Offers TRA Modelling

Funding opportunities for members of TRA Modelling

Open Call 2025

With the flexible Open Call format, TRA Modelling aim to support it's members in establishing new collaborations and joint research projects, promote and support early career scientists and offer opportunities for networking and scientific exchange.

Overview of past calls by TRA Modelling

TRA Modelling is financed as part of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments (2019-2026) and receives an annual budget. TRA members can apply for financial support for project ideas or events via TRA calls.

TRA calls and funding approvals since 2020

Open Call (ongoing since 2020)

Main flexible funding instrument for all members of TRA Modelling, e.g. for applying for seed funding, start-up funding for pilot projects or events.
More than 30 grants were made possible by the Open Call between 2020 and 2024.

Transdisciplinary Research Prize - Modelling for Life and Health (2023 & 2025)

Call for applications at the interface between mathematics or computer science and the research topics of “Life and Health” (together with TRA Life and Health)
Winner 2023: "Parcellation-free modeling of brain networks for presurgical evaluation of people with epilepsy²" by Prof. Thomas Schultz (Computer Science) and Dr. Theodor Rüber (University Hospital Bonn, UKB)
Winner 2025: "Random walks or directed paths? – Harvesting the potential of 3D modeling to uncover the impact of ontogeny on alveolar macrophage dynamics" by Prof. Ana Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz (LIMES) and Prof. Jan Hasenauer (LIMES)

TRA Incubator grant 2024 - Modelling for Sustainable Futures

Call for applications at the interface between modeling in mathematics or computer science and sustainability research (together with TRA Sustainable Futures)
Funded project: “AI-Diet” by Prof. Ute Nöthlings (IEL) and Prof. Rafet Sifa (LAMARR) between 2024 and 2026

TRA² - Transdisciplinary Research Prize (2024)

Overarching Call for applications by all six TRAs
Funding of three projects³ between 2024 and 2025

exTRA funding upgrade 2023

Short-term funding call for members of TRA Modelling
Funding for acute additional needs in seven ongoing research projects or doctoral theses

Collaborative Research Award - "Mathematics, Modelling, and Simulation for the Investigation of Climate Change" (2022)

Call for applications at the interface between mathematics or computer science and earth system modeling (together with CRC 1502 DETECT)
Winner: "Statistical Testing and stochastic processes for the Analysis of Modeled and observed Earth system Data (STAMPED)" by Dr.-Ing. Jan Martin Brockmann (IGG)

Central services of the University of Bonn

Consultancy on research funding

The funding opportunities by TRA Modelling are suitable as start-up funding for inter-/transdisciplinary projects that pursue the goal of a more extensive application for third-party funding (DFG/EU/BMBF).

Take advantage of the extensive range of advice and services on research funding relating to questions about third-party funding applications, as well as internal university funding lines. This is recommended already at an early stage of your TRA project.

Research Funding ⁴

FIT-Network

Use the central FIT database to find out early about calls suitable for your research.

When creating an individual user account for FIT, just select a TRA that suits your scientific profile best (regardless of existing TRA memberships). Your Bonn Uni-ID is sufficient.

Transfer

Results from TRA-funded projects could be relevant for transfer of knowledge and technology.

Contact the Transfer Center enaCom⁶ for advice in selecting public funding programs for start-up or transfer projects and in applying for transfer-related funding.

Funding opportunities for transfer ⁷

High Performance Computing (HPC) at the University of Bonn

This joint website of the HPC team at the University IT and Data Center (Hochschulrechenzentrum, HRZ) and the High Performance Computing and Analytics Lab (HPC/A-Lab) serves as your hub for everything concerning HPC. There you will find information on the central HPC systems at the University of Bonn, opportunities to interact with the HPC community and our partners (e.g. HPC.NRW), further training opportunities and articles on important topics such as publication policy.

All about HPC ⁸

BNTrAinee - Bonn Transdisciplinary Training in Artificial Intelligence Behavior

The existing AI expertise in computer science is structurally networked with various specialist disciplines as users of AI as part of the project, so that demand-oriented teaching/learning opportunities are developed together. The teaching/learning opportunities are provided via a learning platform.

Project page BNTrAinee ⁹

Open Access-Policy at the University of Bonn

Open access aims to share knowledge, make information accessible, and speed up academic debate.

The Open Access Service Center supports you in publishing your research, guiding you on guidelines, technical, and financial matters. With reference to these funding opportunities, TRA Modelling is therefore unable to provide any additional financial support for publication costs.

Open Access Service Center ¹⁰

Good Research Practice at the University of Bonn

Good research work is based on the basic foundation of intellectual honesty, both towards oneself and others and basic compliance with the fundamental principles of good research practice and the special factors relevant to each individual field. The University of Bonn places a premium on compliance with and communication of these principles by all of its members.

Further information ¹¹