The Dresden Fellowship Program focuses on inviting international scientists for joint research and teaching to TU Dresden. 

The programs Dresden Junior Fellows and Dresden Senior Fellows offer fundings to young as well as established scientists within a period of three to six months. With these programs TU Dresden wants to attract gifted scientists on senior- and early-career-level. The program's goal is to strengthen cooperations and to initiate long-term, strategic project proposals with bodies and working groups of TU Dresden and their DRESDEN-concept-partners.

Eligible to apply: Institute directors or incorporating chairs 
Application deadlines: Nominations for DRESDEN Fellows can be submitted on an ongoing basis.

The Eleonore-Trefftz-Program enables alternating guest stays for scientists at TU Dresden who represent their subject independently in teaching and research at the respective faculty. Visiting professors can research and teach at TU Dresden for three to 12 months. Both scientists who hold a professorship and junior professors who are at least at an advanced stage in the postdoc phase can receive a guest professorship.

The program serves to promote female careers on the way to professorship. Visiting professors are also role models for a scientific career for female students and researchers in the qualification phase from those subjects in which few or no female professors have been represented.

Eligible to appy: all faculties and scientific bodies with right of appointment
Application deadlines: April 15, 2021 

As part of the excellence strategy of the federal and state governments, TU Dresden promotes the acquisition of excellent scientists as an active recruiting instrument with GET TU KNOW in the sense of a positive welcoming strategy for all faculties. The measure is intended to help TU Dresden to find and win passionate scientists who shape their scientific field with excellent research.

One component of this measure is the invitation of potential (international) applicants in the context of symposia, conferences and colloquia in the run-up to professorial vacancies, a second the support of applicants during the personal introductions in the process. GET TU KNOW is to be used in selected tenders by the faculties and central scientific bodies with the right of appointment as a strategic tool in order to expand the pool of highly qualified talents who, due to their profile, have a real chance in the appointment process.

Eligible to apply: all faculties and scientific bodies with right of appointment at TU Dresden 
Application deadlines: March 31/June 30/September 30/December 31 of each year

The DAAD program "Eastern Partnerships" supports German universities
in strengthening their partnerships with institutes of higher education in Cent-
ral Eastern, Southeastern and Eastern Europe as well as the Caucasus and Cen-
tral Asia. Academic exchange and scientific cooperation play equal roles and
contribute to sustainably improving the conditions for teaching and research.
"Eastern Partnerships" contributes to the development of international relations through education and research, the spread and promotion of the German language abroad, and conflict management. Eastern Partnership funding is suspended for 2023.

Funding is available for shorter study. The purpose of the stay is to strengthen or initiate cooperation between (young) scholars of the TU Dresden and the partner universities in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, during the stay, research-related work can be conducted in archives, university libraries, and at university-affiliated institutes.

Eligible to apply: Students, graduates, doctoral candidates, scholars, and university members of TU Dresden for stays at partner universities in Central and Eastern Europe.

For further information: Tender "Eastern Partnerships"

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards up to 100 Humboldt Research Awards annually to internationally recognized scholars from abroad, thereby honoring the overall work of these leading researchers.
Scientists whose fundamental discoveries, new theories or findings have sustainably shaped the own subject beyond the narrower work area and who are expected of further scientific excellence can be nominated for the award.
Researchers from abroad from all disciplines and all countries can be nominated for the Humboldt Research Award. The award winners are also invited to carry out research projects of their own choosing in Germany in cooperation with specialist colleagues. The period range from about half a year to a full year can be divided in time. The prize money amounts to EUR 60,000.

Eligible to apply: Proven scientists at a research institution in Germany can initiate a nomination. Award winners of the Humboldt Foundation who work abroad are also entitled to do so together with a researcher working in Germany.
Application deadlines: Applications can be submitted online at any time. An independent selection committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation decides twice a year in spring and autumn on the nominations submitted. The review takes about six months.

With the Humboldt Research Fellowships for postdocs and experienced scientists, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables academics from abroad with above-average qualifications who completed their doctorates no more than 4 or 12 years ago to undertake long-term research stays (6–24 months) in Germany. Scientists from all disciplines and from all countries can apply for the Humboldt Research Fellowship. 
The research project is carried out in cooperation with academic hosts at research institutions in Germany. Applicants choose their independent research project and their hosts in Germany themselves. Details of the research project, including information on the planned duration of the fellowship, must be discussed with the intended host before submitting the application.

Application Deadlines: The application should be submitted at least 4-7 months before the planned selection date. The selection committee meets in March, July and November of each year.

Together with the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, TU Dresden supports scientists at risk with a full scholarship for 24 months and was thus successful in the 2nd and 4th round of applications. The Philipp Schwartz Initiative was launched by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation together with the Federal Foreign Office and enables universities, universities of applied sciences and non-university research institutions in Germany to award scholarships for research stays to researchers at risk.

The DRESDEN-concept Welcome Center at TU Dresden is responsible for submitting the application for TUD as well as for handling the project and is available to support hosts and researchers.

Contact:
Katharina Schmitt

The Association of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden e.V. supports young scientists of TU Dresden with grants up to six months as well as travel allowances to attend congresses/conferences or short-term research stays abroad. Additionally, funding for incoming guest scientists from abroad can be applied for.

Eligibility: Young scientists
Application deadline: Anytime

The team of the DRESDEN-concept Welcome Center at TU Dresden supports international researchers and their families in planning and carrying out their research stay of three months and longer. As a service point, the team advises on all non-university and practical questions in order to make your stay in Dresden as pleasant and easy as possible – be it for a semester or for a permanent position. A broad network of internal and external partners offers a wide range of administrative and social services.

For further information: DRESDEN-concept Welcome Center at TU Dresden

Travel Awards for Conferences, Congresses, Symposia und Workshops 

Travel Awards support doctoral candidates and postdocs with travel allowances up to EUR 1,000 to attend conferences, congresses, symposia and workshops within Germany and abroad.

Eligibility: Doctoral candidates and postdocs
Application deadlines: March 31^st and September 30^th

Travel Grants for Short-Term Research Stays and Summer/Winter Schools abroad

Travel Grants support doctoral candidates and postdocs with travel allowances up to EUR 3,000 for short-term research stays abroad up to three months as well as the participation in international summer and winter schools outside of Germany with up to EUR 1,000 per event.

Eligibility: Doctoral candidates and postdocs
Application deadlines: March 31^st and September 30^th

Erasmus Grants for Teaching Secondment

The International Office supports with the ERAMSUS+ program the possibility of being a guest lecturer at European partner universities. This program aims at strengthening the internatinal collaboration and supporting the organisation of common study programs. 
Eligibility: Doctoral candidates and postdocs
Application deadline: 30 days before the envisaged teaching secondment starts

Detailed information and all application documents can be found here: Erasmus Grants for Teaching Secondment

The ERASMUS + program offers university employees further education and training measures at European universities (STT - Staff Mobility for Training). This form of mobility enables professional exchange, insights into your own work areas from a different perspective as well as the expansion and deepening of your own networks. Staff mobility for further education and training purposes can include the following content:

• Hospitations
• Job shadowing (individual)
• Study visits
• Participation in curriculum development (lecturers)
• Participation in workshops and seminars (Staff Weeks)
• Participation in language courses 
• Participation in conferences or research projects CANNOT BE FUNDED

Eligibility: The ERASMUS mobility grant is available to all employees of TU Dresden. Prerequisite is an employment contract (contracts also based on: WHK, "Honorar- and Werkvertrag) with the TU Dresden. 

Application Deadliines: at least 30 days before the stay

The DAAD program "Eastern Partnerships" supports German universities
in strengthening their partnerships with institutes of higher education in Cent-
ral Eastern, Southeastern and Eastern Europe as well as the Caucasus and Cen-
tral Asia. Academic exchange and scientific cooperation play equal roles and
contribute to sustainably improving the conditions for teaching and research.
"Eastern Partnerships" contributes to the development of international relations through education and research, the spread and promotion of the German language abroad, and conflict management.

Funding is available for shorter study and research stays that take place in 2021. The purpose of the stay is to strengthen or initiate cooperation between (young) scholars of the TU Dresden and the partner universities in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, during the stay, research-related work can be conducted in archives, university libraries, and at university-affiliated institutes.

Eligible to apply: Students, graduates, doctoral candidates, scholars, and university members of TU Dresden for stays at partner universities in Central and Eastern Europe.

For further information: Tender "Eastern Partnerships"

The Association of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden e.V. supports young scientists of TU Dresden with grants up to six months as well as travel allowances to attend congresses/conferences or short-term research stays abroad. Additionally, funding for incoming guest scientists from abroad can be applied for.

Eligibility: Young scientists
Application deadline: Anytime

With the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowships for Postdocs and Experienced Scientists, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation enables academics from Germany with above-average qualifications who completed their doctorate no more than 4 or 12 years ago to undertake long-term research stays abroad ( 6–24 months). Applications from all subject areas and for all countries are possible.
All members of the Humboldt Network abroad can act as academic hosts in the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Program. Applicants choose their hosts themselves and develop their research projects independently.

Application Deadlines: The application should be submitted online at least 4-7 months before the targeted selection date. The selection committee meets in February, June and October each year.

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research grant supports you as a highly qualified postdoc from Germany in your research project in Japan – regardless of the subject. With the JSPS research grant you can carry out your personal research project in Japan. You will cooperate with a qualified academic host that you have chosen yourself. There are two different funding lines: 

• Short-term postdoctoral fellowships, in which research stays of 1-12 months are funded, and

• Standard postdoctoral fellowships for research stays of 12-24 months.

The Humboldt Foundation selects applicants for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from a funding period of six months. The DAAD selects the scholarship holders with a shorter funding period in the short-term program. Up to 17 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships (short-term) and up to 12 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships (standard) are awarded annually.

Eligible to apply: PostDocs from Germany who received their doctorate no more than six years ago and who have already published scientifically in journals and publishers according to international standards.
Application Deadline: The selection committee meets every February, June and October. The processing of the application usually takes four to seven months.

Funding can be requested from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation to cover travel expenses that are directly related to a humanities, social science or biomedical research project. Thematically, an application is possible in the following funding areas, among others:

• History, language & culture

• Interdisciplinary field »Image–Sound–Language«

• State, economy & society

General educational trips, excursions as well as lecture and congress trips are not funded.

Eligibility: Applicants must have a doctorate.
Application deadline: Applications for travel grants can be submitted to the foundation at any time. The processing time is usually eight weeks.