Fellowships for Outstanding Junior Researchers (Post-Docs) of all Disciplines and Topics
Institution Type: | Nonprofit |
Location: | Germany |
Position: | Administrator, Fellow, Post-Doctoral Fellow |
The German Volkswagen Foundation is a completely independent non-profit foundation established under private law. With an annual funding volume of around 150 million euros it is among the country‘s largest foundations, and it i s the largest private science funding foundation in Germany.
Within its funding initiative ‘Freigeist’ Fellowships the VolkswagenFoundation is seeking for
10 - 15 outstanding Junior Researchers (Post-Docs) of all disciplines and topics
with unique ideas and convincing personalities.
The ‘Freigeist’ Fellowship:
- provides you with a reliable five-year timeline during which you are free to carry out highly innovative risk-taking research in projects located at the boundaries of established fields of research.
- includes, in addition to your own position (usually “TV-L 14”, German salary scale), family-related benefits for parents, positions for scientific personnel (e. g. doctoral students, postdocs) as well as non-personnel costs (e. g. consumables, travel expenses, equipment); Research stays abroad for up to two years can also be integrated into the fellowship;
- incorporates the possibility to apply for additional components during the funding period to ensure a high degree of flexibility;
- provides funding of up to one million Euro for the first five years.
Your qualifications:
Any candidate can apply who identifies with the goals of a ‘Freigeist’ Fellowship and conforms to the following conditions:
- You hold excellent academic qualifications, have published articles or monographs and you pursue a creative, innovative and visionary idea.
- You wish to work independently and in an interdisciplinary field.
- You pursue an extraordinary perspective or new methodological approaches.
- You are able to react constructively to potential risks.
- The doctorate must have been obtained not longer than five years previously.
- The Fellowship must from the outset be integrated within a university or an extra-mural research institution in Germany.
- Candidates must already have changed their academic environment and moved to a new location—or do this at the latest when starting the Fellowship.
- Candidates need to have international experience—or include a research sojourn abroad in the proposed project.
Applications must be submitted by: 15 October 2015.
We highly recommend that you consult the respective information for applicants published on our website for further details: http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/en/freigeist-fellowships
Contact: |
Dr. des. Johanna Brumberg |
Website: | http://www.volkswagenstiftung.de/nc/en/freigeist-fellowships |
Primary Category: | None |
Secondary Categories: | Humanities Social Sciences |
Posting Date: | 07/30/2015 |
Closing Date | 10/15/2015 |