Start-Up Scholarships for a Doctorate

[Translate to English:] Foto: Johannes C. Elze

The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar would like to attract outstanding students and graduates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar to start a doctorate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Students and alumni of all four faculties who are planning a doctoral project at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar can apply for a scholarship in the preparation phase.

In the funding year 2025/2026 in total 4 Bauhaus Start-Up Scholarships are available, 3 have been already awarded (as of 31 March 2025).

Still open: 1 Bauhaus Start-Up Scholarship

Funding:

1.000 Euros per month
funding duration max. 6 month
The funding period can be chosen anytime between 1st April 2024 und 31st March 2025.
Breaks are usually not possible.
opportunity to participate in doctoral preparation workshops

Requirements:

Only complete applications submitted on time will be accepted.
An application can unfortunately not be considered without a letter of recommendation.
There is no legal entitlement to the award of a scholarship.

The first deadline for applications is has ended on 15^thof January 2025.
Applications and selection decisions for any remaining scholarships are possible on an ongoing basis after this date - depending on the availability of scholarship funds, the latest deadline is 31 August 2025

Requirements

Eligible for funding are:

Graduates of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with very good study and examination results, special interest and aptitude for scientific work with outlines for doctoral projects that are foreseeably to be registered and carried out at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Please note:

As a rule, no more than 2 years may lie between the date of application and the date of graduation. The degree certificate must be available at the latest at the time of the scholarship application.
The scholarship cannot be granted to employed persons. Secondary employment is possible within the framework of the regulations of the scholarship regulations of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

The start date of the scholarship is April 1 at the earliest and October 1 at the latest.

Accordingly, the last scholarship payment must be made no later than March 2025.

Following the scholarship, the scholarship holders are obliged to submit a final report and, if applicable, proof of acceptance by the respective Doctoral Candidate Admissions Board that has been applied for or has taken place in the meantime.

Application documents

The application is made (in German or English) via the online form with file upload for your application documents:

language: German or English
1 PDF document (1 file incl. all attachments, please include name in file name).
file size max. 15 MB
not password-protected

Please include the following documents in the order shown below:

Letter of motivation (motivation for the doctorate and its location at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Exposé on the planned project (max. 3 pages + literature/source references + illustrations, if applicable)
Time and work plan (for the funding period and beyond, if possible)
Curriculum vitae in tabular form
Degree certificate (Bachelor's degree, if available; Master's degree/diploma; certificate and overview of grades as scan)
if applicable: an explanation of special personal circumstances and biographical hurdles such as caring for a child or relative, a disability or chronic illness, your parents' (educational) background, migration background, experience of discrimination, etc.
(Please enclose proof or have it ready for inquiries by the Commission)

PLEASE NOTE - SEPERATE SUBMISSION BY THE PROFESSOR:

7. Statement by a professor of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar who will supervise the doctoral project.
- should include statements on the applicant as well as on the planned doctoral project and its integration in the department.

Please submit separately by the respective department online as a pdf. For better comparability, please use the "Letter of Recommendation Form" if possible and send it directly to the scholarship coordinator.

Selection process

The decision on the awarding of grants is taken by the Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, taking into account the following criteria:

Suitability of the prospective doctoral candidates for academic work on a doctorate (outstanding academic achievements, if applicable: prizes/awards, publication or international experience)
prospects of success: Originality of the idea and suitability of the project as a basis for a doctoral project (research question, objective, current state of research/theoretical basis, methodological approach if applicable)
Work and time schedule for the preparation phase of the doctoral thesis, if applicable already for the doctoral project
If applicable: Reference to the Bauhaus or the research focus of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; importance of the doctoral project taking into account aspects of interdisciplinarity or internationality
Social aspects, biographical hurdles and the individual potential of the applicants in their current life situation can be taken into account in the awarding process.

Attempts to deceive candidates will result in immediate exclusion from the procedure. In this case, a renewed application is excluded.
In view of the absolute confidentiality of the selection procedure, no reasons will be given to applicants for decisions by the commission.
The selection is subject to the availability of funds.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timon Rabczuk
Chair of the Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Vicce President for Projects and Research

2024/25
2023/24
2022/23
2021/22
2020/21
2019/20

Leonie Link
graduate Architektur (Master), supervised by Prof. Dr. Mona Mahall
»Towards (Stories/Practices of) Spatial Disobedience In the Cracks of Western Modernity«

Enikő Charlotte Zöller
graduate Urbanistik (Bachelor), supervised by Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier
»Alltägliches Erbe zwischen Norm und Usus Serialität im (post)sozialistischen Mittelosteuropa«

Isabella Lee Arturo
graduate Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master), supervised by Prof. Ursula Damm
»Electronic Misfits: Artistic Practices For Technological Self-Determination Of Marginalized Individuals And Communities.«

Camilo Londoño Hernández
graduate Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master), supervised by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland
»Alphabet of Silence«

Dilşad Aladağ
Graduate European Urban Studies (Master),
supervised at the Departement Arts and Research
»Creating a "contra-cartography" of the endangered ecological constellations: Çukurova's nomadic pastoralists and wetlands«

Elham Asadpour Rahimabadi
Graduate Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master),
supervised at the Department for History and Theory of Art and Presentation Methodology in Design
»The Capital of Ruins. Reclaiming Forgotten Narratives in Iran Artistic Study on Cities as Archive«

Flora Hagedorn
Graduate Architecture (Master)
supervised at the Department for Theory and History of modern Architecture
»Eine holistische Architekturkonzeption - Die Produktionsästhetik des Jugendstils als Methodik für die Gegenwart«

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Ulas Yener
Absolvent MediaArchitecture, Professur für Gestaltung Medialer Umgebungen
»Fremde Türen. Interactive Media Archive as Realm of Memory Focusing on 60 years History of Turkish Immigration in Germany«

Beverly Engelbrecht
Absolventin Architektur, Professur für Darstellungsmethodik im Entwerfen
»Architekturen der Sexarbeit. Eine Untersuchung zweier Kieze in Berlin«

Alicja Sulkowska
Absolventin Medienwissenschaft, Professur für Archiv- und Literaturforschung
»Die zweite Demiurgie. Archivieren der Erinnerung und Materialisieren des Gedächtnisses in den Erzählungen von Bruno Schulz im Kontext polnisch-jüdischer Erinnerungskultur«

Farzane Vaziritabar
Absolventin Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Professur für Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung
»From MEN's places to OURplatz«

Maria Victoria Behler, European Urban Studies (Master)
Professur für Informatik in der Architektur
»The interrelation between social and spatial dimensions of social cohesion in a multi cultural context. A study on forced displaced people and hosting communities.«

Liese Endler, Absolventin Medienkunst/Mediengestaltung (Master)
Professur für Immersive Medien
»Labor für Bewegungsdrang und Immersion - mit der 360°-Kuppel zu körperzentriertem Interface Design jenseits von Klicks, Swipes und Touchscreens«

Nora Spiekermann, Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master)
Professur für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum und neue künstlerische Strategien
»Der Offene Kanal Europa - eine Forschungsplattform für Public Access Strategien«

Claire d'Incau, Absolventin Kunsterziehung (Staatsexamen)
Professur für Kunst und ihre Didaktik
»Emotionen - Beziehungsmodi zwischen Künstler, Rezipient und Kunstwerk«

Anna Lensen, Absolventin Medienmanagement (Master)
Juniorprofessur für Organisation und vernetzte Medien
»Zukunftsfähige Formate im Journalismus - journalistische Plattformen und wie sie sich aus Sicht junger Rezipierender in den Mediennutzungsalltag integrieren lassen«

Jakob Wirth, Absolvent Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Master)
Professur für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum
»Parasite Art - an exploration of a new artistic genre«

2019/20

Marcell Hajdu, graduate Europäische Urbanistik (Master)
Department for Spatial Planning and Research
»Urban heritage projects in the national identity politics of the Hungarian illiberal state«

Daria Kolesnikova, graduate Medienwissenschaft (Master)
Department for Image Theory
»Textilmuster der Avantgarde als Medien des Reproduzierens«

Husain Vaghjipurwala, graduate Europäische Urbanistik (Master)
Department for Urban Planning
»Investigating Housing Supply: its distribution and aggravation of Inequalities«

Yulin Zhang, graduate MediaArchitecture (Master)
Department for Landscape Architecture and Planning
»Memory · Village · Land: A Narrative Research of Landscape and Identity Preservation of Chinese Traditional Village under Rapid Urbanization«