External Funding Opportunities - Subsidies and Awards
In addition to doctoral grants, which allow you to finance your doctorate over a longer period, there are numerous other funding opportunities that you can benefit from in the course of your doctorate. These can be travel allowances for attending a conference or grants for the printing costs of your dissertation. On this page you will find an overview of the wide range of subject-specific and interdisciplinary funding opportunities.
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In addition to the funding opportunities in structured doctoral programs, there are numerous scholarship programs for individual doctoral studies. Find the right scholarship for you here and get advice from the Bonn Graduate Center!
Funding Lines by the University of Bonn
The University of Bonn has the right funding offer for you for every phase of your doctorate. Benefit from the wide range of funding opportunities for doctoral students.
Travel Subsidies
The University of Bonn supports international research stays of its PhD students within the framework of the Global Exchange. In addition, the Erasmus+ program of the European Union offers enrolled PhD students of the University of Bonn the opportunity to gain experience abroad through study visits, internships abroad, faculty or staff mobility.
In addition, numerous foundations award grants for travel by doctoral students (research, archive and conference stays). You can find a compilation here.
Travel Subsidies
Universität Bonn: Direktaustauschprogramm33 [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Target country: Worldwide
DAAD44 [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Target country: Worldwide
Fazit-Stiftung55 [website in German]
Discipline: Open, especially journalism
Target country: Worldwide
Details: Financial hardship
Fulbright Commission 66
Discipline: Open
Target country: United States
Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien77
Discipline: Open
Target country: Canada
JSPS Bonn Office88 [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Target country: Japan
JSPS Summer Program99
Discipline: Open
Target country: Japan
JSPS Fellowship short-term1010 [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Target country: Japan
JSPS Fellowship standard1111 [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Target country: Japan
JSPS Invitational Fellowship long-term & short-term1212 [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Target country: Japan
The Erasmus+ Program of the European Union 1313offers enrolled doctoral students of the University of Bonn the opportunity to gain experience abroad through:
- a study period at an Erasmus partner university in Europe,
- an internship abroad,
- teaching mobility,
- staff mobility.
Barbara-Wengeler-Stiftung [website in German]
Discipline: Psychology, neuropsychology, philosophical psychology
Target country: Worldwide
German Institute for Japanese Studies
Discipline: Japanese studies
Target country: Japan (Tokyo)
Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants
Discipline: Humanities
Target country: Host countries of Max Weber Institutes
German Historical Institute Washington DC
Discipline: History
Target country: USA
Helmuth von Glasenapp-Stiftung: [website in German]
Discipline: India research
Target country: India
Mesoamerika Gesellschaft Hamburg e.V. [website in German]
Details: Relation to Mesoamerica
Target country: Mesoamerica
Stiftung für Kanada-Studien [website in German]
Discipline: Canadian studies
Target country: Canada
Weichmann-Stiftung [website in German]
Discipline: Resistance to the Nazi regime
Target country: Worldwide
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung [website in German]
Discipline: Humanities and social sciences
Target country: USA
Discipline: Environmental protection
Target country: Worldwide
Discipline: Fundamental biomedical research
Target country: Worldwide
Details: Travel grants
Target country: Germany (German doctoral students going abroad and international doctoral students coming to Germany)
Target country: Worldwide
Target country: Worldwide
Details: Scholarship holders of the working group only
Target country: Worldwide
Target coutnry: Europe and Overseas
Target country: Worldwide
Target country: Worldwide
Target country: Worldwide
Target country: Worldwide
Details: Promotion of women
Target country: Worldwide
Details: Travel grants
Thesis Print-Cost Subsidies
Printing cost grants for dissertations are awarded primarily in the humanities and social sciences. As a general rule, only dissertations that have been evaluated very positively are funded. A few options are listed below; for a comprehensive survey of German research funding institutions, please consult the German version of this webpage. For subsidies on which information in English is not provided, international researchers may still be eligible to apply.
Print-Cost Subsidies
Amount: Dependent on project
Amount: up to 1/3 of the estimated costs
Amount: Full scholarship
Geschwister Boehriger Ingelheim Foundation for Social Sciences [website in German]414141
Discipline: Social sciences
Amount: €1,000 to €2,500
Fonte Foundation [website in German]424242
Discipline: Literature, German studies, English studies, Romance studies, Cultural and media studies
Amount: Dependent on project
Johanna und Fritz Buch Gedächtnis-Stiftung [website in German]434343
Discipline: Medicine, social & law sciences
Amount: Up to €1,500
Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund [website in German]4444
Discipline: gender related projects
Amount: Up to €1,500
Franz und Eva Rutzen Foundation [website in German]4545
Discipline: Archaeology
Amount: Not specified
Richard Stury Foundation [website in German]4646
Discipline: Aesthetics and dramatics
Amount: Not specified
ADAMAS Foundation Götz Hübner [website in German]4747
Discipline: Interculural studies German-Polish / German-Greek
Amount: Dependent on project
Barbara Wengeler Foundation [website in German]4848
Discipline: Interdisciplinary linkage of philosophy and neurosciences
Amount: Dependent on project
Deutsche Altamerika Foundation [website in German]4949
Discipline: American studies
Amount: Dependent on project
Society for Endangered Languages5050
Discipline: Endangered languages
Amount: Up to €1,500
Society for Missiology [website in German]5151
Discipline: Missiology
Amount: Not specified
Gerda Weiler Foundation [website in German]5252
Discipline: Feminist women's studies
Amount: Not specified
Gertrud und Alexander Böhling Foundation [website in German]5353
Discipline: Language and cultures of the Christian Orient
Amount: Not specified
Helmut von Glasenapp Foundation [website in German]5454
Discipline: India studies
Amount: Not specified
Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation [website in German] 3939
Discipline: Resistance against the NS regime
Amount: Not specified
Martha Muchow Foundation [website in German] 5555
Discipline: Pedagogy in elementary and primary level
Amount: Not specified
Foundation on the Promotion of Japanese-German Research and Culture relations [website in German]5656
Discipline: Japan studies
Axel Springer Stiftung [website in German]5757
Topics: German-jewish history, national socialism, Israel, DDR, totalitarianism, media history and transatlantic relations
Georg Strecker Stiftung [website in German]5858
Discipline: Protestant theology
Currently no funding options available
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Discipline: Neurosciences
Amount: Publication costs in peer-reviewed open access journals are partly or fully covered
Dissertation Awards
Numerous funding organizations, especially in medicine and life sciences, award prizes for outstanding dissertations. In our overview you will mainly find those prices for which self-application or an external nomination is permitted.
Dissertation Awards
Discipline: open
Age limit: up to age of 35 years
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Every second year changing topics
Age limit: up to age of 35 years
Discipline: Culture and history of Germans in Eastern Europe
Amount: €2,500
Discipline: Sustainable development of social work
Amount: €4,000-5,000
Discipline: Deepening of the democratic idea
Amount: €2,500
Discipline: Creative power of art and culture
Amount: €10,000
Discipline: Aging and work
Amount: €10,000
Discipline: Social market economy
Age restriction: Up to 40
Amount: €20,000 (for first place)
Discipline: Folklore and European ethnology with emphasis in Eastern Europe
Discipline: History and spiritual foundations of liberalism
Discipline: Deepening of the democratic idea
Amount: €2,500
Discipline: Public procurement
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Economic topics with environmental relevance
Amount: €2,500
Discipline: Social market economy
Age restriction: Up to 40
Amount: €20,000 (for first place)
Discipline: Practice-oriented business administration
Discipline: Capital market and regulatory law
Amount: €10,000
Discipline: Capital market law
Amount: €10,000
Discipline: Jurisprudence
Discipline: Market and customer orientation
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: History and spiritual foundations of liberalism
Discipline: Business and economics
Amount: €20,000
Discipline: Legal informatics and information law
[website in German]
Discipline: Analytical chemistry, material sciences
Age restriction: Up to 40
Amount: €3,000
Discipline: Computer science
Amount: €25,000
Discipline: Agricultural machinery
Amount: €4,000
Discipline: Electronic microscopy
Amount: Not specified
Age restriction: Dependent on award
Amount: Up to €10,000
Discipline: Engineering and natural sciences, energy technology and business administration
Amount: Up to €5,000
Discipline: Chemistry
Age restriction: Varies
Amount: Up to €7,500
Discipline: Biology, geo- and environmental sciences, agricultural and forestry sciences
Amount: €2,500
Discipline: Biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, physics
Age restriction: Recent graduate
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Natural sciences and engineering
Amount: €7,000 for first place, €3,500 for second place
Discipline: Social psychiatry
Amount: €3,500
Discipline: Neuropediatrics
Age restriction: Up to 36
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Medical technology, bioengineering
Age restriction: Up to 35
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Thoracic, cardiac and vascular surgery
Age restriction: Varies
Amount: Up to €10,000
Discipline: Psychosomatic gynecology and obstetrics
Age restriction: No more than two years after doctorate
Amount: €1,000
Discipline: Brain tumors
Age restriction: Up to 36
Amount: €10,000
Discipline: Multiple sclerosis
Age restriction: Up to 35
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Occupational medicine
Age restriction: Up to 45
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Neurobiology
Age restriction: Up to 35
Amount: €20,000
Discipline: Neurorehabilitation
Amount: €30,000
Discipline: Food research
Amount: €10,000
Discipline: Rehabilitation research
Amount: €5,000
Discipline: Aging and work
Amount: €10,000
Amount: €10,000
Amount: €20,000
Discipline: Dental implantology
Amount: €3,000
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