Scholarships for Female Researchers

The Short-term Scholarship (3 months) aims to fund excellent early-career female researchers with a PhD who wish to start a new research project or continue a work already started using Gotha holdings for this purpose. When the next call for applications is coming up, it will be announced here.

The Initialization Scholarship (12 months) aims to fund postdoctoral female researchers who intend to apply for third-party funding to carry out an independently planned research project based on the Gotha holdings. This project should be associated with the University of Erfurt. Applicants must have completed their PhD thesis with an excellent result and within the past three years. Candidates should be renowned for above-average scientific accomplishments and aim at a career as an academic. They should either plan to submit a proposal for a third-party funded research project at Erfurt University or participate in the conception of a larger third-party funded project at Erfurt University.

Funding:

• Basic monthly grant of €1,600
• Family allowance of €300 for one child and €150 for any further child (if applicable)
• Funding for research expenses up to €1,000

Deadlines:

The application period is closed.

• Application deadline: 31 March 2023
• Latest scholarship start date: 1 November 2023

Application documents:

Candidates are requested to hand in a cover letter, CV, certificates, a list of publications and the data processing consent form. In addition, we ask for a draft of your research project (5 pages max.), a working schedule, a formal declaration of willingness from a professor at Erfurt University to welcome you as well as a letter of recommendation from another university professor (either from Erfurt University or another scientific institution). For more details, please see the call for applications:

Call for Applications 2023

This scholarship is funded by the “Professorinnenprogramm des Bundes und der Länder“.

The Postdoctoral Scholarship for Female Researchers (24 months) aims to fund excellent and experienced postdoctoral female researchers who specifically prepare for a career as a professor or who already fulfil the formal requirements for a full professorship. Candidates should have completed their doctorate, PhD or habilitation thesis with an excellent result and have at least three years of working experience in academia after their doctorate. The scholarship is supposed to enable female researchers to advance in a major project (e.g. their habilitation thesis) or to prepare a larger third-party funded project involving Gotha holdings.

Funding:

• Basic monthly grant of €2,000
• Family allowance of €300 for one child and €150 for any further child (if applicable)

Deadlines:

The application period is closed.

• Application deadline: 31 March 2023
• Latest scholarship start date: 1 October 2023

Application documents:

Candidates are requested to hand in a cover letter, CV, certificates, a list of publications and the data processing consent form. In addition, we ask for a draft of your research project (5 pages max.), a working schedule, a formal declaration of willingness from a professor at Erfurt University to welcome you as well as a letter of recommendation from another university professor (either from Erfurt University or another scientific institution). For more details, please see the call for applications:

Call for Applications 2023

This scholarship is funded by the “Thüringer Programm zur Förderung von Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchskünstlerinnen“.