Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Scholarships for refugees The Konrad Adenauer Foundation offers scholarships for refugee students. Bachelor’s and Master’s students can apply, as well as graduates (doctoral candidates). Application deadlines are 15 January and 15 July. |
Friedrich Ebert Foundation Solidarity Fund: support for politically persecuted people, foreign students, and doctoral candidates. Funding also for refugees without a residence permit. Applicants must be resident in Germany. Applications can be submitted informally and at any time. |
Philipp Schwartz Initiative (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
The Philipp Schwartz Initiative gives universities and research institutions in Germany the opportunity to accept at-risk researchers on a full scholarship for 24 months.
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Baden-Württemberg Fund for Persecuted Scientists The Baden-Württemberg Foundation has launched a funding program for at-risk scientists. The aim of the program is to give persecuted scientists the opportunity to continue their academic work in a safe environment at an institution in Baden-Württemberg. |
German Research Foundation (DFG)
The DFG offers researchers who have fled to Germany from their home country the opportunity to work on ongoing DFG projects at all stages of their scientific careers. Research projects that are already funded by the DFG can submit requests for additional staff and thus enable the involvement of refugee researchers. Furthermore, refugee researchers can also be funded directly in research training groups, collaborative research centers, and other DFG-funded joint projects. If you are interested, you can submit an a request directly to the directors of ongoing DFG projects or research training groups with reference to the program. |
Volkswagen Foundation Similar to the provision from the DFG, the Volkswagen Foundation offers refugee researchers who have been granted a residence permit as part of an asylum procedure the opportunity to work on existing DFG-funded research projects. Here too, the project management submits the application. If you are interested, you can send a request directly to the directors of ongoing projects funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. |
Science4Refugees The Science4Refugees Initiative helps refugee scientists and researchers to find suitable positions that both improve their own situation and make their skills and experience available to the European science system. |
Scholar Rescue Fund
The Scholar Rescue Fund offers scholarships to professors, researchers, and well-known intellectuals whose lives and careers are under threat in their home country. SRF places scientists at universities and provides financial support. |
Scholars at Risk
Scholars at Risk is an international network of universities and individuals committed to the protection of threatened scholars and academic freedom. |
Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA)
This globally active British NGO places at-risk academics at universities and offers them financial support. |
PAUSE - Collège de France PAUSE is a funding program for French universities and research institutes, analogous to the Philipp Schwartz Program in Germany. It enables institutes to take in at-risk scientists. It is open to doctoral candidates, postdocs, and experienced scientists. |
