Funded visits abroad undertaken by guest researchers from Germany, by host region and funding organisation, in 2022

Western Europe, with a share of 30%, remains the key host region for guest researchers from Germany whose visits abroad in 2022 were supported by the domestic and foreign funding organisations included in this report. Other major host regions are North America (19%) and Central and South Eastern Europe (14%). These three host regions alone thus account for around two thirds (63%) of all visits by German guest researchers. By contrast, the shares of Asia and Pacific (11%), Latin America (7%), North Africa and Middle East (6%), Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe and Central Asia (4% each) are considerably lower. This focus on Western Europe and North America among guest researchers from Germany with regard to visits abroad is probably due to the high level of development of academia and research in these countries and the longstanding academic cooperation.
The various funding organisations are characterised by their different regional emphases. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) reported particularly high percentages of sponsored guest visits to North America (43% and 50% respectively). The smaller German funding organisations and the Max Weber Foundation primarily supported visits to Western European countries (44% and 53% respectively). By contrast, DAAD funding was more evenly balanced across the different host regions.