Current Calls
Calls for Proposals and DAAD Project Funding
As part of the DAAD’s calls for proposals, funding is available for international projects in a variety of programs. For your convenience, we have listed the most important programs below.
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Encounters with German students and academics contribute to establishing contacts between German and foreign universities. Participants gain insights into the economic, political, and cultural life in Germany.
Subject-specific knowledge is imparted during study trips (university visits).
Funding is available for study trips to at least two German universities for up to 15 foreign students accompanied by a university lecturer for a maximum of 12 days.
Groups of foreign students from the second semester onwards, enrolled graduates, (in exceptional cases) doctoral candidates, and one accompanying university lecturer.
Application deadlines:
1 May 2025, for trips from 1 September to 31 December 2025
and from 1 January to 28 February 2026
More information: Call for applications on the DAAD program page
Information from the International Office: Desirée Kampmeier
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The aim is to initiate, intensify, expand, and/or consolidate cooperation and knowledge exchange with non-university stakeholdesr primarily from Tunisia, Sudan, Lebanon, and Iraq, but also from Algeria, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, and Germany in the areas of teaching, research, university management, and/or transfer. Further objectives are the acquisition of (interdisciplinary) and/or administrative skills by students, teachers, (junior) scientists and/or university management staff and the implementation of concepts and/or (knowledge) products for teaching, research and/or reform processes in the field of university management that are in line with the local context and the state of the art.
Funding is available for introductory visits or fact-finding missions, exchanges of students, teachers, (junior) researchers and/or university management staff as part of a short-term measure, (digital) events such as further training, workshops, summer/winter schools, conferences, and the development of concepts and/or (knowledge) products for teaching, research, and/or higher education management.
Application deadline: May 30, 2025, for measures between September 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025.
More information: Call for applications on the DAAD website (German only)
Information from the International Office: Desirée Kampmeier
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Funding is being provided to establish partnerships between German universities and universities in the countries of the Global South. The focus is on planning, development, and implementation of university partnerships and, as a result, the sustainable strengthening of structures at partner universities in countries of the Global South in teaching, research, and university and science management.
Cooperation projects that are still in the development phase are not eligible for funding.
Funding is available for measures in the areas of study and teaching, research, and university management.Application deadline: 30.06.2025
More information available from the international Office: Desirée KampmeierMore informationen (from DAAD) (page in German only)
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is able to draw on funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to sponsor international guest lecturers for teaching positions at German universities.
Model A: Preparation, implementation, and follow-up of courses by a guest lecturer (stay of three to twelve months)
Model B: Establishment of a visiting professorship through the preparation, implementation, and follow-up of courses taught by alternating international visiting lecturers (usually lasting 24 months; individual visiting lecturers stay for at least three months; usually changing after one semester).
The content profile of the visiting professorship should correspond to that of a regular professorship in terms of teaching and research. The visiting professor must teach independently for at least six hours per week during the semester.
Application deadline: 15.07.2025
For more information contact the International Office: Desirée KampmeierMore information (from DAAD) (page in German only)
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) – Research scholarship
With the JSPS research fellowship, you can carry out your personal research project in Japan. You will cooperate with a qualified academic host selected by yourself.
Applications are open three times a year to postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines whose doctorate must not have been awarded more than 6 years ago on April 1 of the fiscal year in which the scholarship is taken up.Duration of funding: 12 to 24 months
Application deadlines: June, October, February of each year
Link to the call for applications: Further information on the Humboldt Foundation's program pageContact the International Office for more information: Desirée Kampmeier
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The aim of the program is to initiate or intensify binational partnership-based research activities between German and foreign universities or research institutions by promoting mobility and short-term stays for exchange at participating partner institutions for research purposes. Particular emphasis is placed on the qualification of young academics.
(For the purposes of these programs, young academics are defined as junior researchers currently completing their doctorate degree as well as academics at the outset of their academic careers who completed their doctorate no more than five years ago.)
The program promotes mobility and short-term stays for project participants from the participating partner institutions to exchange research activities in various disciplines. Funding is available for graduates (master's students and master's degree holders), doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and university lecturers, unless otherwise agreed with the foreign partner.
Application deadline: country-specific requirements
Call for proposal: DAAD website (German only)
