Postdoc-Scholarships

The doctoral grade must be proven at the time of application or at the latest for the pre-selection for the 2nd round.

A Bauhaus Post-Doc Scholarship may not be awarded to candidates who are already receiving public funding.

Scholarships may not be awarded to full-time employees. Candidates are allowed, however, to work part-time in research or teaching at a university or non-university research institute for a maximum of 10 hrs. per week or other part-time work for a maximum of 5 hrs. per week (MdU 58/2019).

The funding period generally begins on 1 April. Funding for female applicants in summer 2021 can start in October 2021.

OBLIGATIONS - scholarship holders are expected to:

• give a public project presentation open to members of the university.
• commitment to the qualification and support of doctoral students at the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Thuringian Programme for female Postdocs: involvement in teaching
• a final report

Publications on the postdoctoral project are expressly requested during the funding period.

Please use the online application form with file upload for your application documents (in German or English).

Please upload your application (and accompanying documents, max. 15 MB) as one PDF file. The file name should include your first and last name. Please include the following documents in the order shown below:

1. Statement of motivation (max. 2 pages)
   - your motivation for further researching at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
   - how your project is connected to the areas of research at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
   - plannend involvement in teaching
2. Curriculum vitae (CV)
3. Project outline (max. 10 pages)
   explanation of the objectives, research overview, research theme, methods and selected bibliography 
4. Abstract (max. 1.600 characters including spaces)
5. Detailed timetable and work schedule
6. List of references including the names of two additional university professors
7. University degrees (master’s degree/Diplom)
8. doctoral certificate (including grade; as scan)

PLEASE NOTE – separate submission by the professor:

9. Letter of recommendation from a professor of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar with a statement regarding the project, as well as the academic and organisational integration of the post-doc scholarship recipient.

Please submit the letter of recommendation separately as a pdf file via the respective professor/department until 31 August 2021 to the scholarship coordinator: stipendien[at]uni-weimar.de

The awarding committee will make its funding decisions based on the quality, prospects of success and the sustainable impact of the post-doc projects from the point of view of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Furthermore, social aspects can be taken into account for the award decision if they are equally suitable.

Usually, applications are reviewed in a two-phased selection process - exceptions are possible in the summer call 2021: 

1. The awarding committee will make its pre-selection in the end of February / beginning of March.
2. Afterwards, the pre-selected candidates will hold presentations in March, upon which the commission will base its final decisions.
   
   In summer 2021: The committee will decide in September 2021 and will get back individually to the applicants in case of an invitation for a presention.  

• Attempts to deceive by applicants will lead to immediate exclusion from the application process. A further application is not possible in this case.
• Decisions of the committee will not be justified towards the applicants due to the absolute confidentiality of the selection procedure.
• The awarding is subject to the availability of funds.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp, President
Chair of the Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar