Cook Bruns Foundation
The Cook Bruns Foundation pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes, in particular the promotion of science and research in architecture, urban planning, landscape planning and other areas of spatial planning in the search for solutions that serve to achieve UN sustainability goals. The foundation's purpose is to be realized primarily through the promotion of scientific internationalization.
Funding is provided to young researchers at the University of Kassel, including their research cooperation partners in Germany and abroad. Foundation funds are used if no or insufficient funding can be expected elsewhere for the measures to be supported.
Funding currently includes:
- Awarding the Cook Bruns Prize for very good research design of scientific theses, dissertations and postdoctoral theses, research publications, etc.
- The Cook Bruns Prize is announced annually in November.
Further funding formats are planned for the future:
- Awarding of scholarships, for example for the preparation and implementation of international research and development projects and scientific events;
- Awarding of investment grants;
- awarding grants for international publications.
Proposals for prizes and funding applications should be sent informally to bruns[at]asl.uni-kassel[dot]de
Proposals for prizes should be accompanied by a professional assessment of the work submitted. For the awarding of scholarships and grants, applications should outline the financing of the respective project, including the need for and scope of supplementary financing.
Proposals and applications for funding are assessed by a committee appointed for this purpose. The board of directors decides on the allocation of funds.