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Einstein Foundation Berlin

Programmes

Funding Programmes

Funding applications are made through the Berlin universities or the Charité. In general, applications must be endorsed by two of the partner institutions involved (the university executive board/the head of a non-university research institute). You can access the Foundation’s funding statutes here.

Personal funding

Einstein Professorship

Einstein Strategic Professorship

Einstein Visiting Fellow

Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow

Einstein Junior Fellow

Einstein Research Fellow

Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellow

Academic Freedom

Project funding

Wegweiser zu den Fragen rund um die Einstein Forschungsvorhaben

Einstein Research Project

Einstein Circle

Structural funding

Einstein Center

Einstein Research Unit (Berlin University Alliance)

Deadlines

Einstein Visiting Fellows
- 15.01.2021
- 08.11.2022
Please get in touch with your institution's contact person (listed below) to inquiry about the universities' earlier, internal deadlines.

Einstein Centers
Applications for new Einstein Centers can be submitted in January of each year after consultation with the Einstein Foundation. The same applies to renewal applications which should be submitted ca. three years after the begin of the first funding phase.

Academic Freedom

- 31.03.2021

all other programmes
- 07.05.2021 // internal university deadline: 26.03.2021
- 08.11.2022 // internal university deadline: 15.09.2021

In the following programmes, no applications can currently be submitted:
- Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow

Grants advice

Dr. Julio Decker

Officer
Grants advisory and Processing

T: +49(0)30 20370–403

jd(at)einsteinfoundation.de

Markus Rackow

Officer
Grants advisory and Processing
T: +49(0)30 20370–261
mr(at)einsteinfoundation.de

Contact persons

Before submitting your application to the Einstein Foundation, please contact the respective contact persons at your institution:

Freie Universität Berlin:
Dr. Claudia Niggebrügge

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
Dr. Christoph Raiser

Technische Universität Berlin:
Dr. Stefan Schlelein

Dr. Martin Steiof (für Einstein-Professuren und -Zentren)

Universität der Künste Berlin:
Mandy Heinze
Julia Warmers (für Einstein-(Profil-)Professuren und -Zentren)

Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin:
Kerstin Dlab

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EINSTEIN PROFESSORSHIP
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN STRATEGIC PROFESSORSHIP
Programmblatt | Antragsformular

EINSTEIN JUNIOR FELLOW
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN INT. POSTDOCS
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN VISITING FELLOW
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN RESEARCH FELLOW
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN GUEST RESEARCHERS
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN JUNIOR SCHOLARS
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN RESEARCH PROJECT
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN CIRCLE
Programme info | Application form

EINSTEIN CENTRE
Programme info

Forms

Form detailing expenditure of funds

Form requesting drawdown of funds

Checklists for interims and final reports can be found on the German pages for each programme.

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The Einstein Foundation Berlin was founded in 2009 by the State of Berlin. The Foundation funds cutting-edge science and research in Berlin and helps to strengthen the city's reputation as one the world's foremost research hotspots.

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