University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” Starter Grant Programme 2027 (up to €10,000) – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2026

Applications are open for the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” Starter Grant Programme 2027. The University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” promotes wonderful analysis on the University of Bayreuth (UBT) and advances the internationalisation of analysis and networking with the very best universities worldwide.

They invite the Grantees to perform their very own analysis initiatives in Germany in cooperation with an area host at UBT. The Starter Grants programme goals on the direct contact between the researchers themselves, subsequently the Administrative Office of the Bayreuth Humboldt Centre can not and shouldn’t be concerned within the seek for a number on the University of Bayreuth. The analysis initiatives shall profit each the candidate and the host.

Grant

• The award sum is €10,000.
• The Grantees can have the awarded sum at their disposal for overlaying 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 observe-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. 

Eligibility

• They award the Grants to people affiliated with establishments overseas with difficult and modern analysis initiatives of high tutorial high quality via a extremely aggressive, strictly benefit-based mostly choice course of.
• Applicants should have a PhD, and it’s indispensable that the PhD process is totally accomplished (together with PhD diploma). 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 range of awardees as an asset and are expressly dedicated to the purpose of gender equality. Female students and anybody who can assist make the analysis profile of the college extra various are strongly inspired to apply.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Starter Grant Programme.