Das Förderprogramm unterstützt herausragende junge Wissenschaftler:innen, die spannende Ideen an den Schnittstellen zwischen verschiedenen MINT-Fachdisziplinen umsetzen möchten.

Deadline: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: Postdoktorand:innen

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: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: Researchers in all disciplines who have qualified for a professorship

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: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: postdocs and junior professors

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: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: Postdocs

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: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: Students

Various kinds of scholarships for doctoral students exist which vary in their eligibility requirements.

Deadline: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: Students

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: 31. Dezember 2024

Zielgruppe: PIs

A joint program by GSO and Klaus Tschira Stiftung offering flexible funding and career development to promote researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science.

Deadline: 23. Oktober 2024

Zielgruppe: Postdocs

Interdisciplinary research is often particularly challenging and requires special efforts at newly emerging interfaces. In order to create an additional opportunity for interdisciplinary research and to make the achievements of scientists who conduct research at scientific boundaries more visible, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) launches an open call under the Reinhart Koselleck programme. The aim is to enable outstanding researchers with a proven scientific track record to pursue exceptionally interdisciplinary and innovative projects.

Deadline: 8. Oktober 2024

Zielgruppe: Scientists with interdisciplinary projects

Wübben Stiftung Wissenschaft’s Tenure Track Professorship program supports German universities in appointing and onboarding international talents for tenure track positions by funding the first years of the professorship.

Deadline: 1. Oktober 2024

Zielgruppe: outstanding researchers from abroad

The Rise up! programme is aimed at outstanding and exceptionally creative basic scientists in biology, chemistry, and medicine who have accepted their first appointment to an associate professorship at a German university. With Rise up!, they can bring forward an especially innovative research programme that may have a lasting impact on their field.

Deadline: 15. September 2024

Zielgruppe: Scientists with accepted associate (W2) professorship at a German university

With its Plus 3 funding programme, the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation aims to support outstanding junior group leaders in Germany conducting basic research in biology, chemistry, and medicine.

Deadline: 15. September 2024

Zielgruppe: Junior group leaders in Germany

Through open calls, new data and workflows will be integrated into EBRAINS to enhance the existing services and tools and thus foster innovation and collaboration, equal opportunities and ultimately accelerate the progress in the field of neuroscience and brain health. Additionally, workflows, models and simulations developed within the consortium will be tested and validated by external partners to strengthen use cases and scientific excellence.

Deadline: 2. September 2024

Zielgruppe: Applicants must be established in the EU Member States or Horizon Europe-Associated Countries.

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.

Deadline: 29. August 2024

Zielgruppe: Principal Investigators