{"id":3116,"date":"2026-03-14T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:51:17","slug":"volkswagen-foundation-change-fellowship-apply-by-16-april-2026-qa-sessions-on-30-march-and-10-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/2026\/03\/14\/volkswagen-foundation-change-fellowship-apply-by-16-april-2026-qa-sessions-on-30-march-and-10-april-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen Foundation \u201cChange! Fellowship\u201d (apply by 16 April 2026) &#8211; Q&amp;A sessions on 30 March and 10 April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/12\/Volkswagen-Stiftung.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" style=\"width:346px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/12\/Volkswagen-Stiftung.png 450w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/12\/Volkswagen-Stiftung-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/12\/Volkswagen-Stiftung-220x55.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>With the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenstiftung.de\/en\/funding\/funding-offer\/change-fellowships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Change! Fellowhips<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenstiftung.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volkswagen Foundation<\/a> is looking for personalities from science who are  <strong>researching transformation processes together with partners outside academia<\/strong>. The target group of this grant (duration 4-5 years; 1.5-1.8m\u20ac) are postdocs and junior professors who gained their PhD at least 2 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Online Q&amp;A sessions<\/strong> will take place on <strong>30 March 2026 (10:00 to 11:30)<\/strong> and <strong>10 April 2026 (9:30 to 11:00)<\/strong>. Zoom links will be announced on their homepage shortly before the events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about this exciting funding scheme (eligibility criteria, guidelines and further information on the application procedure) check out the detailed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenstiftung.de\/en\/funding\/funding-offer\/change-fellowships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">webpage<\/a><\/strong>, which includes very <strong>useful FAQ Sections<\/strong> on different topics or see below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!selectors.core.file.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/03\/2026-11_guidelines_change-fellowships.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2026-11_guidelines_change-fellowships.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-1772d33e-5da3-4ce0-bdcf-e47706a4d542\" href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/03\/2026-11_guidelines_change-fellowships.pdf\">2026-11_guidelines_change-fellowships<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/03\/2026-11_guidelines_change-fellowships.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-1772d33e-5da3-4ce0-bdcf-e47706a4d542\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenstiftung.de\/en\/funding\/funding-offer\/change-fellowships\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Change! Fellowhips<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagenstiftung.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Volkswagen Foundation<\/a> is looking for personalities from science who are  <strong>researching transformation processes together with partners outside academia<\/strong>. The target group of this grant (duration 4-5 years; 1.5-1.8m\u20ac) are postdocs and junior professors who gained their PhD at least 2 years ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/2026\/03\/14\/volkswagen-foundation-change-fellowship-apply-by-16-april-2026-qa-sessions-on-30-march-and-10-april-2026\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,281],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3150,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.uni-goettingen.de\/gauss-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}