Funding opportunities for PhD candidates

Funding opportunities for PhD candidates (selection)

1.Funding for the entire doctorate

Generic funding:

  • Universities
  • Doctoral colleges
  • Funding for research projects
  • DAAD
  • Gerda Henkel-Stiftung
  • Elsa-Neumann-Stiftung
  • CNRS InSHS
  • Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
  • MCSA Doctoral Networks der EU

Foundations close to a political party:

  • Friedrich Ebert (SPD)
  • Friedrich Naumann (FDP)
  • Heinrich Böll (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)
  • Konrad Adenauer (CDU)
  • Rosa-Luxembourg (Die Linke)

Faith-based foundations:

  • Avicenna-Studienwerk (Muslim)
  • Cusanuswerk Bischhöfliche Studienförderung (Catholic)
  • Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (Jewish)
  • Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst (Protestant)

2. Final phase funding for PhD

  • ‘Extensions’ of current thesis grants
  • End-of-thesis grants from your own university
  • Doctoral colleges, etc.
  • Fazit-Stiftung
  • Fund for Equality, Promotion of the Status of Women
  • Liselotte-Pongratz-Stiftung
  • Stiftung Bildung und Wissenschaft
  • ZEIT-Stiftung
     

3. Dissertation Awards

  • CIERA (‘Michael Werner’)
  • Körberstiftung
  • Prix des universités (EHESS, etc.)
  • Jean Carbonnier Prize
  • Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (‘Lieselotte Pongratz’ social sciences + ‘Johannes Zilkens’ humanities)
  • UFA/DFH
  • List of thesis prizes in France:
    https://okaydoc.fr/liste-prix-de-these-doctorat/
     

4.Mobility stay

  • Académie Francaise - Walter-Zellidja Foundation
  • French Embassy - PROCOPE Mobilité
  • Campus France
  • CIERA
  • DAAD
  • Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
  • IFRA-SHS
  • Max Weber Stiftung
     

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