The University of Tübingen is offering a maximum of 40 months’ worth of final-stage doctoral grants in 2026, to be awarded between 1 August 2026 and 31 December 2026 at the latest. This is a one-off grant; therefore, it cannot be extended.
Doctoral candidates in the final phase of their studies are eligible for a maximum of 5 months’ funding, provided they have not previously received personalised funding or a scholarship for their doctoral project.
Informal funding applications (electronic only) should be no longer than two pages and must be submitted electronically, together with a statement (max. 1 page) from the supervisor of the PhD thesis, by 30 June 2026 at the latest, to the Central Administration, State Graduate Funding, for the attention of Ms Mona Schmidhuber, Rümelinstr. 32, email: lgfspam prevention@zv.uni-tuebingen.de
The application and the statement should specify the work to be carried out during the funding period, the date of the oral examination, if already set, an assessment of the work’s academic relevance to the subject area, and any publications that have already been produced or are in preparation.
Applications should be submitted informally. Administrative details will be collected once the funding decision has been made and are a prerequisite for the funding to commence.
The scholarship is expected to amount to €1,365 per month. Conversion to funding for a post is possible within the framework of the statutes. It should also be noted that funding can only be provided up to the end of the month in which the oral defence of the doctoral thesis takes place.
The State Graduate Funding Act of 23 July 2008, the Statutes for the Implementation of the State Graduate Funding Act at the University of Tübingen (as amended on 9 February 2017), and the forms and information sheets relating to the scholarship can be found on the University website, Dez II, Dept. II, Section 3, State Graduate Funding.
Short link: www.uni-tuebingen.de/de/9101
