Lab2Lab

Eligible are professors / Young Investigators of the TU Dresden together with a professor  from the working group abroad and an early career researcher as the main contact person within the working group at TU Dresden. The full membership at the Graduate Academy is mandatory for all project participants (involved early career researchers as wells as the applying professor / Young Investigator) from the TU Dresden.

Should you not already be a member of the GA, you must hand in your complete membership application including all necessary documents two weeks prior to the submission of the application to the Graduate Academy.

Please note:
Your GA-membership will be administered by Promovendus from September 2020 onwards. You can log in to Promovendus via your ZIH login. If you are already a member of the Graduate Academy, you can find the information related to your GA-membership directly on the start page of your Promovendus file. The reference number of your Graduate Academy membership is also listed here.

If you are not yet a member of the Graduate Academy, please follow the instructions of Promovendus for membership. Further information can be found on the website of the Graduate Academy. If you have any questions, we will be happy to support you!

Please note that associate members of the Graduate Academy are, contrary to full/regular members, not eligible to file applications for the Graduate Academy's funding programs. All other services are open to associated members.

• The project application has to be a joint request.
• A cooperation between the working groups already exists (demonstrated by, e.g., joint publications, cooperation agreements)
• At least one young researcher from each working group must be involved in the project. Level and type of participation may vary depending on the individual needs.
• At least one early career researcher of TU Dresden has to be involved in the project as a main applying contact and has to travel.

The project applications can be composed of a single mandatory module only but also be completed by further flexible modules.
The mandatory module for all project applications is:

• a research stay of an early career researcher of the TU Dresden in the partner group (outgoing; min. two weeks up to three months)

Further flexible modules can be added to the project application:

• research stays of other doctoral candidates and/or postdocs of the participating working groups (incoming and outgoing; up to three months)
• NEW: research stays of professors and TUD Young Investigators of the working groups (incoming and outgoing; up to maximum three months)
• short meetings of individual participants (early career researchers, professors, TUD Young Investigators) of the working groups at TU Dresden or abroad (max. five days). Meetings can be for example workshops of the AG partners, strategy meetings for detailed planning of single modules, coordination meetings for planning joint publications/applications for third-party funding.

The maximum extent of fuding per project application is EUR 10,000.00.

The reimbursement of costs for all travelers/members of the TU Dresden takes place in accordance with the Regalations to the Saxon Travel Expenses (Sächsisches Reisekostengesetz = SächsRKG) by means of a (service) travel application and a corresponding statement of account following the completed trip. The SächsRKG is a reimbursement right, i.e. the traveler makes advance payments for all costs.

The reimbursement of all travelers of the partner working group to TU Dresden is done via the accounting method of the guest agreement (Gastvereinbarung). In case of a grant, you will receive further information from the Graduate Academy.

All necessary application documents are listed in the respective call for applications. Thus, we kindly ask you to carefully read the terms and conditions of the  Lab2Lab funding program.

The selection process takes place by the Executive Committee of the Graduate Academy of TU Dresden on the basis of the application handed in.

 The content-related selection criteria are:

• Quality of the previous cooperation(s) of the applicants
• Quality of the early career researchers (academic performance, publications, prizes, awards, social criteria)
• Convincing concept of
  • how the early career researchers are involved and supervised in the project to benefit the best from the expertise of both/all involved sides,
  • the planned concrete results (e.g., joint applications/publications) and
  • perspectives (development of a long-lasting exchange, involvement of other groups).

 The formal selection criteria are:

• Application documents completed in full
• Application electronically submitted as one PDF-file

 A fundamental legal right to claim funding within this program does not exist.

Applications can be handed in at any time.

The funding decision will take place about six weeks after the submission of the application to the Graduate Academy.