Funding

The Graduate Academy offers funding opportunities for doctoral candidates and postdocs, such as short-term and long-term scholarships, mobility funds, and equal opportunity funding.

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Financing options and funding programs for junior researchers

Our Funding Programs Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs

The Graduate Academy and TUD offers a wide range of funding programs for doctoral candidates and Postdocs as well as for mobility and networks. Get an overview right now!

Financing your Doctorate Links & Tips

Familiarize yourself with prevalent financing models for doctoral studies. Explore external funding options. Access support for printing and travel expenses, or search at our comprehensive database and search engines to identify suitable financial resources tailored to your requirements.

Financing your Postdoc Links & Tips

Find out about external funding options for your project, including external offers for printing and travel costs, or browse through our overview of databases and search engines to secure funding for your project.

Funding and Scholarships Advise of the Graduate Academy

The team of the Graduate Academy offers expert advice on

financing options of the doctoral and post-doctoral phase within and outside the university
German and international funding authorities
(organizations for the promotion of young talents so-called "Begabtenförderwerke", foundations, German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD, DFG, EU etc.)
further contact points for financing issues within and outside the TUD

In addition, the TUD and the Graduate Academy offer their own funding programs:

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Freestate of Saxony as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Government.

Funding programs of the Graduate Academy & TUD

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PhD Funding Programs

You are looking for long-term scholarships for your doctorate? Or for grants for the completion and wrap-up phase of your doctorate? Or are you looking for subsidies for a proofreading service? Then you have come to the right place! Get to know the various funding programs of the Graduate Academy and TUD SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PhD.

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Postdoc Funding Programs

We are pleased to introduce the funding programs of the Graduate Academy and TUD specifically for the posdoc phase and habilitation. The general aim of the funding programs is to support outstanding early career researchers (postdocs) during the postdoc phase and in their research career.

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Mobility and Networks

The Graduate Academy offers a variety of funding programs for your next research stay abroad or for your next participation in a conference, a symposium or a winter/summer school. Furthermore, we support the exchange and collaboration among early career researchers based on the cooperation of international working groups (AGs) - with our funding programm Lab2Lab!