International Affairs
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Funding Opportunities for Researchers and Staff

International Affairs offers TU Berlin staff internal funding programmes for international research and cooperation projects as well as information and advice on external programs. This overview is not exhaustive.

Funding and information offers at International Affairs

Traveling to cooperation partners

To help develop new cooperations and strengthen existing ties, you as a professor can apply for grants to cover your travel expenses to partner universities.

Inviting guests

Professors interested in inviting international guests to Technische Universität Berlin can find here information about suitable funding options, daily and monthly flat rate payments for living expenses, and details about how to apply.

Funding offers for mobilities

International Affairs offers researchers and staff a variety of opportunities for funding individual mobility (Erasmus+, TU Berlin staff mobility programme, funding for mobilities of junior researchers).

Erasmus+ cooperation projects

The Erasmus+ program offers a range of funding lines for supporting international cooperation projects. We offer you information about the funding lines most relevant for TU Berlin as well as the Erasmus+ specific application procedures at TU Berlin.

Chorafas Prize

The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation annually awards international prizes to doctoral candidates for outstanding research work.
Please find more information about the next round of funding here.

Oxford-Berlin

The University of Oxford has a partnership with the four member institutions of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA). Innovative scientific cooperation in the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and STEM subjects are funded at institutional level within this partnership.

ENHANCE scholarships for research and study visits

Within the framework of ENHANCE, Master's students and doctoral candidates have the opportunity to apply for a scholarship for research or study visits of 1 to 3 months at one of the ENHANCE partner universities. Information on funding can be found here.

Bench-Fees

Bench fees can be used to cover certain costs of the hosting academic chair (e.g. for teaching, research, books, office supplies, phone etc.).

A single payment of 51 euros is paid for each month a visiting scholar completes at TU Berlin.

Please note that no funding is available to finance stays for students and doctoral candidates.
It is also not possible to receive a payment if you are already receiving similar funding from another institution such as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

If you wish to apply, please provide us with the following information:
- Title and name of your visiting scholar
- Home university including country and city
- Length of stay
- Cost center for transferring payments

Contact: Annika Röpke

PROMOS: Funding of study trips by the DAAD

The PROMOS program aims at increasing student mobility by providing scholarships for short study trips abroad. It is intended to offer students the opportunity to spend time abroad at destinations otherwise not eligible for funding in any of the TU Berlin's existing exchange or dual degree programs.
Applications are open to TU Berlin professors who are planning and carrying out a study trip.
Deadline for the first call 2024: 4 March 2024 (The next call will be published in mid-2024).

SPRINT - TU Berlin FAPESP cooperation initiation program (Brazil)

Members of TU Berlin may apply for mobility and cooperation initiation funds together with researchers from the state of São Paulo within the framework of the SPRINT funding program. The call is open to researchers from all disciplines. The only requirement is that the Brazilian partners must already be funded by FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation). Approved projects will be funded by TU Berlin and FAPESP with 20,000 € (10,000 EUR each) p. a. over a period of up to two years.
The results of the evaluation of the SPRINT I/2023 call will be published on September 29 at 2 p.m. and can be accessed here.