Universität Leipzig: Research Funding

National and International

The EU, the German Research Foundation, the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and other federal and state ministries all support world-class research projects.

National Funding

Get advice on funding projects at the DFG, federal and state ministries as well as scholarships for doctoral students.

International Funding

We advise you on EU projects in the Horizon 2020 programme, ERC grants, and other international sources of funding.

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Going Abroad

Go to “International” for information about scholarships, teaching and research abroad as well as Erasmus+.

Doctorates and Postdocs

From initial support for your postdoctoral project to university doctoral funding – the possibilities are virtually endless. Read more about positions for doctoral candidates, state postgraduate funding, Sylff fellowships and re-entry scholarships for doctoral and habilitation candidates.

Studentin Marie Prötzsch (Mitarbeiterin im Akademischen Auslandsamt) und Doktorand Hakob Matevosyan, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Kulturwissenschaften)

Doctoral Candidates

Here you will find helpful information on how to finance your doctorate and on university doctoral funding.

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Our Flexible Fund aims to encourage junior researchers to initiate their own research projects.

Porträtaufnahme des neuberufenen Juniorprofessoren Dr. Martin Endres

Habilitation

We offer re-entry scholarships as well as assistance with junior research group funding applications.

Support for refugee academics

Porträtaufnahme von Dr. Ahmet Kerim Gültekin

One scholar’s story

Ethnologist Dr Ahmet Kerim Gültekin is a fellow of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative and a member of “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”, a Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies at Leipzig University.

Chance for Science

The Chance for Science platform connects refugee academics, employers and universities.

Philipp Schwartz Initiative

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Philipp Schwartz Initiative supports refugee academics.

DFG

The German Research Foundation (DFG) supports the integration of refugee academics into its existing projects.

Volkswagen Foundation

The Volkswagen Foundation allows the involvement of refugee academics in projects that have already received funding.

Get Advice Here

For more information on these initiatives please contact Dr Barbara Weiner and Dr Sindy Schug.

Newsletter Subscriptions and Research Tools

Funding databases

Newsletter Subscriptions

Research Funding Newsletter UL

Current funding

Here we present collaborative and individual projects, graduate research programmes and junior research groups that are currently receiving funding.

Forschungsflugzeug HALO "High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft" des SPP 1294. Foto: Carsten Heckmann

DFG Projects

The DFG supports projects like the HALO research aircraft, which is used for earth observation and atmospheric research.

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EU Funding

Professor Alfons Käs is using his ERC Advanced Grant to research the physics of cancer and cancer cells.

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Funding from Ministries

The BMBF funds the IFB AdiposityDiseases, a centre for the research and treatment of obesity.

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Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities

The history of Arabic literature from 1150–1850 is the subject of Professor Verena Klemm’s project for the Academy.

More about our current projects