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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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
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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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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: Lower Saxony Professorship
Website zukunft.niedersachsen.deThe "Lower Saxony Professorship" addresses exceptional academics who are professionally excellent and have several years of (management) experience in the science system. They are expected to have the capacity to shape the profile and structure of their university location and impact the research region at large.
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area of research: all
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type of funding: professorship, additional resources
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zukunft.niedersachsen: Research Cooperation Lower Saxony – Israel
Website zukunft.niedersachsen.deFunding 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 2027)
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type of funding: research projects
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