Program for the Promotion of Junior Researchers
The Program for the Promotion of Junior Researchers offers postdocs and junior professors a start-up financing to set up independent research projects. This program is aimed at the development of a larger third-party funding application. It cannot be used as funding for the applicant’s job.
Next Deadline: March 2025 (tbc)
Requirements
Junior researchers (also Junior professors) with a doctorate at the University of Tübingen are invited to apply,
- who have a longterm scholarship or an employment contract with the University of Tübingen, at least until the end of the funding period
- whose PhD was not attained more than five years ago (date of PhD certificate, extension for childcare).
- who are not members of the Faculty of Medicine (Funding opportunities of the Faculty of Medicine)
Funding
You may apply for
- Material resources/consumables
- Investment funding
- Funding for assistants
- NOT: Funding for own position
Total funding per application: max. € 35,000 for up to 18 months
For details on eligible expenses and their calculation see the FAQs https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/78465
Deadline
- Annual call
- Activation of the online-application tool February 2025
- Next Application deadline: mid of March 2025
- Beginning of the funding period: August 01, 2025
Application
Proposal (5 pages max.)
Your project description should include the following aspects:
- Short abstract
- Scientific aims
- Current state of research and your own preliminary work
- Detailed, concrete working plan (including timetable)
- Outline of the project’s future prospects (To which third-party sponsor or funding program do you plan to hand in your project proposal and when? What is yet to be done before third-party funding may be sought)?
- Detailed financial plan: list of elements of funding with explanation (e.g. if applying for personnel costs: timetable, type and extent of work to be done)
- Bibliography (not included in the 5 pages)
- Formal requirements: Single line spacing, font size at least 11, margins at least 2 cm
Applications may be written in English or German. The application must be written in such a way that persons outside your discipline are able to understand the content.
Annexes
The following appendices must accompany your project description:
- Your academic career to date/academic CV
- List of publications
- A brief statement by the relevant institute director or supervising professor
- Form “declaration & fact sheet” (available in the online tool or via the Excellence Initiative’s Internal Documents)
Important: Please note that the signatures of the Dean and the institute’s director are required!
Submission
- Fill in the data sheet online in the electronic application system, available from Febrary 12, 2024 at https://www.antraege-zv.uni-tuebingen.de/ A registration in the system is necessary.
- Upload your project description and annexes as one pdf-document in the electronic application system.
- Send the entire application as a printed version as well as the orginial version of the “declaration & fact sheet” (available via the https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/70536 and in the application tool) to Marion Jäger, Division II, Section 2, Rümelinstr. 32, 72070 Tübingen.
Assessment
After a formal check by the administration, the application is evaluated by reviewers. The Research Commission of the University of Tübingen discusses and selects the proposals. A final funding decision is made by the Rectorate. Applicants will be notified at the beginning of July.
Assessment criteria:
- Quality of the project and relevance of the research topic (innovation and originality)
- Prospects for continued research and further third-party funding
- Research environment and feasibility of the project (concept and content of the work program)
- Qualification and independence of the applicant (e.g. on the basis of lead authorship of publications)
Questions?
For FAQs please see https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/78465
Online-Information: February 1, 2024, 12:00 as part of the Research Funding Snacks
For further information, please contact
Dr. Marion Jäger, Tel. 07071/29-75078
E-Mail: marion.jaeger @uni-tuebingen.de