Funding Opportunities

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Donating

Your donation supports one or several projects. We ensure that 100 percent of your donation supports the projects – effective, sustainable and without substituting public funds.

Scholarships

In choosing the young scientists you support, we consider the discipline or a specific country of your choice, if you wish so.

Partial scholarship for the participation of one young scientist in a meeting: 2.500 €

Full scholarship for the participation of one young scientist in a meeting: 5.000 €

Travel Expense Fund

From almost all parts of the world, each year around 600 young scientists come to Lindau. The travel expenses are only partially covered by our academic partners, the nominating institutions.

The Nobel laureates do not receive an honorarium for their marvellous service in Lindau. However, we do of course pay their travel and accommodation expenses.

Donation to the travel expense fund: 500 €

Expositions

Expositions arouse enthusiasm for science in societies around the globe and raise awareness for topical research foci. In the past, we were able to arrange several well-received expositions, which support in a creative manner the comprehension of scientific questions.

Examples:

  • Nobel Portraits
  • Sketches of Science
  • Accompanying publications to expositions

Uncommitted Donations/General Meeting Promotion

With uncommitted donations, you grant us the freedom to take decisions concerning the realization of the Lindau Meetings in order to optimize their realization and implement new ideas.

Earmarked Donations

The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings are equally appreciative of earmarked donations. This form of support is indispensable in realizing different projects, like expositions, science communication activities or publications, to name just a few of numerous possibilities.

Donations in Kind

Part of organizing a week-long event is the provision of transport opportunities, IT services, catering, meeting documents and much more that is necessary to contribute to a smooth and pleasant stay of the participants. Therefore, donations in kind can provide substantial support.

Donation Receipts

Your support for the new generation of science and the Nobel Laureate Meetings is tax-deductible. You will receive a donation receipt starting at the amount of 50 €. For this, kindly communicate your full address to us.

Bank Account Information

Germany

Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Deutsche Bank, Munich
IBAN: DE27 7007 0010 0800 1661 00
BIC (SWIFT): DEUTDEMMXXX

ODDO BHF Frankfurt/Munich
IBAN: DE70 5002 0200 0055 0039 09
BIC (SWIFT): BHFBDEFF500

USA

In the United States of America, donations can be made to a tax-exempt charitable organization under IRC Section 501 (c) (3) eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.

US Friends of Science and Research Inc. TIN/EIN: 81-1156789
TD Bank
Branch: 768 Franklin Avenue, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417
Account Number: 434 757 1609
ABA/Routing Number: 031 201 360

As individual contact information is not forwarded due to legal restrictions a short notice to donations@lindau-nobel.org is highly appreciated to ensure the gift is properly designated. 

Switzerland

In Switzerland, donations can be deducted from taxable income if they are paid to domestic institutions with charitable or public purposes.

International Science CH
Sparhafen Bank
IBAN: CH83 0680 8050 0089 2230 0
SWIFT: BSZHCHZZXXX

Endowing and Contributing

Following the initiative of 50 Nobel Laureates, the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings was established in 2000, to ensure the longevity of the Lindau Meetings. Meanwhile, 350 Nobel laureates have joined the Founders Assembly.

With its assets, the foundation forms a central pillar for financing the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Contributions ensure and expand the scope of action for hosting the meetings as well as the outreach programme – in short, the “Mission Education”. The foundation is grateful for donations from companies and individuals. These contributions are tax-deductible.

Donated Scholarships – Fellowship Funds

Edmond H. Fischer, Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1992, loved the exchange with young scientists at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, and they loved him. His insatiable curiosity, encyclopedic memory, urbanity, and generosity charmed all he met. We are therefore immensely grateful that the Vallee Foundation has endowed an Eddy Fischer/Vallee Foundation Fellowship Fund in his memory. This enables a participation scholarship to be awarded to young scientists in his name every year. We will never forget Eddy – and not only because of the fellowship fund that bears his name.

During the pandemic years 2020/21, the events of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings took place online. But no matter how interesting the digital formats are and how well they work across all time zones, they cannot replace a face-to-face meeting and exchange between young scientists and Nobel Laureates. In memory of the pandemic and in order to make it possible for future generations to participate in the meetings in Lindau, a group of supporters has come together and set up the Lindau Spirit Fellowship. Many thanks to all generous supporters.

These two examples show how diverse the motivation for endowing a scholarship can be. However, all endowed scholarships have one thing in common: they honour the eponym or an event, express gratitude or commitment to society and create lasting memories.

  • Edmond Fischer/Vallee Foundation Fellowship, in honour of Nobel Laureate Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021)
  • Franz Karl Hein Fellowship, in honour of one of the co-founders of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
  • Lindau Spirit Fellowship
  • Sharon and Lou Ignarro Fellowship, funded from the proceeds of the German edition of the book “Dr. NO: The Discovery That Led to a Nobel Prize and Viagra”
  • Simon W. and I. Anita Newman Fellowship, for young scientists from Great Britain

Even the longest journey begins with a first step. So, you don’t have to pay the full amount for a fellowship right away but can gradually increase it, win friends for it, take advantage of opportunities, stay connected. Every little donation helps, together we can continue to further raise the fellowship fund, offer scholarships and invite the best young researchers to the meetings in Lindau.

  • Former participants of the Lindau Meetings pay into a steadily growing Lindau Alumni Fund, which is enabling participation fellowships for future generations.
  • Women are still underrepresented in science. Even though the proportion of female young scientists participating in the Lindau Meetings is increasing from year to year, we have set up a Countess Sonja Fellowship Fund in honour of the long-serving President of the Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, in order to be able to specifically invite female young scientists to Lindau.
  • Horst Köhler, former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, supported participants from Africa. The Horst Köhler Fellowship Programme is currently inactive, as its funding has expired and – unlike the other mentioned fellowships – it has no endowment of its own.
  • Proceeds from the book ‘Economics for the Curious’ go into the specially established Economics Laureates Fund. The authors of the book, twelve Laureates in Economic Sciences, thus contribute to the financing of the Lindau Meetings on Economic Sciences

Contribution to the Capital Stock

With a contribution you strengthen the capital stock of the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings, which is professionally managed. Its yields support the annual Meetings in Lindau.

Bequeathing

Testament

Consider the Foundation Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in your will. You create lasting values, invest sustainably in science, and shape the future.

Community of Supporters and Contributors

The circle of Lindau supporters and contributors is continuously getting more complete. Some contributors are there annually, some only for certain disciplines, others temporarily or occasionally. If we may welcome you too in this circle, please contact us.

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Please Contact us for Further Information

Nikolaus Turner

Managing Director and Member of the Board of the Foundation/Treasurer and Member of the Board of the Council

Phone +49 8382 277 31 23
nikolaus.turner@lindau-nobel.org

Franziska Castell

Director International Benefactor Relations

Phone +49 8382 277 31 288
franziska.castell@lindau-nobel.org