The 2005 Conference for Chinese Association of Alexander von Humboldt
Fellows will take place on October 14 to 15 at the Sino-German Science
Center in Beijing.
Chaired by CAS President Lu Yongxiang, who is also president of the
Association, the conference will bring together several hundred Chinese
Humboldt fellows and their German colleagues. Dr. Georg Schutte, General
Secretary of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany, will also
be present at the meeting.
The conference will be comprehensive and touch upon various subjects
ranging from natural science, social science to humanities. Invited
lectures will be held on issues of economic development and the
environment.
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is a non-profit foundation
for the promotion of international research cooperation. It enables
highly qualified scholars not resident in Germany to spend extended
periods of research in Germany and promotes the ensuing academic contacts.
So far, the number of Chinese Humboldt fellowship awardees has reached
about 1,500.
As a get-to-together for such a community of outstanding scholars,
the conference has received support from such institutions and governmental
departments as CAS, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry
of Education and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.