Support Programmes for Researchers, Lecturers and Non-Teaching Staff

Heidelberg University offers several of its own grants to researchers and lecturers. Funding is provided for research as well as for study and teaching abroad.

For Research Projects

Central Research Pool of Heidelberg University
for start-up financing of petitions for third-party-funded projects

Innovation Fund FRONTIER of the Excellence Initiative
for small to medium-size research projects of outstanding scientific quality and high innovative potential

Marsilius Fellowships
for a one-year fellowship at the Marsilius Kolleg to work on an interdisciplinary research project

Research Group Leader Grant from the C.H.S. Foundation to support biomedical research
for research group leaders in molecular biomedicine (Ger)

For Women Post-Docs

Margarete von Wrangell Habilitation Programme
for women

Olympia Morata Habilitation Programme
for women

Schlieben-Lange Programme
for young women researchers with children

For Stays Abroad

ERASMUS Mundus grants for stays abroad
for stays in the Balkans or Latin America

ERASMUS travel grants for continuing education abroad
for continuing education at partner universities or foreign companies (Ger)

ERASMUS travel grants for guest professorships abroad
for up to a maximum stay of six weeks (Ger)

Global Networks
to support international exchange in outstanding research cooperations

Soheyl Ghaemian Travel Fund for Scholars
for travel to a library, archive or academic conference in the American studies

For International Researchers

Grants from the Götze Foundation
for young researchers from China working in the life and natural sciences (Contact)

For Non-Teaching Staff

ERASMUS Travel grants for continuing education abroad
for continuing education at partner universities or foreign companies (Ger)