Postdoc-Scholarships

The format is designed to enable outstanding postdocs to advance their academic careers through a new research project.

• for postdoctoral researchers who have completed their excellent doctorate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar or who have successfully completed postdoctoral research at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• support for innovative ideas that take up and complement the research priorities of the faculties
• The existing research priorities are to be enriched sustainably and through an original approach.

Funding: 2,000 euros per month
(if applicable, child allowance: 300 Euro for the 1. child, 150 Euro each further child)

Funding period: from April 2025 | duration 12 months
Extensions for a 2nd funding year are possible if the interim report is succesful and funds are available

This Thuringian programme aims to contribute to increasing the number of female habilitation students and professors. The awarding of these scholarships is intended to make it easier for women to remain in the science system and flanks the federal and state programme for the promotion of young researchers, which was launched in 2017. The recruitment of excellent female researchers and artists and their support in developing an international reputation, gaining sound teaching experience and developing further interdisciplinary skills makes an important contribution to the individual promotion of female researchers and artists who have completed their doctorates. The scholarships awarded at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar enable post-doctoral researchers and artists to further advance their university careers through a new research project or a new artistic endeavour and, in the long term, to even better fulfil the hiring requirements for a scientific or artistic professorship, thus further increasing their chances of being appointed.  

Within the framework of a program for female post-doctoral researchers, the second program phase runs until 2025 and 

• Start-up funding for the development of own research proposals or for the preparation of own artistic project proposals (6 months)
• Full funding for own research projects or artistic projects in order to bring them to application maturity in common funding formats (12 months)
• Final funding for the finalization or publication of research projects or artistic projects (6 - max. 12 months)

Female applicants for the Thuringian Program should be professionally and organisationally connected to a subject area of the university, but do not have to be alumna of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Separate call for proposals for start-up funding for female postdocs to enter the postdoc or habilitation phase, financed from funds of the Professorinnenprogramm III (female professors programme)

Funding period: from April 2025 | duration up to 6 months

Funding: 1 Brigde Scholarship (subject to the provision of funds)
A maximum of up to 2 bridging scholarships can be awarded to female postdoctoral researchers

2,000 euros per month
if applicable, child supplement (300 euros for the first child, 150 euros for each additional child)

The doctoral grade must be proven at the time of application or at the latest for the pre-selection for the 2nd round.

A Bauhaus Post-Doc Scholarship may not be awarded to candidates who are already receiving public funding.

Scholarships may not be awarded to full-time employees. Candidates are allowed, however, to work part-time in research or teaching at a university or non-university research institute for a maximum of 12 hrs. per week or other part-time work for a maximum of 5 hrs. per week (MdU 58/2019, changed with MdU 30/2022).

The funding period generally begins on 1 April.

Accompanying activities - the following is conceivable: 

• give a public project presentation open to members of the university.
• Thuringian Programme for female Postdocs: involvement in teaching
• interest in supporting doctoral candidates the Bauhaus University Weimar
• Publications on the postdoctoral project are expressly encouraged during the funding period.

A final report must be drawn up at the end of the funding period.

The scholarship award committee at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar decides on the basis of the quality, feasibility, prospects of success and sustainability of the postdoctoral project applied for from the perspective of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Furthermore, social aspects and biographical hurdles can be taken into account.

Usually, applications are reviewed in a two-phased selection process:

1. The awarding committee will make its pre-selection in the end of February / beginning of March.
2. The presentations of the previously selected applicants are expected to take place at the beginning of March 2025. (tba)

||| Different deadline apply for the summer call. |||

• Attempts to deceive by applicants will lead to immediate exclusion from the application process. A further application is not possible in this case.
• Decisions of the committee will not be justified towards the applicants due to the absolute confidentiality of the selection procedure.
• The awarding is subject to the availability of funds.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Timon Rabczuk, Vice President for Projcts and Research
Chair of the Scholarship Commission of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar