The HfP’s success story has been followed nationally and internationally with great interest and amazement. The reform and renewal policy of Prof. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt, who has achieved many results as shown above, has been acknowledged and thanked by numerous top international researchers and public figures. Among the congratulators are:

• Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger (Chairman of the Munich Security Conference)
• Dr. Manfred Bischoff (Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG)
• José Manuel Barroso (Former President of the European Commission)
• Prof. Gabriel Felbermayr (Former President of the Kiel Institute)
• Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch (Vizepräsident des Bayerischen Landtags)
• Prof. Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins University)
• Prof. Kathleen Thelen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Prof. Michael Zürn (Director of the research unit Global Governance at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center)