Scientists – Awards and Grants
Physicist Rupert Huber with Early Career Scientists at UR's Faculty of Physics. © UR | Photo: David Ausserhofer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes
The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the highest and most prestigious German research award. Since 1985, up to ten prizes with a maximum of €2.5 million each have been awarded annually by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to outstanding scientists working at a research institution in Germany or at a German research institution abroad.
ERC Grants
With its funding lines Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants, the European Research Council (ERC) supports excellent frontier research projects.
Dr. Tomer Czaczkes at UR's "Uni goes downtown". © Julia Dragan/UR
Distinguished Professorship
The Distinguished Professorship Program is part of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts' High-Tech Agenda Bavaria.
© Prof. Dr. Julie Casteigt. © University of Regensburg | Photo: Julia Dragan
Reinhart Koselleck Projects
The Reinhart Koselleck Program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supports outstanding scientists in carrying out exceptionally innovative or higher-risk projects with a maximum of €1.25 million for five years.
Sofja Kovalevskaja Awards
The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, endowed with a maximum of €1.65 € million and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, is one Germany’s most valuable prizes for outstanding early career researchers from abroad.
"Women in Data Science" at UR. © Julia Dragan/UR
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prizes
The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize has been awarded to excellent early career researchers by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft since 1977.
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
Independent junior research groups currently funded by the Emmy Noether Programme of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft:
Focus on the Humanities (completed)
Fellow currently funded by the Freigeist Fellowship Program of Volkswagen Foundation:
"Rethinking the Balkans": History seminar project and exhibition in cooperation with UR's University Library. © Tanja Wagensohn/UR
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