Momentum – Funding for Recently Tenured Professors supports academics in Germany with flexible measures to develop their research and research-based teaching, strengthening creativity and research diversity.
Researching Research: Strengthening University Centres supports German university Science Studies centres with structural development to strengthen interdisciplinary work and international visibility.
Opus Magnum supports established professors with substitute teaching appointments so they can complete major scholarly books in the humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences with reach beyond their fields.
Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown supports researchers across disciplines pursuing high-risk basic research into uncharted scientific territory to enable breakthroughs or paradigm shifts.
The Transatlantic Bridge Professorships from the Volkswagen Foundation support top US scholars in collaborative research on democracy, rights, or transatlantic relations at German institutions.
The Walter Benjamin Programme by the German Research Foundation funds early-career postdocs to independently conduct research at a host institution in Germany or abroad, supporting scientific autonomy and mobility.