The Joachim Herz Foundation awards ten “Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Economics”. The fellowships support PhD students and postdocs who work on interdisciplinary economic questions with an amount of up to € 12.500 over the course of two years.
The aim of the Summer Institute is to provide an interdisciplinary platform for sharing knowledge and discussing the importance and application of simple solutions to complex problems.
Starting in 2016 the Joachim Herz Foundation awards it’s German Prize for Economics every second year. The prize aims at fostering interdisciplinary research in economics and incentivizes innovative research approaches.