Education and research funding

Seminars for staff councils from public administration recognised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education as suitable for educational leave

Are you organising educational events for staff councils in public administration? Then the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB) can recognise your event as suitable for educational leave under certain conditions.

Have political education seminars of private educational institutions recognized by the Federal Agency for Civic Education as eligible for special leave

Are you organising an educational event on state policy for federal civil servants and judges? Then you can have your event recognised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BpB) as eligible for special leave.

Apply for funding for projects aimed at preserving, researching, and promoting German culture and history in Eastern Europe

Are you conducting research on German cultural heritage in the former eastern provinces of the German Empire, Eastern, Central-Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, or Central Asia? If so, you can apply for funding from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI).

Apply for funding under the funding guideline "KMU-innovativ: Research for civil security"

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) wants to strengthen the innovation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in civil security research. It also wants to support SMEs in exploiting corresponding market opportunities.

Apply for funding from the ESF Plus program "JUVENTUS: Strengthening mobility - for a social Europe"

The JUVENTUS program helps young people between the ages of 18 and 30 who have difficulty accessing the job market to go abroad for an internship in order to gain new experience and make a fresh start.

Apply for funding for the "KMU-innovativ: Materials research (ProMat_KMU)" program

If you are a small and medium-sized enterprise and want to carry out a new, unfinished project in the field of materials research, either alone or with partners from science and industry, you can apply for funding.

Apply for funding for the "KMU-innovativ: Resource efficiency and climate protection" program

If you are a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and want to carry out a new project in the field of resource efficiency and climate protection, either alone or with partners from science or industry, you can apply for funding.

Apply for funding for the program "Research for civil security - innovations in action - practical lighthouses of civil security"

If you as a company or research institution want to further develop an innovative and practical civil security research project, you can receive funding under certain conditions.

Apply for funding for the "Health research - GO-Bio initial" program

Are you a scientist with promising research results and raw, sketchy commercialization ideas in the life sciences? GO-Bio-initial funding could be your starting point for the further development of these ideas.

Apply for funding for model projects for the preservation of written cultural heritage

If you are an archive, museum, library, university or similar institution that preserves written cultural assets, you can apply for funding for model projects for the preservation of written cultural assets under certain conditions.

Apply for funding for projects of small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence

If you are a small or medium-sized enterprise and want to carry out a new, unfinished project in the field of artificial intelligence, either alone or with partners from science and/or industry, you can receive funding under certain conditions.

Apply for funding for the program "Measures to support universities in cross-border networking and applications to strengthen innovative capacity in the European Research Area (FH-Europe)"

Are you a researcher at a university of applied sciences? Then you can apply for funding via the "FH Europa" scheme, which you can use to finance the preparation of EU funding.

Apply for funding for the "KMU-innovativ: Information and communication technology (ICT)" program

If you are a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) and want to strengthen your competitiveness and innovative capacity in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT), you can receive funding under certain conditions.

Apply for funding for the "Software Sprint - Support for Open Source Developers" program

If you are a programmer and want to develop open source software as a creative solution to a social problem, you can receive funding under certain conditions.

Apply for funding for projects by universities, research institutions and companies in the field of ICT research

If you have an idea for the (further) development of innovative technologies in information and communication technologies (ICT), you may be eligible for funding under certain conditions. The aim is to transfer knowledge from research to industry.

Apply for funding for "Käte Hamburger Kollegs"

Excellent researchers from the humanities can apply for funding for a Käte Hamburger Kolleg at their university.

Apply for funding for research projects in the field of bilateral and international cooperation on world food security

If your research institution conducts research on world nutrition and cooperates with certain international partners, you can apply for a grant from the federal government.

Apply for funding for research projects in the field of international sustainable forest management

If your research institution conducts research on sustainable forest management and cooperates with partners from third countries, you can apply for a grant from the federal government.

Apply for funding for compulsory internships for young agricultural specialists from Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Germany

If your institution organizes stays for compulsory internships for agricultural students from Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, you can receive a grant from the federal government.