Funding opportunities for the doctorate

Content

• Guides4docs@MLU
• Overview, how-to, key steps, FAQ
• PhD positions at graduate programs
• Graduate funding from the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt
• StipendiumPlus – Talent development in higher education
• Subject specific funding
• Job vacancies
• Grants and competitions for innovations
• Databases
• Other

Guides4docs@MLU

This guide is part of the overview Guides4docs@MLU released recently by InGrA. Together with the following topics you can get a good overview of options and requirements during your future or current doctorate at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

• Research at MLU: Some research prospects for early career scientists in Halle (research4docs@MLU)
• Documents and forms for your PhD studies at MLU Halle (documents4docs@MLU)
• Starting the path to a doctorate (start4docs@MLU)

Overview, how-to, key steps, FAQ

Referat 6 Forschung, Transfer und Drittmittelservice at MLU

• Overview of individual grants for junior researchers (link, MLU-internal in English)
• Further programs to support careers in science (link MLU-internal in German)

Internationale Graduiertenakademie (InGrA)

• News upon funding

German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Individual Grants Programmes – A How-To Guide

Information from UNIBUND Halle-Jena-Leipzig

• Doctorate scholarships: key steps to a grant and FAQ by Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• Pathways to a doctorate – funding information by Leipzig University

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PhD positions at graduate programs

Economics, Agricultural Economics

• Ethics and Responsible Leadership in Business
• IWH Doctoral Programme in Economics (IWH-DPE)
• IAMO Graduate School

Physics and Chemistry

• GRK BEAM
• iRTG Ultrafast Spin Dynamics
• IMPRS for Science and Technology of Nano-Systems

Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy

• GRK TreeDì – 林地 – Tree Diversity Interactions
• GRK Plant Cell Compartments
• GRK Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
• yDiv
• Leibniz Research School PlantBioChem
• IPK Graduate Program

Environmental Science, Geography, Geology

• UFZ – HIGRADE

Education Science, Didactics

• GRK Interfach

Medicine

• GRK InCuPanC

Please also check the overview of graduate programs at MLU.

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Graduate funding from the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg annually provides funding for scholarships in accordance with the German Graduate Funding Act (GVBl. LSA [Bulletin of Acts and Ordinances of the State of Saxony-Anhalt] 2015, p. 613). The funding comes from the Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment of the State of Saxony-Anhalt. The annual provision of funding and the amount thereof are subject to the decision of the State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. Scholarships are awarded by the Graduate Funding Committee of our University. You can obtain further information and advice from Department 1 – Student Services, Division 1.3 – Further Academic Training, Tuition Fees, Scholarships and Elections.

Website of Ref 1.3 (in German)

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StipendiumPlus – Talent development in higher education

StipendiumPlus: more than just a scholarship, more than just one scholarship opportunity. Thirteen organizations for the promotion of young talent which have come together under the umbrella of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) provide support to students and young researchers with special talents. 

https://www.stipendiumplus.de/ (in German)

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Subject specific funding

• Hector Fellow Academy (for natural and engineering sciences, medicine and psychology)

Job vacancies

Employment in the form of a position in an externally funded project or a budgeted position funded from the university budget is common. Vacancies are advertised at the following websites.

• Job offers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (in German)
• Job offers at Max Planck Society
• Jobs and career at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Leibniz job portal of Leibniz Association
• Job vacancies at Helmholtz Association

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Grants and competitions for innovations

• List of innovation grants by transfer and entrepreneurship office (in German)

Databases

• ELectronic Research Funding Information System (ELFI): www.elfi.info (in German)
• DAAD Scholarship Database for Incomers (in English)
• mystipendium.de (in German)
• EURAXESS Researchers in Motion (in English)
• Hochschul-Job.de
• Academics.de
• ResearchGate.net

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Other

• Financing your doctorate by Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers (GRADE), Frankfurt (Main)
• Info Talks on DFG Funding Opportunities for Research Careers
• Overview of job portals for science, business and the non-profit sector by GSO