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Description

The Volkswagen Foundation is a non-profit-making foundation established under private law based in Hannover. Its objective is to support science, the humanities and technology in research and university teaching. Under the terms of its statutes it may support any field of science, but in practice it concentrates on funding initiatives that it develops itself.

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Volkswagen AG Funding

Lower Saxony Vorab

KLIFF - Climate impact and adaptation research in Lower Saxony

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Volkswagen Foundation
Kastanienallee 35
30519 Hannover
Lower Saxony
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)511 8381-0
Fax: +49 (0)511 8381-344
Email: info(@)volkswagenstiftung.de

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