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A great opportunity for junior researchers in all disciplines: The ‘Freigeist’ initiative is directed toward enthusiastic and charismatic scientists and scholars with an outstanding record: through a highly flexible funding scheme junior researchers are given the opportunity to enjoy maximum freedom in their early scientific career.
ELIGIBILITY:
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.
TASK DETAILS:
Grantees are to be given an opportunity to develop an individual research profile at an early stage of their career. The funding initiative provides grantees with a reliable five-year timeline during which they are free to carry out highly innovative risk-taking research in projects located at the boundaries of established fields of research. The flexible funding offer can be adapted to provide for additional components that may arise during the funding period and to fit in with the grantee’s personal development. Funding may even be augmented at a later stage to permit the exploration of newly opened lines of research.
SCHOLARSHIP VALUE: projects in a total amount of up to one million euros can be granted.
DURATION: 5 years
DEADLINE: April 1, 2021
NO OF AWARDS: 15
HOW TO APPLY: For more information on the ‘Freigeist’ Fellowships, the next deadline and the application procedure: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/freigeistfellowships
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