Junior Faculty | Current announcements
Scholarships, Fellowships, Research Grants
On this page, we refer to a selection of current calls for applications for scholarships, prizes, research grants, or fellowships. Despite great care, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.
Research Information Service (FIT)
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January 2024
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
Studienförderwerk Klaus Murmann: Doctoral scholarship (up to 42 month) | 15 January | PhD | |
Hanns-Seidel-Foundation: Doctoral scholarship | 15 January | PhD | |
Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation: Doctoral scholarship | 15 January | PhD | |
Fulbright Germany: Fulbright-Cottrell Award to support an integrated teaching and research project (funding: one-off €63,000, awarded over a three-year period) | 29 January | Junior Faculty | |
2024-2025 DAAD-Postdoctoral Fellows: Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington, DC, from September 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025 | 31 January | Postdoc |
February 2024
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
Schering Foundation: Friedmund Neumann Prize for early career researchers, who have done outstanding work in basic research in human biology, organic chemistry or human medicine. (prize money: 10,000 euros) | 4 February | Postdoc | Biology, chemistry, medicine |
Information Technology Society in the VDE: Prize for dissertations in the field of information technology (prize money: 2,000 euros) | 5 February | PhD | Information technology |
Computer Science: Dissertation Prize of the Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. (prize money: 5,000 euros) | 16 February | PhD | Computer Science / Information technology |
Bernd Rendel-Foundation & DFG: Bernd Rendel Prize 2024 (for geoscientists before their doctorate) |
29 January- |
PhD | Geo scientists |
Rüdiger Kurt Bode-Foundation: Water Ressource Prize (for interdisciplinary & practice-oriented research work at the interface of science & society on the sustainable use of global water resources; prize money: 100,000 euros) | 25 February | Life sciences, natural sciences and engineering | |
Klaus-Tschira Foundation: KlarText - Prize for science communication (for researchers who have completed a doctorate rated "very good" in 2022 or 2023) | 28 February | Postdoc | Chemistry, biology, geosciences, physics, neurosciences and related subjects |
March 2024
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
Körber Foundation: German Study Prize (Annual award for the best German doctoral researchers in all disciplines, total value of over 100,000 euros) | 1 March | Completion of the PhD in 2023 | |
Daimler and Benz Foundation: Bertha-Benz prize for a young female engineer who has created added value for society with the results of her dissertation. (Prize money: 5,000 euros) | 1 March | PhD is < 1 year ago | Engineering sciences |
Science France: "Procope Mobility" scholarship program (1 to 3-month mobility to France for early career researchers at German universities or research institutions) | 10 March | PhD, Postdoc, Junior Faculty | |
VW Foundation: Funding offer "Change! Fellowships and Research Groups" (Focus: Potential of non-scientific knowledge sources for research on transformation processes; funding of up to 1.8 million euros for five years) | 28 March | Postdoc, Junior Faculty | |
UDE: Gottschalk-Diederich-Baedeker prize for research and technology transfer (Prize money: 5,000 euros) | 31 March | Postdoc, Junior Faculty |
April 2024
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
Avicenna Studienwerk: Doctoral scholarship for Muslim doctoral candidates (Start of funding in the following winter semester) | 1 April | PhD | |
Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation: Doctoral Scholarship | 1 April-30 April | PhD |
August 2024
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
2025/2026 DAAD-Postdoc-Programm „Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (PRIME)“ | 30 August | Postdoc |
October 2024
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
Nagelschneider Foundation: PhD scholarships (for sustainable energies, funding amount: € 2,000 per month, duration: 3 years) | 31 October | PhD |
Anytime
Call | Deadline | Career stage | Subject group(s) |
Fonds der chemischen Industrie: Liebig-Stipendium für Start der Hochschullehrer/innen-Laufbahn (3-year funding, equipment for the working group and a doctoral scholarship for a research assistant) | anytime | Postdoc | Chemistry |
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) - Forschungsstipendium (Duration: 6-24 months) | anytime | PhD, Postdoc | all fields |