Funding

Do you think about obtaining a doctorate and starting a scientific career as a postdoc after finishing your dissertation? But you have difficulties in finding appropriate financing options or possible funding programs? The team members of the Graduate Academy would be pleased to advise you.

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Financing options and funding programs for junior researchers

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Financing your doctorate

Get informed about the most common financing models for a doctorate; learn more about the external funding opportunities offered by the "Begabtenförderungswerke"; get to know the external fundings for printing and travel costs or click through our overview of databases and search engines to find the right funding for your needs.

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Financing your postdoc phase

The successful completion of a doctorate is the basis for an academic career. What are the options for continuing and advancing your academic career as a postdoc? We have compiled an overview of the various career paths for early career researchers after their doctorate. Get informed about the funding possibilities for your own project or about the external supports for printing and travel expenses or click through our overview of databases and search engines, to find your matching funding for your needs.

Funding programs of the Graduate Academy and the TU Dresden

The Graduate Academy and TU Dresden offers diverse funding programs for doctoral candidates, postdocs as well as for mobility and networks. Get an overview right now!

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 TU Dresden

In addition, the TU Dresden and the Graduate Academy offers its members own funding programs in terms of

Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Freestate of Saxony under the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and the Länder.

Funding programs of the Graduate Academy & TU Dresden

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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 TU Dresden SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PhD.

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Postdoc Funding Programs

We are pleased to introduce the funding programs of the Graduate Academy and TU Dresden 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 stays abroad or for your next attending at a conference, a symposia or a winter/summer school. Furthermore we support the exchange and lively collaboration of early career researchers based on the cooperation of international working groups (AGs) - with our funding programm Lab2Lab!