Funding programmes, science and teaching awards
Paderborn University offers a series of university-own funding programmes and awards and will inform and advise you on external funding opportunities available for junior academics or specific target groups.
In addition, you can use the services of the Research Division: Among other things, the Research Funding Division will be pleased to advise you personally and according to your needs on national and European funding opportunities as well as on university-internal scholarship and support programmes.
Funding programmes and awards at Paderborn University
Research award “Kühne Ideen für die Wissenschaft” (“Bold Ideas for Science and Academia”) |
Grants and financing of research projects and trips by the Committee for Research and Junior Academics (FK) |
Scholarships and funding of research projects of postdoctoral researchers and junior professors with research assistant positions within the scope of the equality concept |
Teaching award for junior academics: Award for outstanding and innovative teaching concepts |
Sponsorship award for quality and innovation in teaching: Start-up funding for the realisation of an idea or implementation of a pilot phase for the improvement of innovation of quality in teaching |
Selected external funding programmes and awards
Heinz Maier Leibnitz Award (DFG): Award for honouring outstanding junior scientists and academics |
Innovation Award of the German State of NRW: Award for honouring researchers, who contribute to the realisation of ideas in an outstanding way |
| Teaching award of Nordrhein-Westfalen: Award for honouring outstanding teaching |
Junior Academic of the Year: Award for honouring junior scientists and academics whose outstanding commitment has an outstanding impact on science, research and development |
Innovation Award of the Vodafone Foundation: Award for honouring above-average work of junior scientists and academics in the area of communications technology |
Wolfgang-Ritter Award: Award for honouring outstanding scientific achievements in business administration and economics |
| German Thesis Award (Körber Foundation): Award for honouring dissertations of major importance for society in all disciplines |
| Dissertation Award of the German Informatics Society : Award for honouring dissertations in informatics |
| Bertha Benz Award: Award for honouring dissertations in engineering |
| Walter Benjamin Programmme (DFG): Funding of research projects for postdocs |
Junges Kolleg of the NRW Academy of Sciences: professional, financial and idealistic support of junior scientists in NRW |
Daimler and Benz Foundation: Scholarship Programme for postdocs |
Fritz Thyssen Foundation: Project funding the area of humanities and social sciences |
Fulbright-Cottrell Award: Fonding of teaching and research projects in the areas of chemistry and physics |
Gerda Henkel Foundation: Research scholarships in the area of historical humanities |
Lichtenberg Endowed Professorships: Outstanding scientists/academics, conducting research in innovative and interdisciplinary areas |
| DFG Emmy Noether Programme: Funding of a junior research group for exceptionally qualified early career researchers |
| DFG Temporary Positionsfor Principal Investigators: Funding of your own position for the duration of a research project |
| BMBF Junior Research Group: Funding of a junior research group in the context of topic specific calls |
| ERC Starting Grants: Long-term funding of groundbreaking frontier research for excellent early career researchers |
For information on the funding of international mobility click here.
Additional Information
Research Funding Information (ELFI): Information database on Research Funding |
Stifterverband: Teaching awards and honours for innovation and improvement of teaching |
NRW Ministry of Culture & Science: Funding programmes for junior scientists and academics |
Research service and advisory services of Paderborn University |
| Research Awards and Honours for Paderborn Scientists and Academics | …