Application assistance
Our staff at the Research Support Office are happy to advise you on the choice of appropriate funding bodies and on application procedures.
The team assists you with classifying project ideas, procures information on programmes, calls for tender and requirements, and supports researchers on all matters pertaining to budget and resource planning in collaboration with the finance department. The members of staff supply text modules for general subjects such as equal opportunities and institutional strategy and review application letters. Moreover, they issue the letters of approval on behalf of the Rectorate.
Contact information
Initial contact, research strategy, Excellence Strategy
International funding bodies
National funding bodies
DFG collaborative research projects
DFG collaborative research projects and awards endowed professorships
Individual funding and awards for early career researchers, foundations
Research funding by the Federal Government and the Land of North Rhine-Westphalia
For questions about federal funding programmes and application ideas, especially with industrial cooperation partners and transfer potential, Zoom meetings are held every Thursday between 11 am and 12 pm that can be attended by anyone. Here, representatives of the departments of Research and Early Career Researchers as well as Transfer and Entrepreneurship help you search for a suitable funding programme and draft application documents and answer questions on the administrative process or on exploitation planning. Register for Zoom meeting.
Equal opportunities in academia
The Equal Opportunities Commissioner provides advice on conceptual questions with regard to equal opportunities in academia and on the implementation of equal opportunity standards in research projects and research networks:
Specific services for promoting female researchers at RUB:
