FAQs

You may apply for all three funding formats of Bauhaus Research School.

You can apply more than once per year, but applications of doctoral candidates who were not funded during the current calendar year are preferred.

As far as your scholarship agreement does not provide for the funding of translation or proofreading services, you may be funded by the BRS.

Yes, you may, as long as your scholarship agreement does not provide for the funding of translation or proofreading services.

The graduate admissions committee must have admitted the candidate before the application for funding.

Yes, you may, as far as you are a doctoral candidate at Bauhaus University Weimar (on this see Issue No. 5).

WE can only fund those expenses which are not completely or partly funded by third parties. This is why we need evidence of which expenses are funded by third parties. A letter (or an e-mail) by a funding third party may go as such an evidence.

The funding is meant for supporting you as a candidate. Your publication must produce a clear added value for your doctorate project. This is the case e. g. if part(s) of your doctorate project will be published.

We are sorry, but this is not possible at present.

No, they are not. However, you may apply at the Bauhaus Research School for a printing costs subsidy.

Yes, you may, if your doctoral project at Bauhaus University has been accepted by the graduation commission of your Faculty.

Being the funded person, you are yourself in charge of choosing the services provider. The online database of the Bundesverband der Übersetzer und Dolmetscher e. V. (Federal Association of Translators and Interpreters) (http://suche.bdue.de) may be helpful for your search. It provides the contact data of more than 7,500 qualified interpreters and translators in Germany.

You can apply for different publications during the current year. The allocation depends on the availability of the funding and applications of doctoral candidates who were not funded during the current calendar year are preferred.

until 15 November of the current year.

Payment happens after having presented the original invoice to the Bauhaus Research School as well as the proof of submission of the publication. This may be done via e-mail to ipid[at]uni-weimar.de.

The grant is paid to the funded person and not to the translation or proofreading service. 

No, you will not. You will only be paid the maximum grants as being specified in the funding commitment.

The invoice by the translation or proofreading service must include the VAT. If it is a small enterprise having its seat in Germany, § 19 of the German VAT Act is valid. The invoice has to addressed to you as funded person by using your private address.