Research in Germany: R & D Landscape

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Funding Organization

Every year, the AvH enables more than 1,800 academics and scientists from all around the world to come to Germany to complete research stays. Together with some 100 Humboldt Associations in 60 countries, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation maintains a network of 23,000 Humboldtians, including 40 Nobel Laureates.

Who provides funding and how? Where do I send my application to? These important research funding questions are answered on the website of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). (Partly in German)

Trying to find out more about the various types of funding offered by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) or other funding organisations? Look here for some useful information.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is the central, self-governing research funding organisation of German science. To promote research at universities and other publicly-financed research institutions, the DFG funds research projects and helps researchers cooperate with each other.

Planning a research trip to Germany? Or would you like some information on scholarship programmes? The website contains an alphabetical list of organisations and agencies that provide grants and scholarships in Germany.

Forschen-Foerdern is a global portal that provides information onprojects and awardy in the fields of natural, technological anfd medical science in Germany and promotes the communication between institutions and recipients of research funding (available in German only).


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