Our Funding Portfolio
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The Volkswagen Foundation is dedicated to the support of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology in higher education and research. It funds research projects in path-breaking areas and provides assistance to academic institutions for the improvement of the structural conditions for their work.
Funding portfolio
We support future-oriented topics with our funding offers.
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Earth System Sciences
The offer is aimed at universities in Germany with a focus on geosciences that wish to establish one or two junior professorships with tenure track.
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area of research: Geosciences
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funding for: 1-2 junior professorships with tenure track per University location
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Change! Fellowships and research groups
Our target group: Personalities from science who are researching transformation processes jointly with non-academic partners.
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area of research: all disciplines
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funding for: own position, research project
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Open Up – New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies
The funding initiative addresses teams of two or three researchers who aim to explore new and original research spaces.
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area of research: humanities and cultural studies, theoretical social sciences
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type of funding: research projects; funding of a teaching substitute
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Themed Week 'Digital Competences in Science'
Stakeholders from research, infrastructure areas, science management, libraries, technical services and administration can apply with their symposium.
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subject area: all
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funding for scientific events
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Perspectives on Wealth: Repercussions of Wealth
The call is aimed at (inter-)national research consortia, collaborations with partners from LMICs are preferable, transdisciplinary consortia possible.
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area of research: Humanities, cultural and social sciences, economics (lead); cooperations with natural, life, data and technical science possible
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type of funding: (inter-)national cooperation projects with up to five partners
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