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Research Funding

Document on a table with four hands on it, two of them holding pens — Photo: Rolf K. Wegst

Here, you will find links to databases where you can search for appropriate funding for your (research) project:

FIT (Information Service Research, International Affairs, Transfer – FIT for Science; service provided by various universities in Germany)
Scholarship pilot (scholarship database of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF))
Foundation search (foundation database of the Association of German Foundations)
kisswin.de (information on funding opportunities)
H-Soz-Kult (H-Soz-Kult list of funding opportunities for historians)
e-fellows.net (scholarship database at e-fellows.net that includes research projects, etc.)
Research Funding at Philipps-Universität Marburg
EURAXESS research funding database (European information portal on research funding opportunities)
German Center for Research and Innovation (scholarships, programs, and other funding opportunities for graduates and doctoral candidates)

Or try out crowdfunding:

Sciencestarter (German-language crowdfunding platform for science, set up by Wissenschaft im Dialog)
Kickstarter (German-language crowdfunding platform)