Here you find a selection of funding programmes for international Postdocs & Junior Researchers by various funding organisations. For more funding opportunities please search our funding databases.
Selection of funding programmes (alphabetical order):
Postdocs
Academies of Sciences and Humanities: prizes for junior researchers
Several academies honour young, usually postdoctoral researchers with prizes and medals.
Academies of Sciences and Humanities: prizes for junior researchersBilateral Exchange of Academics
The programme supports research and study visits up to three months within the framework of the bilateral exchange of scientists and scholars.
Bilateral Exchange of AcademicsDLR-DAAD Research Fellowships in Space, Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation Research
Outstanding doctoral students, scientists and researchers can complete a doctorate or conduct special research at an institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
DLR-DAAD Research Fellowships in Space, Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation ResearchEmmy Noether Programme
Outstanding junior researchers can rapidly qualify for leading positions in science and research or for a university teaching career by heading an independent junior research group and assuming relevant teaching duties.
Emmy Noether ProgrammeERC Starting Grants
International postdoctoral researchers with 2 to 7 years of research experience can strengthen their research independence by establishing their own research team.
ERC Starting GrantsFraunhofer Attract
International specialists in application-oriented research can set up a new research group at a Fraunhofer Institute to develop their ideas into actual innovations.
Fraunhofer AttractGeorg Forster Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
Junior researchers in all disciplines from developing countries, emerging economies and transition states can carry out a research project in cooperation with an academic host of their choice in Germany.
Georg Forster Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral ResearchersGrants to Support the Initiation of International Collaboration
These grants support international collaboration by enabling eligible German and international researchers and academics to plan partner visits, trips abroad and/or joint workshops with their partners.
Grants to Support the Initiation of International CollaborationHead of a Max Planck Research Group at a Max Planck Institute
Junior researchers can conduct independent research work at a Max Planck Institute by establishing their own Max Planck Research Group.
Head of a Max Planck Research Group at a Max Planck InstituteHelmholtz Young Investigators Groups
The best junior researchers receive excellent working conditions in a research-oriented environment. Researchers are granted independence early on and can set up and lead their own research group at a Helmholtz Centre.
Helmholtz Young Investigators Groups