Funding lines, awards, programs. Find a selection of current calls related to computational neuroscience and the Bernstein Network.
CZS Nexus
The funding programme supports outstanding young scientists who wish to implement exciting ideas at interfaces between various STEM fields.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: Postdoctoral researchers
Heisenberg Programme
The Heisenberg Programme is directed primarily at those researchers who have qualified for professorship via the Emmy Noether Programme, leadership of a junior research group, DFG project staff positions, private-sector research or mid-level faculty positions. The target group also includes junior professors who have received positive evaluations, those who have achieved their habilitation or an equivalent qualification, and German researchers returning from abroad, as well as appropriately qualified foreign researchers (who have not yet achieved a full professorship) looking to pursue careers in Germany.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: Researchers in all disciplines who have qualified for a professorship
Emmy Noether Programme
The Emmy Noether Programme gives exceptionally qualified early career researchers the chance to qualify for the post of professor at a university by leading an independent junior research group for a period of six years.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: postdocs and junior professors
Walter Benjamin Programme
The Walter Benjamin Programme enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: Postdocs
Scholarships for doctoral students
Are you looking for funding to realise your doctoral project? Do your previous study and examination achievements demonstrate a special ability with regard to academic work? Is your work making a significant contribution to research? Then become a doctoral scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom! We support around 150 doctoral students from all disciplines annually who are working on a convincing and innovative research project and have been admitted to a doctoral programme at a university.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: Students
Doctoral Scholarships
Various kinds of scholarships for doctoral students exist which vary in their eligibility requirements.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: Students
Funding Opportunity for Dutch-German Basic Research Projects in Fields of the Sciences (NWO Domain Science – DFG)
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) are pleased to announce a funding opportunity for joint Dutch-German research projects. The funding opportunity is planned as a three-year pilot for a joint Lead Agency Procedure with the NWO Domain Science. It is open for proposals that fit the scope of the NWO Domain Science and the corresponding DFG review boards.
Deadline: December 31, 2024
Addressees: PIs
ERC Synergy Grant (ERC-2025-SyG)
The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone.
Deadline: November 6, 2024
Addressees: Principal Investigators