DGIA Foundation - Profile and Purpose

A Central Office has been set up at the seat of the Foundation to support the work of the organs, the Academic Advisory Councils and the staff of the institutes. It is headed by the Executive Director.

Contact:
Rheinallee 6
53173 Bonn
Germany

Tel. +49 228 37786 0
Fax +49 228 37786 19

E-Mail: dgia(at)stiftung-dgia.de

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The Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad (DGIA) is a legal entity closely linked to the German Federal Government located in Bonn. It comprises ten humanities research institutes.

The Foundation’s goal is to promote research with a focus on history, culture, economic and social sciences in selected countries and to promote a mutual understanding between Germany and those countries.

The DGIA Foundation is the only German research institute which is academically active abroad exclusively due to its programme of work. Through its own research, extensive publications, international events and numerous scholarships it makes a considerable contribution towards an international exchange through its institutes, in regard of questions, methods and results of humanities research. In this way it strengthens both the position of the humanities in Germany and that of German humanities in an international context.

The Foundation finances its activities almost exclusively through the annual contributions by the Federal Government, made available by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The annual budget amounts to approximately EUR 30 million. Moreover the institutes have at their disposal further funding from partners and sponsors amounting to approximately EUR 1 million each year.

In total there are over 275 staff, of which 100 are academic fellows, employed in the institutes and in the Central Office in Bonn.