Our Austrian team under the lead of Katharina Warta has been entrusted with the evaluation of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative (PSI) of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, providing universities and research institutions in Germany with the means to host threatened foreign researchers for a period of 24 months on a fully funded research fellowship. The evaluation starts with the participation of our team at the Forum for Academic Freedom by the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany, on March 18-19 in Berlin, with focus groups with more than 30 PSI scholars.