As part of the ESF Plus Higher Education and Research Regulation of the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism (SMWK), junior research groups will receive funding typically for a period of three years as of January 1^st, 2024.

The objective of the funding is to exploit the educational potential of individuals in higher education – especially of women – in order to improve their chances of entering into the Saxon economic or science and research sector, and to counter the growing skilled labor shortage.

By working together on a research project, the early-career researchers will be able to contribute towards a stable, green, sustainable, and digital economy in the Free State of Saxony, to increase knowledge and technology transfer, to foster networking between Saxon institutes of higher education and industry, and to teach.

Project proposals for measures planned to start on January 1^st, 2024, must first be sub-mitted before TUD’s internal deadline of June 9^th, 2023. These must comprise a formal project idea of no more than five pages written in German together with a budget table for internal pre-evaluation. Project proposals that are submitted after the deadline cannot be considered in the selection process. You will find important information on the funding subject, the procedure, as well as required documents on our program web page.

Following the TUD-internal evaluation, the selected project proposals must be expanded to 15 pages and qualified by July 28^th, 2023, at the latest for submission to the Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB). The European Project Center (EPC) supports the applicants in this process and submits the project proposals via TU Dresden’s SAB funding portal before the deadline.  

After this, SAB and SMWK will select eligible project proposals from a pool of proposals submitted by other universities in Saxony in transitional regions and will invite them to submit a full proposal.

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