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.
We provide support in four profile areas
Funding portfolio
We support future-oriented topics with our funding offers.
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Transatlantic Bridge Professorships
Learn moreFunding programme for professors in the humanities and social sciences currently working in the USA who wish to work both in the USA and in Germany.
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area of research: Humanities and Social Sciences
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type of funding: Proportional financing of a professorship in Germany
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Navigating a Transforming World Order: Fellowships on Security and Technology
Learn moreWe are looking for the security experts of the future: The call is aimed at young postdoctoral researchers who do research on the nexus of security and technology with a distinct European perspective.
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area of research: all
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type of funding: postdoctoral fellowships
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zukunft.niedersachsen: Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship
Website zukunft.niedersachsen.deThe "Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship" addresses academics approaching the end of their early career phase up to a maximum of ten years after completing their doctorate.
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zukunft.niedersachsen: Boost Research! Seed Grants for Lower Saxony
Website zukunft.niedersachsen.deThis funding programme offers researchers the opportunity to receive seed funding for novel collaborative projects. The aim is to use the funding to enable the acquisition of additional third-party funding.
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Researching Research: Strengthening University Centres
Learn moreThe funding offer is aimed at established centres, institutes or research priority areas for Science Studies at universities in Germany that have been institutionalised in recent years and are striving for further structural development.
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area of research: science studies
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type of funding: funds for structural measures
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Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown
Learn moreThe funding offer addresses outstanding post-doctoral researchers and professors universities and research institutes in Germany, international cooperation partners are possible.
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area of research: all disciplines
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type of funding: visionary projects from the field of basic research
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Impetus for the German Science System: Strategic Experimental Spaces – University Development Requires Flexibility
Learn moreThe Foundation invites universities, in conjunction with the relevant ministries, to open and design experimental spaces to test new forms of cross-border or cross-institutional cooperation.
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type of funding: strategic projects
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aimed at: universities, ministries
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Transformational Knowledge on Democracies under Change – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Learn moreThe programme addresses persons from science together with actors outside of academia who are interested in transdisciplinary research and aim at jointly developing new perspectives on democratic forms of government under change.
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areas 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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