CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship 2026-2027 for Researchers from Brazil (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: November 28, 2025

Applications are open for the CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship 2026-2027. The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship helps you – postdoctoral researchers and skilled researchers – along with your analysis in Germany.

In 2013, the Brazilian analysis funding organisation CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation launched the CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme. As a fellow, you’ll profit from particular person assist from the Humboldt Foundation and our various sponsorship portfolio.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation goals to realize a very good stability between genders and a excessive stage of variety amongst its fellows in all areas. They due to this fact expressly invite feminine researchers and members of underrepresented teams to apply.

Benefits

• Postdocs: Benefit from analysis sponsorship in Germany at first of your tutorial profession. The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship for Brazilian postdoctoral researchers lets you conduct analysis in Germany. The month-to-month fellowship quantity is €2,700 plus further advantages. Fellowships might final from 6 to 24 months and will be divided into as much as three stays inside three years.
• Experienced researchers: You can nonetheless apply for analysis sponsorship in Germany even in case you are already nicely superior in your tutorial profession. The CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship for skilled Brazilian researchers lets you conduct analysis in Germany. The fellowship quantity is €3,200 plus further advantages. Fellowships might final from 6 to 18 months and will be divided into as much as three stays inside three years.
• General circumstances: In addition to the fellowship quantity and extra advantages, additionally, you will obtain private assist all through your sponsorship. Prior to your analysis fellowship, you and your accomplice will be capable of attend an intensive language course. You are then versatile to find out the beginning date of your fellowship your self.
• Further monetary assist, together with household advantages for kids and companions and allowances for journey bills, can be out there.
• Alumni programmes: They keep involved even after your analysis keep has come to an finish. Their alumni sponsorship measures flexibly assist each Humboldtian’s particular person journey by means of life in each their careers and future analysis collaborations. A return fellowship or later visits to Germany are additionally doable.

Eligibility

• You have to be a Brazilian nationwide or have everlasting resident standing in Brazil. German nationals are eligible to apply offered that they’ve been dwelling and dealing in Brazil for not less than 5 years and on the idea of permanence.
• You have to be resident in Brazil and have lived exterior of Germany for not less than 12 out of the final 18 months.
• Confirmation that analysis services can be found/host’s assertion
• A researcher from an instructional establishment of your alternative in Germany will offer you a mentoring settlement and written affirmation that analysis services can be found in addition to compiling an in depth evaluate for you.
• Language Skills:
  • Natural sciences and engineering: You will need to have a very good information of German or English. 
  • Humanities, social sciences and drugs: You will need to have a very good information of German if that is needed for efficiently conducting your analysis. Otherwise, good information of English will suffice.

Application

Note that you could be solely submit your application after getting uploaded the next paperwork within the application kind:

• curriculum vitae (two pages max)
• analysis define (5 pages max)
• full record of your publications (cf. sample list of publications)
• record of chosen key publications (cf. sample list of key publications)
• key publications
• doctoral certificates
• German language certificates, if required
• if required: writer’s acceptance notifications and/or acknowledgement of receipt and summaries/translations of key publications that aren’t out there in English

In addition:

• host’s assertion and affirmation that analysis services can be found. Note that these paperwork can solely be uploaded in a protected space by the host personally. You can solely submit your application as soon as these paperwork have been uploaded.

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For extra info, go to CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship.