Funding Opportunities

You’d like to start your doctoral research? Your funding is running out, but you haven’t yet submitted your thesis? You’ve successfully completed your doctoral research and would like to continue doing research as a postdoc? There are probably various points along your academic career when you will be facing the question, “How can I cover my living expenses?” There are various ways to do so and different contact persons.

We at CERes will help you to identify which general ways of financing might suit you. If you are looking for guidance and support in terms of third-party funding for research and grant applications, please address our colleagues at SAFIR Research Funding Support.

After the successful completion of a doctoral degree, new methods present themselves of securing funding for your own research. Besides having a job as a non-professorial member of the academic staff at universities and research institutes, or associate and tenure-track professorships, you can finance your own job through applications for third-party funding (German Research Foundation, DFG), or for example through a junior researchers group (Emmy Noether Programme, DFG). It is also possible to submit a project application. Take up the offer of SAFIR Research Funding Support. After completing their doctoral degree, many researchers also opt to go abroad. Even before the oral examination it is possible to apply for P.R.I.M.E. funding from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) or for a Feodor Lynen grant from the Humboldt Foundation. Because follow-up funding is necessary, it is often ultimately a combination of different methods which see postdocs through this period.