The Re­search Unit (SG 2.2)

The team of the Research Department advises and supports you in all matters concerning the acquisition of third-party funds from public research funding - from the selection of the appropriate funding programme and the drafting of the application to obtaining the signatures of the university management as well as the required accompanying letters and certificates.

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Grants and ex­tern­al fund­ing (SG 2.3)

After your funding project has been approved and for all questions regarding contract research, the grants and external funding management team will advise you.

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R&D Leg­al ad­vice

Our lawyers (R&D) will be happy to assist you with legal questions during and after the application phase.

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Learn more about our ser­vice of­fer

  • Programme information and advice on calls for proposals from the federal and state ministries and at European level
  • Funding advice in the fields of basic research, applied research, research & development and start-up projects
  • Support in researching suitable funding formats for your project
  • Initial advice for newly appointed (junior) professors and postdocs
  • Strategic funding advice for researchers and departments
  • Feedback on the structure and persuasiveness of your proposal from a non-specialist perspective.
  • Feedback on the fit and consistency with the funding agencies' guidelines or topics in the EU Research Framework Programme
  • Advice on funding planning
  • Advice on project planning
  • Consultation with project promoters and EU contact points
  • Coordination with the university management and other responsible university offices
  • Advice on cross-cutting issues (e.g. gender equality, promotion of young researchers, research data management, internationalisation of research) and support with concrete formulation proposals
  • Office of the Senate Committee for Research and Academic Careers
  • Information on funding programmes of the Committee, assistance with applications and processing of funding applications
  • Advice on internal research funding through the research reserves
  • Information on patenting procedures and other industrial property rights
  • Support in completing the invention disclosure
  • Advice on industrial property rights and application strategy
  • Commercial exploitation of research results
  • Administrative processing of patent procedures, deadline management.
  • Cooperation agreements / subcontracts in connection with publicly funded research projects (e.g. BMBF, ZIM, EU)
  • Non-disclosure agreements
  • Accompaniment and management of contract negotiations with various partners from industry and research
  • Binational and bilateral doctoral agreements
  • Cooperation agreements with foreign universities
  • Legal questions on (grant) contracts of the DAAD, MIWF etc.
  • Grant and onward transfer agreements
  • Sponsorship agreements
  • Legal questions in connection with separation accounting
  • Accompanying the planning process for new Research Training Groups and Collaborative Research Centres at UPB.
  • Coordination of the committee process and coordination with the university management
  • Supporting the Research Commission in internal quality assurance at the university
  • Exchange and coordination process with DFG
  • Cooperation with the Jenny Aloni Centre in the development of measures in the qualification and counselling concept
  • Supporting the review process by the DFG

No­tice!

If you require a legally binding signature from the university management for your application, please contact us in good time, i.e. at least 10 days before the planned submission. Please note that the necessary coordination and clarification processes take at least one week.