External Funding
Apart from HIGRADE funding there are of course many external funding opportunities.
The Department of Research Funding (FOR) actively supports all UFZ staff in seeking external funding. A list with funding options open to UFZ is available in the
UFZ Intranet
.
Selected Funding Options
- https://www.scholarshipportal.com/
- DAAD scholarships for conferences
- DAAD scholarships for research stays
- DAAD: other scholarships
- Further training in Saxony, supported by Sächsische Aufbaubank: "Förderung von beruflichen Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen"
- 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
- for conferences: PLOS ONE Early Career Researcher Travel Awards in the Physical Sciences
- Financial Support for your Open Access publications - affiliation to Leipzig University required
- https://experiment.com/