© Juergen Loesel

Applying for funding to carry out research projects is part of your everyday life. We provide comprehensive information about strategies and opportunities, offer you in-depth advice and support for each individual project. We can answer questions about which projects can be funded by foundations and ministries, or national third-party funding bodies such as the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Our services range from support with developing proposal ideas by searching for suitable funding formats and cooperation partners from science, economy and society, to guidance during the application process from sketch to submission, all the way to negotiating the cooperation agreement. The Research Pool, the university's own support fund, assists TUD's researchers with the phase of applying for publicly funded research projects. Appropriate measures may be financed, which can, for example, be used to apply for structure-forming collaborative projects or research projects of early-career researchers. In addition, various workshops on successfully writing proposals are offered. These are designed to perfectly match the requirements of different funding bodies.

The Project Scouts provide advice in the early phase from gathering ideas to applying for the research project. They help you with your search for funding opportunities and new cooperation partners from science, business and culture, for example within the framework of the event format IDEENSTUDIO.

The IDEENSTUDIOS help with interdisciplinary networking with potential cooperation partners within the university and within the Dresden science hub. They are, however, also useful when it comes to developing ideas for current and upcoming funding priorities. They provide the basis for innovative project concepts and competitive consortia both in advance or alongside calls for applications for funding.

Research services include:

• Drawing up contracts and negotiating them with the project partners
• Providing advice on organisational and contractual issues, and project calculation
• Obtaining legally binding signatures
• Assigning specific project numbers (WBS elements) for the company's own booking system
• Coordinating internal university processes in the application phase of national large-scale research projects
• Coordinating internal university processes for applying for large-scale equipment for research
• Strategic consulting for project applications regarding texts - Text templates, model contracts