University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” Starter Grant Programme 2026 (up to €10,000) – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Applications are open for the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” Starter Grant Programme 2026. The University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” promotes glorious analysis on the University of Bayreuth (UBT) and advances the internationalisation of analysis and networking with the very best universities worldwide. Effective instantly, the Centre is providing the Starter Grants for the 12 months 2026.

The Centre helps tutorial change throughout present boundaries: between disciplines, between completely different cultures and international locations, between established and youthful researchers. Furthermore, the Centre engages in actions opening the analysis neighborhood to society and politics. Successful candidates will turn out to be Grantees on the Centre and revenue from the energetic analysis surroundings of the college and its seven schools. Applicants are inspired to study concerning the University of Bayreuth’s focus areas and analysis strengths.

Grant

• Award sum: €10,000
• The Grantees may have the awarded sum at their disposal for masking all prices of undertaking realisation. Grantees accompanied by no less than one child obtain an extra month-to-month household allowance of €250.
• If profitable, Grantees might apply for a comply with-up grant referred to as “Booster Grant” by the Bayreuth Humboldt Centre (award sum €20,000). This requires proof of the efficiently accomplished Starter Grant. Success should be documented in e.g. joint publications, a collectively organized workshop or convention or different outcomes of the starter funding. These success standards shall be evaluated through the choice course of for the Booster Grant.

Eligibility

• The grants are awarded to people affiliated with establishments overseas with difficult and modern analysis initiatives of high tutorial high quality by a extremely aggressive, strictly advantage-primarily based choice course of. The all-necessary choice standards are the tutorial excellence of each the applicant and the cooperative undertaking — mirrored, for instance, in excessive-rating publications — in addition to the potential for networking with the University of Bayreuth past the native host.
• They view the variety of awardees as an asset and are expressly dedicated to the objective of gender equality. Female students and anybody who will help make the analysis profile of the college extra numerous are strongly inspired to apply.

Application

Submit your full application by way of the on-line kind by October 31, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Starter Grant Programme.