Funding
From 2025 onwards, unfortunately we cannot provide funding for external training any longer.
However, certain aspects
of training can be supported through our format of special topics, see more information here
Selected External Funding Options
The Department of Research Funding (FOR) actively supports all UFZ staff in seeking external funding. They summarized a list with funding options open to UFZ in the UFZ Intranet .
Here in a list of selected external funding options (subject to change):
- https://www.scholarshipportal.com/
- DAAD scholarships for conferences
- DAAD scholarships for research stays
- DAAD: other scholarships
- Further training for people living in Saxony: Sächsische Aufbaubank: "Förderung von beruflichen Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen"
- Further training for people living in Saxony-Anhalt: Investionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt: "Weiterbildung (individueller Zugang)"
- Going abroad during your PhD: feel free to contact the International Office of your university for exchange programmes and funding!
- Funding at the end of your PhD: note that several universities offer scholarships for the final stage of your thesis.
- Funding for international conferences for doctoral researchers at Leipzig University
- Joachim Herz Stiftung
- GEO scholarship (stay abroad)
- Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (biomedical lab work)
- FAZIT Stiftung (stay abroad)
- Bayer Foundations Fellowshop Program
- https://www.mystipendium.de/
- e-fellows
- StipendiumPlus
- https://experiment.com/
- Funding of open access publications at UFZ