Our Funding Portfolio at a Glance

Looking for a grant? Then use our search device to find the matching funding opportunity for your research proposal. Please note: As the foundation is realigning its funding strategy as of 2021, some funding offers will end, others will be readjusted - and there will be new funding measures.

Data Reuse – Additional Funding for the Preparation and Storage of Research Data (Open Science)

apply anytime

all subject areas

preparation and storing of research data

Lichtenberg Endowed Professorships

Apply Anytime

Lichtenberg-Professor Dr. Matthias Schott at the Institute for physics

all subject areas

professorship

outstanding academics conducting research in innovative and interdisciplinary fields

Momentum – Funding for Recently Tenured Professors

Deadline: April 27, 2023

(short proposals)

all disciplines

concepts for the broadening of perspectives

up to 800,000 Euro (first phase); up to 200,000 Euro (second phase)

university professors three to five years after taking up their first tenured professorship

New funding strategy

For more information on our funding strategy, please visit the Volkswagen Foundation’s new funding strategy.

What we do NOT fund

Please note our exclusion criteria. Amongst others, the Foundation does not allocate funds for individual scholarships (i.e. PhD fellowships or student scholarships).