Bridge Scholarship for Female Postdocs

The funding is available for:

• Female doctoral candidates, who afford a very good academic record and exam results, and have a special interest in and particular aptitude for scientific work.
•  Exposés for habilitation projects or independent academic or artistic postdoctoral projects meeting high conceptual standards that are to be registered and completed at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in the foreseeable future.

Further requirements - please note:

DOCTORATE
As a rule, no more than two (2) years may have elapsed between graduation (doctorate) and the date of application. Proof of the doctoral degree must be submitted by the requested scholarship start date at the latest.

EMPLOYMENT
Scholarships cannot be awarded to persons in employment; secondary employment is permissible, as detailed in the scholarship statutes of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Further details are regulated in the latest version of the statutes for the awarding of scholarships at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (currently MdU 58/2019, changed with MdU 30/2022).

FUNDING PERIOD
The six-month funding period may start on 1 April at the earliest and on 1 October at the latest. The final instalment of the scholarship must be paid in March 2024 at the latest.

REPORT
Funding recipients are required to submit a final report at the end of the funding period.

Please use the online application form with file upload for your application documents:

• language: German or English
• 1 PDF document (1 file incl. all attachments, please include name in file name).
• file size max. 15 MB
• not password-protected

Please include the following documents in the order shown below:

1. Statement of motivation (for the habilitation or scientific/artistic postdoctoral project and its relevance to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
2. Short description of the planned project (max. 3 pages + literature/bibliography + diagrams, where applicable)
3. Where applicable, an explanation of your personal circumstances and biographical hurdles, such as caring for a child or relative, a disability or chronic illness, your parents’ (educational) background, migration background, experience of discrimination, etc.
4. Time and work plan (for the funding period and, if possible, also beyond)
5. Tabular CV
6. Degree certificate (bachelor’s degree, master’s degree/Diplom/State Exam; doctorate; scans of certificates and marks transcripts)

PLEASE NOTE – separate submission by the professor:

9. Letter of recommendation from a professor of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar who has agreed to supervise the habilitation or independent postdoc project
- statements on the applicant’s professional aptitude
- statement on the planned project
- satement regarding the academic and organisational integration of the post-doc scholarship recipient into the department

Please submit the letter of recommendation separately as a pdf file via the respective professor/department until 31  January 2022 to the scholarship coordinator. For better comparability, they should use the Letter of Recommendation form wherever possible: stipendien[at]uni-weimar.de

The Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar will take the following criteria into account in the awarding of scholarships:

• Applicant’s suitability for academic work on a habilitation or an academic or artistic postdoctoral project meeting high conceptual standards (where applicable, outstanding academic achievements and final marks; where relevant, prizes/awards, publication record, experience abroad)
• Prospects of success: Originality of the idea and suitability of the project as the basis for a habilitation or postdoctoral project (research question, objective, state of research/theoretical basis, methodological approach where applicable)
• Schedule and work plan for preparation of the habilitation or postdoc project; where applicable, also already for the habilitation or postdoc project itself
• Where available: Relevance to the Bauhaus or the main research areas at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar; significance of the habilitation or postdoctoral project, taking the aspects of interdisciplinarity, internationality and gender into account

In addition to the applicant’s academic achievements, their voluntary work/commitment, social aspects and the student’s biographical hurdles will also be borne in mind

• Any attempts by the applicant to deceive will lead to immediate exclusion from the application procedure. Future applications will not be possible in this case.
• Due to the absolute confidentiality of the selection procedure, applicants will not be provided with justification of the committee’s decisions.
• The awarding of scholarships is subject to the availability of funding.

Prof. Dr. Andrea Osburg 
Chair of the Scholarship Commission at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar