The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar awards scholarships and funding of varying duration to early stage researchers on a regular basis. The Bauhaus Research School provides advice on the wide range of funding options to support doctoral candidates and Post-Docs of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Students can find scholarships here.
Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung: Scholarships, start October 2020 - apply until 24 April 2020
Up to 2 scholarships for doctoral candidates by the Ernst-Abbe-Stiftung (1.200 € per month for projects from all fields for 2 years). The Presidium decides on the selection of the applications based on the quality; up to two excellent applications can be submitted per university.
The BRS Team supports the preparation of your application documents and coordinates the submission process: research-school[at]uni-weimar.de
The supervising professors may submit the complete application documents of promising doctoral candidates as 1 pdf file via email until 24th of April 2020:
- at the Dean's office (management of the respective faculty)
- and parallel at the Bauhaus Research School
Required application documents:
- call and further information
- Submission process at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, spring 2020
Annually, several calls for applications are published at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar for young researchers, artists and designers in autumn. The call for applications for 2020/21 has ended. The new call for 2021/22 is expected to end on 12th of January 2021.
In addition, a wide range of funding institutions provide scholarships for young researchers, for example the 13 organizations for the promotion of young talent, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Other scholarship donors can be found via scholarship databases.
Partial grants
Other funding options directly at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar:
- Congress Expense Fund by the Equal Opportunities office
- the Women's Promotion Fund
- the Kreativfonds
- the Open-Access-Publication Fund
- the neudeli-Fellowship
- or funding at the International Office.
The Bauhaus Research School offers various support for doctoral candidates, too:
- Welt.Raum.Bauhaus: Conference and exhibitions trips abroad
- Welt.Raum.Bauhaus: Research stays abroad
- Welt.Raum.Bauhaus: Grants for proofreading and translation services
- Erasmus+ support for language courses abroad - send an email until 30 June 2020
- refund of printing costs for the doctoral thesis - for on an ongoing basis until June 1st and November 1st