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Funding

Main Sponsor

The main donor of the Humanism Project is the Mercator Foundation. Its focus is the support of the sciences and humanities, the promotion of educational activities and of intercultural understanding. According to its patron, Gerhard Mercator, the Foundation supports projects in the fields of scientific exchange and active tolerance between people of different national, cultural and social backgrounds.

Other Sponsors

The Humanism Project recruits additional funds for special activities within its scope. For example, the “International Conference on Human Identity and Cultural Difference in a Cross-cultural Perspective: The Interaction between the Self and the Others" in September 2007 was funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (Taiwan). The Volkswagen Foundation contributes to the financing of the conference on "Multiple Universalism. Exits of the Globalization of Cultural Conflicts" in April 2008. The 2006 “International Conference on Humankind at the Intersection of Nature and Culture" was co-financed by the North-Western University of South Africa. The Faculty of Humanities of the Duisburg-Essen University contributes to the financing of the semester meeting of the Graduate School.

Scholarships

Many members of the project received or are receiving additional scholarships. After his stay at KWI the Indian scholar Ranjan Ghosh was awarded an Alexander Humboldt scholarship. The cooperation between the Chinese historian Zhu Weizeng and the Humanism Project is sponsored by a grant from the Alfred and Cläre Pott Foundation. Jonathan Kriener, member of the Graduate School, was promoted by a DAAD scholarship for his research stay in Lebanon in 2007. In spring 2008 the project manager Jörn Rüsen received a research scholarship from the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies in South Africa.