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The Gerda Henkel Foundation has been promoting research in the field of historical humanities since it was established in the summer of 1976 .
In over 40 years of foundation activity, more than 7,600 research projects have been supported with around 225 million euros worldwide. The core areas of funding activity – supporting research projects and awarding doctoral and research grants – have been expanded time and again to include funding initiatives with which the foundation sets new and independent accents in the promotion of science.
These include the international Gerda Henkel Prize, which was announced for the first time in 2006 and is endowed with 100,000 euros, for outstanding scientific achievements in the disciplines and funding areas funded by the foundation, the LISA science portal launched in 2010 and the special program Security, Society and State . As part of the Lisa Maskell scholarship program, the foundation has been promoting young humanities scholars in Africa and Southeast Asia since 2014 . In its “Patrimonies” funding priority, the foundation is increasingly committed to the preservation of cultural heritage, especially in crisis regions. Research that places current problems in larger historical contexts is at the center of the funding prioritiesDemocracy as utopia, experience and threat as well as lost cities. Perception of and living with abandoned cities in the cultures of the world . In connection with funded projects, the foundation also supports accompanying social measures as part of supplementary projects.
