Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships 2026. The Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships help early profession researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America, who do analysis that matches to one of many 13 departments on the University of Konstanz. As a ZUKOnnect Fellow, you need to use this time to increase your analysis networks and to get to know the analysis surroundings on the University of Konstanz whereas retaining your place at home. As these fellowships can construct a primary bridge to the German and European tutorial system, additionally they encourage doctoral college students of their final 12 months to apply. The Zukunftskolleg won’t provide employment contracts for ZUKOnnect Fellows.

The Zukunftskolleg is an Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). It presents fellowships in addition to a various help community to advertise the independence of early profession researchers. Researchers on the postdoctoral degree can work with minimal administrative constraints and benefit from the freedom to interact in significant alternate with different up-and-coming colleagues in addition to with distinguished senior researchers. Researchers within the humanities, social and pure sciences come to Konstanz from world wide to carry out first-class analysis. The Zukunftskolleg is a keystone within the University of Konstanz’s institutional technique and the University of Konstanz is one in all Germany’s eleven Universities of Excellence.

Benefits

• During the on-campus analysis keep, a stipend of €1,300/month for doctoral college students and €2,000/month for postdoctoral researchers
• Standard bills for one economic system-class journey to Konstanz and again
• The probability to take part in occasions organized by the Zukunftskolleg
• Access to library assets
• Access to IT companies
• Access to analysis help companies (through Research Support)
• Up to €750 analysis allowance upon request
• Research Return Visit by a member of University of Konstanz to your home establishment upon request
• ZUKOnnect Fellows will profit from a digital affiliation extending the full interval to 12 months. The digital affiliation will probably be supported with as much as € 900 (lump sum)
• German language course (on-line and on website to be confirmed for 2026).
• Career Kit Plus – weekly sequence of seminars and workshops provided by the University of Konstanz employees members or exterior trainers (e.g. open entry, good observe in tutorial writing, profession views, funding alternatives, but additionally sight visits and different encounters) Programme for 2026 to be confirmed
• “Fellows go Local” – ZUKOnnect conferences with fellows, employees, PhD college students on the town, serving to to regulate within the native area supported by the Universitätsgesellschaft Konstanz

Eligibility

• You have been born AND work in a rustic in Latin America, Asia or Africa.
• You maintain a doctorate (max. 2 years, doctoral diploma granted after 15 February 2024) OR are a doctoral pupil in your last 12 months.
• Your doctorate was/goes to be accomplished at a college in Latin America, Asia or Africa.
• You don’t maintain a everlasting professorship, nor do you’ve got a habilitation or equal qualification (Venia legendi).
• Your analysis mission ought to tie in with one of many disciplines represented on the University of Konstanz.
• Track A: You ought to identify a researcher on the University of Konstanz with whom you plan to collaborate (no have to contact individual(s) upfront!).
• Track N: Nomination by one (Junior) professor of the University of Konstanz
• Preference will probably be given to candidates who plan to crew up with one in all our present Zukunftskolleg Fellows or throughout the Cluster “Politics of Inequality” or “Collective Behaviour”.
• Preference will probably be given to fellows from nations not represented in the neighborhood.

Application

Submit your application paperwork in English as separate PDF recordsdata through the online application form.
The reference quantity is 2025/251. Applications ought to embrace:

• A letter of motivation (together with your aims for the analysis keep on the Zukunftskolleg and an evidence of how your analysis ties in with the analysis panorama on the college; most 2 pages)
• Short abstract of your ongoing analysis mission (most 3 pages incl. references)
• An in depth work and time plan on your on-campus analysis mission on the Zukunftskolleg (most 2 pages)
• Your curriculum vitae
• Relevant certificates (doctoral certificates OR a letter out of your doctoral supervisor confirming the standing of your doctoral thesis)
• Track A: One tutorial letter of reference, on official letterhead paper and signed by the respective reviewer
  Track N: Nomination Letter by Konstanz (junior) professor will probably be despatched on to the Zukunftskolleg

Other further certificates and paperwork uploaded to the application platform won’t be thought-about and can manually be eliminated through the eligibility check.

For extra info, go to Zukunftskolleg Konnect Fellowships.