Projects funded by our Supporting Members
Beyond the annual dues, our Supporting Members each year give to a featured project that would otherwise not be in the realm of realization. Hereby, they strikingly underline their relation to the Max Planck Society. We are honored to present you a selection of past projects here.
With their donations, the
Supporting Members enable an interdisciplinary large-scale project that examines the connection between climate change, microbes, mosquitoes and infectious diseases.
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By funding a high-performance radar, the
Supporting Members significantly contributed to a unique field campaign aiming at a better understanding on how precipitation and clouds evolve above the tropical North Atlantic.
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For the first time the
Supporting Members donate a prize: The Max Planck Cambridge Prize for International Law.
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The history of milk and humankind: the donations of the year 2017 enabled an exciting project on the history of the development of dairy products and their effects on the human genome.
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According to the World Health Organization, almost 40 million people around the globe are affected by HIV, and more than one million suffer death due to AIDS per year. A promising research project was set up, aiming for better understanding of the resistancies and adaptation mechanisms of the HI-virus.
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Worldwide researchers investigate the characteristics of potentially interesting, but still unkown materials. With this project, the Fritz-Haber-Institute establishes the NoMaD (Novel Materials Discovery) Repository to host, organize, and share this materials knowledge in an open access database, a potential yet to be tapped.
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Pigeons are talented navigators: They can find their way back over hundreds of miles, but we still do not know exactly how they navigate. A project to find out just how pidgeons do this was funded by the Supporting Members' donations in 2014.
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In 2013 we used donations made by Supporting Members for an innovative historical guide and exhibition system at Harnack House in Berlin-Dahlem.
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The donations bestowed by the Supporting Members have first priority for a teaching lab in the new building at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt am Main.
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