After your PhD, you should gain scientific independence and establish your own research projects. To meet this challenge, a number of programs from different funding institutions are available. For questions to specific funding programs, please ask the contact person at the research support office or the funding institution.

University Funding

• Program for the promotion of junior researchers
• Summer/Winter Schools
• Innovation Grants (Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Innovation Grants (Sciences and Life Sciences)
• DFG-Fund for Open-Access-Publications

DFG

• Walter-Benjamin-Program
• Individual Research Grants
• Emmy-Noether-Program 
• Scientific Networks
• Heisenberg-Program

EU-Programs

• ERC Starting Grant
• Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowships

Foundations

• BW Foundation: Eliteprogramm for Postdocs
• Volkswagen Foundation: Freigeist Fellowships, Original, Lichtenberg Professorships 
• Thyssen-Stiftung: Support of projects
• Gerda Henkel Stiftung: Project funding, Research grants
• Böckler Stiftung: Maria-Weber-Grant
• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung: Habilitations-Stipendium
• Daimler und Benz Stiftung: Fellowhips for Postdocs 

Research Stays abroad

• Walter-Benjamin-Program
• Humboldt-Stiftung: Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship
• DAAD: Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience (PRIME)

Funding for female Postdocs

• Athene-Programm
• Funding Baden-Württemberg

Funding for Postdocs who want to come to Tübingen:

• Walter-Benjamin-Program
• Teach@Tübingen
• Funding for threatened foreign researchers: Scholars at Risk; Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
• Humboldt-Stiftung: Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium; Georg-Forster Forschungstipendium für Postdocs aus Entwicklungsländern; Sofia-Kovalevskaja-Preis
• DAAD