Here is how you can finance your stay abroad:
| Purpose |
Target group | Project |
| Disciplinary courses, language courses, study or group travel, competition travel worldwide | enrolled doctoral students | Promos DAAD has been financing a mobility programme since 2011, which allows spending short periods abroad during study. |
| Research stays abroad worldwide | German expert scientists employed in an academic field in North Rhine-Westphalia | Heinrich Hertz Foundation |
| Research stays in the USA | German doctoral students | Fulbright Commission |
| Guest lectureships at Erasmus+ partner institutions of higher education | professors, lecturers, research associates, PhD students | Contact: Maria Homeyer (Coordination researchers/staff mobility) |
| Travel subsidy worldwide (e.g. conference participation fees, travel costs air/rail/road, accommodation costs etc.) | doctoral students and habilitants | Fazit-Foundation |
| Further training at Erasmus+ partner institutions of higher education (stay, job shadowing, language courses) | university staff in general | Contact: Maria Homeyer (Coordination researchers/staff mobility) |
Other funding possibilities
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service): The DAAD scholarship database informs about funding provided not only by the DAAD itself, but also other funding organizations which support stays abroad.
SAFIR (Research Funding Support): WWU's advisory service for external sources of funding for international research cooperation, doctoral study funding, stays abroad, event funding, etc.