Night Science Expanded – Workshops to strategically enhance creativity supports researchers with practical workshops to develop ideas, frame research questions, and foster interdisciplinary discovery.
Registration for Foundation-funded researchers for the 11 February 2027 workshop now offers a waitlist place. The target group changed from researchers at all career stages to PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers and professors; registration links for all workshops were also updated.
Night Science – Space for the Creative Mind from the Volkswagen Foundation supports interdisciplinary researcher tandems to explore creative, unconventional ideas in the natural, life, and engineering sciences.
Scoping Workshops support researchers across all disciplines through expert working meetings that assess research fields, explore their potential, and develop recommendations for their future.
Female Science Talents Intensive Track supports early-career women and gender-diverse scientists through mentoring, leadership training, and networking to advance careers and raise research visibility.
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.
Researching Research: Strengthening University Centres supports German university Science Studies centres with structural development to strengthen interdisciplinary work and international visibility.