Scholarships

Graduate Funding from the German States (Landesgraduiertenförderung)

KIT supports PhD projects under the "Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz" (Graduate Funding from the German States) with full scholarships. However, you will have to be accepted as a doctoral researcher at the respective KIT Department to be eligible to apply.

The ▶ detailed information contains further aspects about the funding opportunities of the Graduate Funding from the German States as well as the current application deadlines.

Scholarships from External Sponsors

A huge number of foundations and organizations offer funding for junior scientists during the course of their scientific career. We would like to offer you a current overview of the different funding options. We are trying to keep the information up to date.

Please click on the target group to find the grant or funding option that may suit your needs! For ease of reference, the relevant foundations and organizations have been arranged in alphabetical order.

▶ Funding for Doctoral Researchers
▶ Research Travel and Visiting Researchers Scholarships

The following databases might help you to find various funding possibilities:

▶ Online network for scholarships and career – e-fellows
▶ DFG – Funding Programmes
▶ Study Support – MyStipendium (only available in German)
▶ EU Scholarship Portal
▶ Kisswin – information and consulting for academic careers
▶ DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
▶ Euraxess database
▶ FIT (Scholarships and various other funding measures, only available in German)
▶ Deutsches Informationszentrum Kulturförderung (Funding for Humanities)
▶ Association of German Foundations (mostly non-academic, search engine only in German)