Our Funding Portfolio
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 focus our funding activities on selected initiatives. By means of these initiatives, we endeavor to provide effective stimuli for research and to establish forward-looking topics.
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Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mobility and Global Health
The call is directed at researchers from HICs and LMICs, in close collaboration with local communities, non-academic stakeholders and other relevant actors. It is jointly initiated by the three independent private foundations Novo Nordisk Foundation (Denmark), Wellcome (Great Britain) and Volkswagen Foundation.
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areas of research: social sciences, life & health sciences
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funding for: international collaborative projects
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Transformational Knowledge on Democracies under Change – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
The call addresses persons from science and (civil) society who are interested in transdisciplinary research and aim at jointly developing new perspectives on democratic forms of government under change.
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area of research: humanities, cultural and social sciences (lead); cooperation with natural, life, data and technical sciences possible
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type of funding: task forces, cooperation projects
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zukunft.niedersachsen: Innovative diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to combat rare diseases
The new funding offer within the framework of zukunft.niedersachsen is aimed at professors and postdocs at universities and non-university research institutions in Lower Saxony.
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area of research: rare diseases, personalised medicine, biomedicine, biotechnology, bioinformatics, data sciences
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type of funding: collaborative and individual projects
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zukunft.niedersachsen: Research Cooperation Lower Saxony – Israel
Funding is provided for scientifically outstanding projects conducted jointly by researchers from Israel and Lower Saxony.
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area of research: humanities and social sciences (call 2024)
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type of funding: research projects
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