In the area of scientific instrumentation, sustainable and resource-conserving usage can consist of repairing defective or older instrumentation and upgrading it to the latest standard instead of replacing it with a new one. When submitting a proposal to the DFG, funding can therefore also be requested to upgrade existing instrumentation (instead of purchasing new instrumentation).

The "Standard Allowance for Equity and Diversity” module and the sections on the promotion of gender equality in proposals submitted under coordinated programmes were expanded to all dimensions of diversity in order to support a cultural shift towards greater diversity in the research system as a whole.

Suitable candidates can be proposed to the Executive Board of KIT until April 10, 2024. The target group are scientists who have developed an independent research profile since completing their PhD, which must not date back more than 6 years, and who do not yet hold a W3 professorship. Each year, several prizes worth 200,000 euros each are awarded. FOR contact: Aleksandra Olszynka

Funding of up to €1.95 million is provided per research group for a period of five years. Priority is given to research topics that make cooperation across the boundaries of the classical natural science disciplines imperative.

With this funding program, the Carl Zeiss Foundation (CZS) supports unconventional research projects by interdisciplinary groups.

With the newly established funding opportunity, researchers who initiate transformation processes through joint research with non-academic partners can apply for up to €1.8 million.

Provided in the third-party funding portal and in the “KIT Formular- und Vorlagenmanagement” (template management SharePoint homepage).

Please only use this version as structural changes have been made to the form.

The measure KIT Future Fields funded within the framework of the university of excellence concept specifically supports scientists at KIT who are pursuing highly innovative, high-risk projects at the frontiers of science and at the interface between disciplines which are expected to give rise to scientific breakthroughs. The calls for proposals for Stages 1 (idea generation) and 2 (pilot projects) are open, deadline in January 2024.

Due to the dissolution of the Special Fund for Large-scale Research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, some information on the applicant institution has been adjusted for applications to the federal and state ministries. Please refer to our new templates.

The HEiKA project call is addressed to scientists at KIT and Heidelberg University. It aims at funding joint cooperation projects with high innovation potential in the period from 1.1. to 31.12.2024. The funding volume comprises a maximum of 80,000 EUR per project. The project selection will take place on 17.10.2023 in Karlsruhe.

Joint project ideas can be submitted by mail to info@heika-research.de up to and including 28.8.2023.

for the subject-specific and practical supplementation of the code "Guidelines for Ensuring Good Scientific Practice".

Announcement of the University of Excellence project via circular from the Presidential Board.

on Horizon 2020 Actions.

FAQs on UK Participation

Horizon 2020 Underwrite Q&A

The KIT Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V. (KGF) has awarded prizes to employees in administration and infrastructure for particularly outstanding achievements in support of science. Eva Kühhirt (FOR) received the prize for outstanding achievements in the application and project management service FORscience. Aleksandra Olszynka (FOR) was awarded for outstanding support and coordination of nominations for high-ranking science awards.

The DFG reestablishes the Collaborative Research Center "Consistency in the Sift-Based Development of Cyber-Physical Systems" (CRC 1608, Spokesperson: Prof. Ralf Reussner, KASTEL) at KIT with a funding of about 11 million EUR. Also, the successful research within the CRC 1173 "Wave Phenomena: Analysis and Numerics" (Spokesperson: Prof. Marlis Hochbruck, IANM) can be continued for another 4 years with a funding of about 11.5 million EUR. The continuation of GRK 2450 "Tailored multiscale methods for computer simulations of nanoscale materials" by Prof. Marcus Elstner (IPC) was also approved.

For their projects "SupraSense" and "LAMI-PERO", chemist Frank Biedermann (INT) and physicist Ulrich W. Paetzold (IMT) will each receive an ERC Consolidator Grant. Over the next five years, the ERC will fund the projects with approximately 2 million euros and 2.4 million euros, respectively.

New Collaborative Research Center SFB 1573 "4f for Future" researches and develops molecular compounds with extraordinary properties. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) coordinates the collaborative research center, which also involves Philipps University Marburg, LMU Munich, and the University of Tübingen. The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund the interdisciplinary alliance with more than ten million euros over four years starting January 1, 2023.

Professor Anke-Susanne Müller of Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT) received the 2022 Baden-Württemberg State Research Award, which comes with 100,000 euros, for her achievements in basic research. With her team, Müller is making groundbreaking contributions to enhancing the stability, compactness, and energy efficiency of particle accelerators.

Scientists of KIT work on the further development of the required technologies in the three lead projects: H₂Mare studies possibilities to directly produce hydrogen and its derivates at sea with the help of wind energy plants. In TransHyDE, the partners develop, evaluate, and demonstrate hydrogen-based technologies and solutions for hydrogen transportation. H₂Giga studies series production of water electrolyzers, i.e. plants for hydrogen generation with electric power.

For their projects in the fields of hydrogen embrittlement, ion dynamics, and digital art, materials researchers Christoph Kirchlechner, physical chemist Lars Heinke and art historian Inge Hinterwaldner, respectively, will receive up to two million euros each for the next five years.

2.5 million for "ScAlBox - Engineering Scalable Algorithms for the Basic Toolbox".

DFG funds the RTG "KD2School" and the RTG "SiMET" will be continued.

GRK MatCom-ComMat started on 01.04.2020