Experience of Violence, Trauma Relief and Commemorative Culture: Volkswagen Foundation offers financial support for cooperative research projects focusing on the Arab world. Deadline: September 10, 2015.

The Lichtenberg Professor Dr. Christian Reinhardt and his team found out that the growth of specific tumors can be prevented by inhibiting two certain enzymes.

On March 25-27, 2015, researchers and international experts met in Hannover for a Herrenhausen Conference on "Big Data".

The physicist Stefan Hell, who is associated with the Volkswagen Foundation since 2001, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He shares the prize with Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner.

630 applications have been submitted in the second round of calls. From the many outstanding proposals, the Foundation selected 19 exceptionally innovative projects in the areas of the natural and life sciences and engineering.

On September 1, four new members were appointed to the 14-member Board of Trustees of the Volkswagen Foundation.