Selected calls for applications for awards, prizes and funding programs aimed at scientists of different fields and career levels.
Cross-status:
DFG funding opportunities
The German Research Foundation (DFG) regularly offers online info talks on its funding instruments for early career researchers (DFG funding for Postdocs, Walter Benjamin Programme, Emmy Noether Programme, Heisenberg Programme)
Hochschulperle des Monats
call 2025: projects combining research and innovation | Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. | applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Science and Transfer
Joachim Herz Foundation | application deadline: 16 May 2025
Preis der Deutschen Hochschulmedizin
for team achievements in the field of basic medical research as well as clinical or translational research in the field of university medicine | Deutsche Hochschulmedizin e.V. | application deadline: 6 July 2025
2025 EUHA Sponsorship Award
for diploma, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral theses | European Union of Hearing Aid Acousticians | application deadline: 15 August 2025
For postdocs / advanced researchers:
DGMP-Dissertationspreis
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Physik e.V. (DGMP) | application deadline: 31 May 2025
Wübben Stiftung Sandpit
Big Data in the natural sciences | application deadline 1 June 2025 | Big Data in engineering | application deadline: 1 September 2025 (application from 1 July) | Wübben Foundation
Emmy Noether Groups – Methods in Artificial Intelligence
German Research Foundation (DFG) | application deadline: 11 June 2025 (DFG registration: 4 June)
Night Science – Space for the Creative Mind
for Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences | Volkswagen Foundation| application deadline: 5 June 2025
DPG-Technologietransferpreis
German Physical Society (DPG) | application deadline: 30 June 2025
Hermine Heusler-Edenhuizen Prize for the best paper
School VI Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg | application deadline: 31 July 2025
