Many doctoral candidates fund their doctorates by working as academic assistants or assistants at the University’s institutes. These positions can be regular positions linked to teaching or administrative work, or they can be project positions in the context of research projects funded by third parties.
Scholarships from the gifted foundations
Scholarships from the State Graduate Funding Act
Scholarships for completing a doctorate
- FAZIT Foundation (independent of subject)
- Richard Winter Foundation (in the field of natural sciences)
Scholarships for women
- Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation (for female doctoral students with children)
- Bundesstiftung Mutter und Kind (for pregnant doctoral candidates)
- Gender Equality Office: "Schlieben-Lange-Program" (for female doctoral candidates with children)
Scholarships for stays abroad
- DAAD (short-term scholarship, funding period 1-6 months)
- DAAD (one-year scholarships, funding period 7-12 months)
- Fulbright Scholarships
Other scholarships
For doctoral candidates of all faculties
- FAZIT Foundation
- German Environment Foundation (DBU)
- Dr. Jost-Henkel-Stiftung
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (research fellowship)
- Catholic Academic Exchange Service (Scholarship Program 1, for foreign graduates)
- Catholic Academic Exchange Service (Scholarship Program 2)
For doctoral candidates in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
- WPA “Water People Agriculture” Scholarship
- H.Wilhelm Schaumann Foundation
- Andrea von Braun Foundation - knowing about each other
- Fund of the Chemical Industry (Kekulé Scholarship)
- Reiner Lemoine Foundation
- Foundation Nagelschneider. Research into sustainable energies
For doctoral candidates in the Faculty of Natural Sciences
For doctoral candidates in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
- Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
- Stiftung Bildung und Wissenschaft
- "Trajectories of Change" (ZEIT Foundation together with the Claussen Simon Foundation)
- Andrea von Braun Foundation - knowing about each other
- Science promotion of the Sparkassen Finance Group
Research Portal
Grants
- Gender Equality Office: “Mathilde-Planck-Programm,” “Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard-Stiftung”
- Grants for early career researchers from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences
- Travel grant for doctoral candidates in the Faculty of Natural Sciences
- Seed grants from the University Management
Printing cost subsidies
- VG Wort
- FAZIT Foundation
- Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund
- Esche Schümann Commichau Foundation
- Science promotion of the Sparkassen Finance Group
- Ius vivum study foundation