The DFG is offering a variety of funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. To learn more about schemes suitable for postdocs join their online talk series “Prospects”. Some talks offer an overview and other talks are quite specific focusing only on one funding scheme. You will also get advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. … Continued
The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. Excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are supported by providing them with funds to be used for additional childcare and domestic help (1 year, monthly 400 €). The Foundation intends this contribution to enable young mothers to gain greater flexibility and time for their scientific work and thereby to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany’s leading scientific research. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme 2025), … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Prof. Laura Machesky (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK). … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Fellows are given the means to pursue their personal vision of a particular scientific project independently – in the best possible locations, anywhere in the world. The fellowship is awarded to postdocs for up to five years. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2025. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2025.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation is currently focusing its support on the field of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”. This programme supports molecular biological studies of illnesses whose development is based on genetic defects or with which gene variants contribute to the development of complex illnesses.
In the area of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”, … Continued
The Liebig Fellowship provided by the Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI) is intended to promote the start of a university teaching career in the field of chemistry. The aim of the 3-year fellowship is to enable chemists with a PhD – as well as young scientists from related fields – … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Career Development Strategies: From Deciding What’s Next to Getting Hired” by Dr. Alexander Britz.
Are you currently working as Postdoc or finalizing your PhD? Do you plan to transition to your next position in or outside of academia, but feel unprepared for the job hunt? … Continued
The jobvector career day is Europe´s biggest career fair for Natural Scientists, Physicians, Engineers, and Computer Scientists where you can receive valuable information for a successful career! Be inspired by talks of top companies and recruiters. Seize your chance and personally contact them at the fair!
Read more: Jobvector Career Day for natural scientists, … Continued
The LIFT-OFF Start-up Competition for the promotion of start-ups enters its next round. The competition is aimed both at people interested in starting a business and active founders (teams and individuals) from all fields. The competition is accompanied by various events and workshops and a mentoring program in the field of entrepreneurship. … Continued
The Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden is organising another series of online info events in German on how to apply for a HAW Professorship especially concerning the required application documents.
The virtual coffee break format consists of three 30-minute sessions and is aimed at anyone interested in a professorship at a university of applied sciences (HAW).In addition to input from the speakers, … Continued
Our Workshop Program for 2025 is now online available via this link. Feel free to scroll through and check out which courses might be of interest for your career development – either in acedmia or industry. Please note that the program is not complete as we are still finalizing a few courses. … Continued