Research Funding – An Overview (April 30th, 2025) – Online Training

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Third-party funds for research are important to conduct own research projects. To successfully apply for research funding, researchers need the knowledge on funding sources, processes and formalities. In this event, we provide an overview on third party-funding opportunities for postdocs in Germany and support structures at TU Darmstadt.

Content:

  • Which funding agencies do exist?
  • Which funding programmes are there for postdocs?
  • Which funding programme fits with my requirements?
  • Which conditions do I need consider?
  • Which support does TU Darmstadt offer for postdocs?

Target group: Postdocs of all disciplines at TU Darmstadt who work on a research proposal or plan to do so

Speakers:

  • Dr. Stina Preuß | Directorate VI – Research Services & Technology Transfer, TU Darmstadt
  • Dr. Yvonne Bachmann | Directorate VI – Ingenium, TU Darmstadt

Language: English

Date/Time: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 | 9:30 am – 12:30 pm

Location: Online via Zoom. You will receive a link to log in to the virtual room via email by the speakers.

Registration: Please fill in the Ingenium registration form (opens in new tab).

Stina Preuß (opens in new tab) received her PhD as a sociologist from University of Heidelberg in the field of organisational and institutional sociology. She has been managing various projects (EU-Project ITSSOIN – University of Heidelberg/ EFRE-Project INTRA Lab) and established an innovation lab in the social welfare system. Stina Preuß is the person to contact regarding DFG funding (especially CRC, TRR) and the Hessian funding programme LOEWE.

Her motto: Share as much information needed for further, independent work. And not more.

Yvonne Bachmann (opens in new tab) is a geoscientist und received her doctorate from Georg-August-University Göttingen. After different professional stages for the German Development Cooperation abroad, she took over a scientific position at the Department of Biology of Goethe-University Frankfurt doing research on the effects of climate change on savannahs of West Africa. In 2015, she switched to science management at TU Darmstadt. Here, she worked firstly as a coordinator of a BMBF-financed project for the improvement of the teacher education degree programmes. Since 2023, Dr. Bachmann is part of the Ingenium team as advisor for the promotion of R3-postdocs, the postdocs striving for professorship.

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