Projects funded by foundations
Projects funded by foundations
The involvement of foundations in funding science and research is an integral part of Germany’s scientific community. A whole host of different funding options are available for science, research, teaching and studying in the form of scholarships, guest professorships, project-specific grants, printing and travel expenses, and scientific awards, to name just a few examples. The following pages contain a selection of the funded foundation projects available at the UDE.
To the academies and collegs (in german)
Cooperative research projects through the Mercator Research Center Ruhr
The Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR), founded in March 2010 by Stiftung Mercator and the Ruhr University Alliance (UA Ruhr), supports the strategic development plans of the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), the universities of TU Dortmund (TUDo) and Duisburg Essen and consequently the targets of UA Ruhr. MERCUR promotes both the profile building of the individual universities as well as their cooperation, thereby strengthening science in the Ruhr metropolis and making it more attractive for international vocations. To the UDE projects funded by the MERCUR funding.
Promotion of persons in the international field
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards fellowships and research prizes to highly qualified scientists for the promotion of scientific exchange. To the list of Humboldt research fellows.
Heinrich Hertz Stiftung
The Heinrich Hertz Stiftung promotes scientific exchange by awarding scholarships for international research stays.
Eligible for a Heinrich Hertz fellowship are:
- Scientists working in North Rhine-Westphalia who are planning a research project abroad, and
- scientists working abroad who are planning a research project in North Rhine-Westphalia.
To the list of Heinrich Hertz research fellows (in german).
PRIME (Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience)
With co-funding from the Marie Curie Programme of the European Union, the DAAD offers a new postdoctoral funding programme, "Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience" (PRIME), which provides positions for highly qualified young researchers of all nationalities and subjects instead of scholarships. The funding includes a 12-month phase abroad and a six-month integration phase at a German university, where the funding recipients are employed as postdoctoral researchers for the entire funding period.
PRIME-funded researchers at the UDE
| Name | Host | Provenance | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Domenik Schleier | Prof. Dr. Tina Kasper, Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften |
Leiden Observatory, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands | 2021 |
| Dr. Peter Fjodorow | Prof. Dr. Christof Schulz, Faculty of Engineering |
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute (Moscow) | 2020 |
| Dr. Leonid Ryvkin | Prof. Dr. Daniel Greb, Faculty of Mathematics |
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche | 2019 |
| Franzika Muckel | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerd Bacher, Faculty of Engineering |
University of Washington, Department of Chemistry | 2017 |
| Dr. Rachel Fainblat | Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerd Bacher, Faculty of Engineering | University of Washington, Seattle, USA | 2015 |
Selection of colleges funded by foundations
Academy in Exile
The growing awareness of the acute needs of academics emigrating from Turkey led to the founding of the Academy in Exile (AiE) in Germany in 2017. The AiE was founded as a joint initiative of the Institute for Turkish Studies (Prof. Konuk), the KWI and the Forum Transregional Studies Berlin.
It is based on a model that creates multidisciplinary cohorts of scholars from the same region and/or around a unified theme, with the aim that threatened scholars can continue their careers in Germany and work on a research project of their choice in a multidisciplinary environment.
Unlike other European initiatives that support academics at risk, AiE targets those who are specifically threatened because of their academic or civic commitment to human rights, peace and democracy. The fellows contribute to and shape the research agenda and intellectual profile of the Academy.
The VolkswagenStiftung provided initial funding and in 2017. Further substantial funding followed, including from the Mellon Foundation.
Mercator Graduate Programme Open-Mindedness, Tolerance and Public Engagement
With the guiding theme "Open-Mindedness, Tolerance and Public Engagement", the Research Training Group takes up a highly topical social issue and sets itself the task of analytically grasping the various historical and contemporary aspects and varieties of cosmopolitanism, tolerance and public spirit in pluralistic, democratic societies and illuminating them from multiple perspectives.
This academic debate is driven by various disciplines (theology, philosophy, social sciences, history, education, linguistics, cultural studies and political science, but also economics, engineering and life sciences).
Project management: Vice-Rector for Social Responsibility, Diversity and International Affairs.
Approval year: 2018
Duration: 4 Years
Research Training Groups of the VolkswagenStiftung
| Title | Project lead | Approval year | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models,Transatlantic Interventions Project lead: Prof. Dr. Barbara Buchenau, Faculty of Humanities |
2017 | 4 Years |
| MEDAS 21 | Global Media Assistance: Applied Research, Improved Practice in the 21 Century Project lead at the UDE (co-applicant): Prof. Dr. Jens Loenhoff, Faculty of Humanities |
2017 | 4 Years |
| To the VolkswagenStiftung | ||
Doctoral Programme of the Hans Böckler Foundation
| Title | Project lead | Approval year | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Die Politische Ökonomie der Ungleichheit Project lead: Prof. Dr. Till van Treeck |
2019 | 3 Years |
| Mediale Diskursivierungen von Arbeit seit 1960 Project lead: Prof. Dr. Rolf Parr |
2015 | 3 Years |
| Demokratie und Klimawandel Project lead: Prof. Dr. Claus Leggewie |
2011 | 3 Years |
| Widersprüche gesellschaftlicher Integration. Zur Transformation Sozialer Arbeit Project lead: Prof. Dr. Horst Bossong |
2011 | 3 Years |
| To the Hans Böckler Stiftung | ||
Selection of fundings in the foundation sector (in alphabetical order)
Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation
The Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation supports excellent basic research in medicine, biology, chemistry and pharmacy - for important, sometimes groundbreaking, new findings that secure the long-term health and quality of life of all of us.
| Title| Project lead | Duration |
|---|---|
| Perspektiven-Programm „Plus 3“: Computational design of molecules with therapeutic potential Project lead: Prof. Dr. Elsa Sánchez-Garcia, Center of Medical Biotechnology (ZMB) |
2015 |
Forschungsinstitut für gesellschaftliche Weiterentwicklung
Fritz Thyssen Foundation
Funk-Stiftung
The Funk-Stiftung's funding is intended to help further develop awareness of a methodical and analytical approach to risk assessment and management. To this end, the Funk Foundation focuses on research, education and practice projects.
| Ttile| Project lead | Duration |
|---|---|
| “Big risks”: perceptions, management and neuralgic societal risks in the 21st century Project lead: Prof. Prof. Dr. Andreas Niederberger (Faculty of Humanities), Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kiesel (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics) und Prof. Dr. Achim Goerres (Faculty of Social Sciences) |
2015 – 2019 |
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
The purpose of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung is to promote scholarship in the field of the humanities and its publication. The focus of funding is on the historical humanities, in particular on supporting research projects from the following disciplines: Archaeology, Historical Sciences, Historical Islamic Studies, History of Art, History of Law, Prehistory and Early History, and History of Science. For some years now, the Foundation has also increasingly turned its attention to topics related to the present and the future.
| Title| Project lead | Duration |
|---|---|
| Tomorrow is Today’s Uncertainty: Speculating on Futures in Early Modern Europe Research scholarship Project lead: Prof. Dr. Stephan Zelewski, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics |
2015 – 2017 |
| Election Violence in Zimbabwe, Research scholarship Project lead: Dr. Vimbai Kwashirai, Faculty of Humanities |
2012 – 2014 |
| Die Devotio moderna als Medium für Wissen und Wissensvermittlung und als Element des sozialen und kulturellen Transfers innerhalb der Rhein-Maas-Region (ca. 1350 – 1575), Conference Project lead: Prof. Dr. Jörg Engelbrecht, Faculty of Humanities |
2010 |
| Vorbild Dänemark – Lehrmeister Preußen? Die Heeresreformen des Comte des Saint-Germain in Dänemark (1762 – 1766) und in Frankreich (1775 – 1777) im Vergleich Project lead: Dr. Hanna Sonkajärvi, Faculty of Humanities |
2009 – 2011 |
| You can find more of the Foundation's funded projects here here | |
Hans Böckler Foundation
José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung
The José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung funds research projects on the causes and treatment options for leukaemia and related blood diseases. In doing so, it cooperates with university hospitals throughout Germany. In addition, the José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung supports psychosocial projects. Furthermore, the José Carreras Leukämie-Stiftung awards doctoral scholarships to students, research scholarships to young scientists and promotes scientific exchange through workshops and congresses.
Karl-Vossloh-Stiftung
The Karl-Vossloh-Stiftung has put (rail-based) mobility research on its agenda. There are usually annual calls for research grants with compulsory doctoral studies. As a private institution for the promotion of science, the Karl Vossloh Foundation can, by its very nature, only support research projects that are objectively defined and limited in time to three years.
| Title | Project lead | Duration |
|---|---|
| E-Logistics für regionale Güterverteilerverkehre zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Kombinierten Verkehrs (ELOKOV) Project lead: Prof. Dr. Stephan Zelewski, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics |
2012 – 2015 |
Mercator Foundation
UDE projects funded by the Mercator Foundation (in german)
Robert Bosch Stiftung
UDE projects funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung (in german)
VolkswagenStiftung
UDE projects funded by the VolkswagenStiftung (in german)
Welker Stiftung
The main focus of the Welker Stiftung is on the promotion of gifted people, especially young scientists, innovative projects in schools and training, new courses of study, research on the importance of values and religious education in politics and society, as well as research on the structure of the family and its importance for the future of our society.
| Title | Project lead | Duration |
|---|---|
| Johann-Wilhelm-Welker-Stiftungsprofessur für Ethik in Politikmanagement und Gesellschaft Prof. Dr. Christoph Bieber Project lead: Prof. Dr. Karl-Rudolf Korte, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2010 – 2017 |
Willy-Hager-Stiftung
The Willy-Hager-Stiftung promotes research projects in the field of environmental protection, in particular process engineering for the treatment of process and drinking water as well as waste water.
| Title | Project lead | Duration |
|---|---|
| Weitergehende Untersuchungen zum Fouling von Ultrafiltrationsmembranen bei der Aufbereitung von ölhaltigen Abwässern Project lead: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stefan Panglisch, Faculty of Engineering |
2010 – 2017 |
Selection of award winners
- Gottschalk-Diederich-Baedeker-Award
- Humboldt Research Fellows can be found hier
- Kind-Philipp-Award 2012 for Prof. Dr. med. Johannes H. Schulte
- Peter und Traudl Engelhorn-Stiftung Research award 2011 for Prof. Dr. Markus Kaiser
- Rüdiger Kurt Bode-Stiftung Water Resources Award 2018 for Prof. Dr. Florian Leese
- Volkswagen AG Woman DrivING Award 2014 for Dr. Ekatarina Nannen