

The project is funded by the Saxon State Ministry for Science and the Arts. The institutional partners in the Welcome to Leipzig project are Leipzig Science Network e.V., Leipzig University, the City of Leipzig, the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Max Planck Institutes for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI-MIS), for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) and for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI-CBS), the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences and the HHL Graduate School of Management.

New players are constantly joining the project, in turn enriching the network and facilitating access for international guests coming to the City of Leipzig. Within the project, launched in 2014, we have collected essential information about organizing a research stay in Leipzig for international researchers. Existing structures, including research institutions, authorities and the municipal government, have been consolidated to form a network together. In the gap where human resource departments and international offices cannot offer comprehensive individual support and advice, Welcome to Leipzig will provide additional support, information and contacts. The Welcome to Leipzig project aims to improve the structures for welcoming international guest researchers and highly qualified employees from all over the world and to simplify bureaucratic hurdles in the process of their arrival in Leipzig.
