The Bauhaus Research School supports doctoral candidates in developing their own academic, artistic and creative profile by funding their international mobility. We therefore support research stays abroad by awarding grants for travel and accommodation expenses.
Application deadline 2023:
31.12.
Application deadline 2024:
28.02. 15.05. 15.10. 31.12
!!! The funding regulations have been updated for journeys from 2024 onwards !!!
Who can be funded?
Only doctoral candidates enrolled at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are eligible for funding. The condition is acceptance to a doctorate by the Doctoral Candidate Admissions Board of your respective faculty. Those who have already passed the defense of their doctoral thesis cannot be funded.
What can be funded?
- Funding is granted for research stays at a university, research facility or practical partner abroad. The research projects have to be closely related to the doctorate (e.g. literature research, field research, recordings, analysis). This relationship must be detailed in a comprehensible manner in a supplementary report from your supervising professor at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (in the context of the Doctoral Degree Programme Art and Design, a letter of recommendation of your artistic or scientific mentor is possible)
- The travel (arrival and departure) and accommodation expenses for max. 4 weeks will be granted with max. 50,00 € per day, but not more than max. 250,00 € per week. If the trip to the destination country cannot take place due to the pandemic: You can start your research stay online from Germany, provided that the selected host institution offers digitally supported research formats. Please clarify in advance with the Bauhaus Research School which costs may be incurred and whether they are eligible for funding.
- The trip should start in Germany so that travel expenses can be reimbursed. In justified exceptional cases, the Commission will decide on the financing of travel expenses. Accommodation costs are not affected by this regulation.
- Flight costs for trips with less than 1.000 km distance can only be funded if one-way travel time is min. 12 hours (acc. the Thuringian Travel Expenses Act as well as resolution of universities directorate per 17.02.2021). In justified exceptional cases, the Commission will decide on the funding of air travel costs.
- Sustainability supplement: If at least 70% of the actual travel costs for sustainable travel (by bus, train and carpooling) are not covered by the funding amount, a sustainability supplement of up to 50 euros can be granted as part of the funding settlement.
- The Bauhaus Research School does not award funding for any costs also being covered by third parties (e.g. other facilities of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, DAAD, foundations). The applicant is obliged to inform the Bauhaus Research School of any other funding awarded and/or approved or denied by third parties.
- The travel period and destination country may be changed if external circumstances do not allow for the original start of the journey. Please inform the Bauhaus Research School accordingly in advance.
- Travel in connection with a commercial activity will not be funded.
How can I apply?
Applications (in German or English) can be submitted by using the online form with document upload.
Please upload the following documents:
- Synopsis of your envisaged research project or practical training (max. 5 pages incl. work plan and time schedule, please see the information sheet for further details)
- Cost and financing plan (calculation of costs as well as corresponding financing, e.g. personal contributions, funding by third parties, please see the information sheet for further details; employees of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar please use the form according to business trip request (Dienstreiseantrag))
- Letter of recommendation of your supervising professor at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (please see the form pdf/word)
- Updated CV of the applicant
- Proof of approval of the research stay of the host institution abroad. If the approval has not been issued by the time the application is submitted, doctoral candidates must provide it at the latest by the start of the trip!
- Where applicable, proof of the type and amount of cost assumption by or of the funding applied for from third parties.
How will the funding be awarded?
Upon receipt of the applications, the Bauhaus Research School prepares proposals for the award of grants, the approval of which is decided by the Projects and Research Committee. The awarding of funding is based on the application submitted and the report from your supervising professor. You will be sent a written notification of the committee’s decision. The budgetary principles of economic efficiency and cost effectiveness shall apply.
Award criteria:
- Quality of the project synopsis
- Necessity of the research stay for the successful completion of the doctorate
- Feasibility of the project and consistency of the work plan and time schedule
- Suitability of the host institution (justification for selection of the host institution)
- Necessity for financial support
- Availablility of the university's budget
- The allocation of funding is based on the principle of diversity (funding of various doctoral candidates instead of funding of two and more publications of one doctoral candidate).
What do funded doctoral candidates have to submit for the funding disbursement?
The grant awarded will be reimbursed after duly submission of the original receipts for the costs incurred for travel, accommodation and an informal report (max. 5 pages) as well as your bank details. The factual report should contain the objective, the procedure and the result of the funding. The application for the sustainability grant for sustainable travel (by bus, train or carpooling) can also be submitted informally as part of the factual report.
Please submit the documents either in the original to the Bauhaus Research School or as a consolidated PDF per email to ipid[at]uni-weimar.de. Employees of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar should note the separate regulations for funding for business trip accounting.
Important information for employees of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
As an employee of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar you can carry out your stay abroad as a business trip (Dienstreiseantrag). More information (currently only in German) about application and disbursement.
Data protection
- Pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Bauhaus Research School will process the data that grant applicants provide in the grant application form exclusively for the purpose of awarding grants. It will be processed internally and will not be passed on to any third parties. Specifically, processing is necessary to implement pre-contractual measures, fulfil a legal obligation, and perform a task that is in the public interest. In the event that a grant is approved, the project title and name of the grant applicant will be published on the Bauhaus Research School website and, where applicable, in other media of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (e.g. newsletter, online journal, etc.).
- The responsible party in the sense of GDPR and other national data protection laws of the member states as well as other statutory data protection provisions is: Dr. Franziska Matthes, Bauhaus Research School, Marienstr. 14, 99423 Weimar Tel.: +49 (0) 36 43/58 41 05, Email: ipid[at]uni-weimar.de.
- Data protection officer is: Büro des Kanzlers, Belvederer Allee 6, 99423 Weimar, Deutschland, Tel.: +49 (0) 36 43/58 12 22; Email: datenschutz[at]uni-weimar.de
- The data collected in the grant application form will be deleted after twenty (20) years if funding is approved and after ten (10) years if funding is denied.
- Grant applicants and recipients have the right to information, right to rectification, right to restrict processing, right to erasure, right to notification, and right to object in accordance with the legal provisions. Irrespective of any other administrative or legal remedies, they moreover have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.