
Generative artificial intelligence and the true, the good, and the beautiful

A lecture by Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel, Institute for Information Systems, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. This lecture can be followed in the livestream.

Ladenburg Roundtable
Gathering of Scholars, Fellows and Alumni 2024

From October 3 to 6, 2024, around 30 current and former scholarship-holders of the Daimler and Benz Foundation met in Wrocław, Poland. Along with joint excursions, the particular focus was on interdisciplinary exchange.

Social media
Discontinuation of activities on X

In view of Regent developments, the Daimler and Benz Foundation is discontinuing its activities on the social media platform X. For the time being, we will continue to keep you informed via the social media platforms Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

Ladenburg Roundtable
Is it essential to choose between mental health and maintaining the credibility of a statement in court?

Many people are exposed to potentially traumatic occurrences over the course of their lives – for example acts of violence, sexual assault, or muggings. Some people affected then develop a trauma disorder in the form of an acute stress reaction or ...

Dialog in the Museum
How does thinking work?

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Christian Doeller, Scientific Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, and Vice President of the Max Planck Society. The lecture is available as a Video podcast here.

Dialog in the Museum
Rumors and history - The importance of hearsay in Athenian democracy

In his lecture, Christopher Degelmann describes the role of rumors in the first democracy in human history, Athens in the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

Press information
The Aggressor: Self-perception and external perception of an actor between nations

The interdisciplinary project focuses on the question of how national and external aggressors are interpreted and how these interpretations shape national ideas. The Daimler and Benz Foundation has allocated approximately 1.5 million euros to the research project, which is funded as a Ladenburg Research Network.

Ladenburg Roundtable
Gender dimensions in research into over-indebtedness

In view of increasing over-indebtedness among private individuals, the research group surveyed the current state of research into the significance of gender and developed strategies to support them.

Ladenburg Roundtable
Language development of newly immigrated children and adolescents in Germany

The Ladenburg Roundtable intended to contribute toward research into how the language development of migrant minors can be improved.

Ladenburg Roundtable
“Ladenburg Roundtable” conference format

With its “Ladenburg Roundtable” conference format, the Daimler and Benz Foundation offers a free space for interdisciplinary reflection on research topics of scientific and social relevance. The roundtables are open to all disciplines.

Research in Africa
Foundation funds a new project to combat zoonoses

As part of a large-scale research network, the Foundation is contributing towards cross-border health monitoring between Kenya and Ethiopia. The focus is on combating diseases transmitted from animals to humans.

Wissenschaftsvermittlung
True Math: A journey of discovery through the world of mathematics

A journey of discovery through the world of mathematics.
Next stream: Wednesday, February 5, 2025.

Dialog in the Museum
Crises, disasters, turn of an era – new institutions for a resilient society

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Martin Voss, Head of the Disaster Research Unit, Freie Universität Berlin. The lecture is available as a videopodcast here.