German-Israeli Human Rights Research Program Granted €4.5M

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for a new international research training group. The group, called “Human Rights Under Pressure – Ethics, Law and Politics,” will study contemporary challenges to the pursuit of human rights. The program will take the form of a joint interdisciplinary doctoral and research program carried out in cooperation between the Freie Universität Berlin and the Minerva Center for Human Rights in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

This is the first German-Israeli doctoral program to be funded by the DFG. Half of the €4.5 million program budget will derive from funds pledged by the Einstein Foundation Berlin.