Application Assistance

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

Assistant to the Vice Rector for Research and Transfer, Awards for Early Career Researchers, Foundations, DFG Individual Funding, DFG Collaborative Research Projects

Research Alliance Ruhr, Excellence Strategy, DFG Collaborative Research Projects, DFG Individual Funding

Excellence Strategy

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.