This program offers support to scholars and scientists to pursue research at universities and other institutions in Germany for one to three months during the calendar year. Grants are awarded for specific research projects and cannot be used for travel only, attendance at conferences or conventions, editorial meetings, lecture tours or extended guest-professorships.
Stipends consist of a monthly maintenance allowance.
The purpose of this grant is to enable Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D.s to carry out dissertation or post-doctoral research at libraries, archives, institutes or laboratories in Germany for a period of one to six months during the calendar year. Applicants should possess knowledge of the German language commensurate with the demands of their research projects. The grant consists of a monthly maintenance allowance, international travel subsidy and health insurance. This program provides support for travel and living expenses for scholars and scientists at US universities as well as university affiliated research institutes, who wish to carry out joint research projects in the natural, engineering and social sciences with colleagues at German universities and Fachhochschulen . The application should emphasize that the project will foster the advancement and specialization of young scientists within the framework of the proposed collaboration.