The World as a Guest at TU Dresden – the Dresden Fellowship Program for visiting scholars enables both junior scientists (Dresden Junior Fellows) and established researchers (Dresden Senior Fellows) to spend up to six months at TU Dresden.

The Eleonore Trefftz Program enables rotating guest stays at TU Dresden by international female scientists who represent their subject independently in teaching and research at the faculty in question. Guest professors can research and lecture at TU Dresden for three to 12 months. ​

Both female scientists who hold a professorship and junior professors and scientists who are at least in an advanced stage of the postdoc phase can fill a guest professorship.

The Funding Program for Eastern Partnerships supports research and cooperation projects with eight selected universities in Central and Eastern Europe. The International Office has limited DAAD funding available to initiate and support research and cooperation projects with the following universities:

Czech Technical University of Prague  
Charles University of Prague  
Wroclaw University of Technology  
University of Wroclaw  
St. Petersburg State University (suspended since March 2020)
National Technical University of Ukraine – KPI  
North-Caucasus Federal University (suspended since March 2022)
Ufa State Aviation Technical University – USATU (suspended since March 2020)
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (new)


The funds are to serve in particular as start-up financing for larger projects by the EU, German Research Foundation (DFG), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), or similar in the future. Funding can be provided for travel expenses of TU Dresden university members to the named universities and for accommodation expenses of members of these universities at TU Dresden.

The Graduate Academy – Travel Awards aim to support doctoral and postdoctoral candidates with travel grants for meetings, conferences, symposia, and workshops in Germany and abroad. Eligible for funding are TU Dresden doctoral and postdoctoral candidates in all departments.

The Travel Grants for Short Research Stays and Summer/Winter Schools Abroad of the Graduate Academy aim to support doctoral and postdoctoral candidates with travel grants for short research stays abroad of up to three months and participation in summer and winter schools outside Germany. Short research stays should generally not be less than two weeks. For shorter research stays, please contact the Graduate Academy. Eligible for funding are TU Dresden doctoral and postdoctoral candidates in all departments.

The Graduate Academy / TU Dresden offers doctoral candidates a wide range of funding and support options for the various phases of the doctorate. Doctoral Funding of the Graduate Academy / TU Dresden

The Graduate Academy / TU Dresden offers various funding options and support possibilities for the postdoc phase and habilitation.                           

Postdoc Funding by the GA / TU Dresden

ERASMUS teaching stays and further education measures abroad support the internationalization of universities at all levels and contribute to the professional development of university staff. Mobile scientists use a teaching stay to strengthen the international exchange and cooperation in the departments, impart special expertise to students, and also become more familiar with partner universities in Europe and around the globe. They also gain new perspectives with a further education stay on the basis of a coordinated program. The focus is on professional exchange and the strengthening of one’s own expertise as well as the expansion and deepening of networks. Erasmus+ Faculty and Staff Mobility