Scholarships

Women are still underrepresented in the academic world. Financial aspects often represent significant barriers to pursuing scientific careers. Students or doctoral candidates with child(ren) or caring responsibilities are usually only able to pursue gainful employment to a very limited extent, if at all. Scholarships offer a welcome opportunity to reconcile family, studies and professorship appointments while being able to plan financially relatively independently. Numerous state institutions, research organisations and foundations across Germany and the federal states therefore offer support measures for young female academics with the aim of increasing the proportion of women in academia and research. In the following, we would like to give you an initial overview of internal and external funding opportunities in the form of scholarships and mentoring programmes for female students, graduates and postdoctoral researchers.