Support for research stays abroad
How do I finance a research stay abroad?
Weltkugel auf Geldscheinen
Jena University supports you if you wish to arrange a stay abroad during the time of your doctorate. In the context of international research you acquire important scientific and cultural additional qualifications no matter whether you go abroad for a research activity, the participation at a conference or a workshop abroad.
Jena University encourages you to build important scientific and cultural skills within an international research context, which will increase your competitiveness in the later career choice as it may increase your occupational opportunities within as well as beyond academia.
While doing a doctorate at Jena University, the key contact person for a research stay abroad is your academic supervisor. Together with the supervisor, you can target a host university and decide on funding, supervision abroad as well as when a stay abroad would be useful and how long it should take.
A stay abroad is an integrative component of many structured programmes and graduate schools at Jena University.
Funding at Jena University
- Exchange programmes and PhD opportunities of Jena University (in German)
Overview by the international office of PhD opportunities. Further information regarding the financing of a stay abroad for students and doctoral candidates can be found here. - ProChance - promoting scientific communicative exchange of young researchers
The programme ProChance supports doctoral candidates and postdocs of Jena University when actively participating in a scientific event with an own contribution and in events that lead to an increase in scientific qualification. - Promotion of guest lectureships (in German)
The programme ERASMUS promotes guest lectureships of German researchers at an associated European university. - Increase of Landesgraduiertenstipendien
Support of research stays abroad between 30 days and 12 months by means of an add-on grant
Promotion of young talents (Begabtenförderungswerke)
The 13 organisations for the promotion of young talent (Begabtenförderungswerke) have scholarship opportunities for complete doctorates in Germany including research visits abroad if necessary.
- During their research visit abroad doctoral candidates must be enrolled at a German university.
- Doctoral candidates doing their complete doctorate abroad and doctoral candidates in the final stage of their doctorate are not eligible for scholarships.
- There are foreign allowance supplements according to the country of your choice.
- Please apply right at the beginning of your doctorate.
Other funding possibilities
- Erasmus PlusExternal link
The programme offers financial support for university institutions and scholarships for individual people. Please write to ga-international@uni-jena.de to receive more information about the current partner universities of FSU Jena. - Scholarship database of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)External link
You may specifically research certain scholarship programmes according to host country and subject area. HintsExternal link regarding the application at the DAAD (in German). - Foreign allowances for scholarship holdersExternal link
Within the DFG post graduate programme foreign allowances are possible for the duration of stays abroad from 4 weeks on. - Scholarship guide of the Federal Ministry of Education and ResearchExternal link
You may specifically search for PhD opportunities for your stay abroad with the scholarship guide
Further information
- EURAXESS – Researchers in MotionExternal link
(Portal of the European Commission for researchers who would like to go abroad) - Mobility and academic communicationExternal link
(Collection of links regarding the topic mobility on the server for German education) - Studying abroad with a childExternal link
(Project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the EU for the promotion of mobility with a child)
Dr. Alexander Schwarzkopf