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ESF PhD Scholarship – 2024 Funding Round
The aim of the funding is to realise the full educational potential of academic professionals, particularly women, by expanding their skills with a view to fostering a stable, green, sustainable and digital economy in the Free State of Saxony.
Academic professionals are to gain improved opportunities to enter Saxony’s academic and business sectors through the qualifications acquired whilst undertaking a PhD.
The educational potential of women will be realised both through targeted outreach and by establishing projects in academic departments with a higher proportion of female staff.
What is funded?
a) Industry-funded doctoral programmes
b) State-funded innovation programmes
c) Projects aimed at reconciling family life with an academic career
in each case also in collaboration between universities and universities of applied sciences as a cooperative doctoral programme
How is funding provided?
PhD scholarship to help with living costs
– for industry-sponsored PhDs: €850 per month
– for state-funded innovation PhDs and projects aimed at reconciling family life with an academic career: €1,700 per month
Child allowance for each child for whom the grant recipient (doctoral candidate) receives child benefit: €100 per month
What needs to be submitted and when?
Please submit the following documents for your promising PhD project (a 5-page project proposal in accordance with the outline, SAB form 61018 signed by both supervisors, CV and degree certificate) to profo@hs-mittweida.de by 15 November 2023.
Submissions must be made electronically only (including signatures). The project may commence between 1 June 2024 and 1 September 2024.
The scholarship, worth €1,700 per month plus a child allowance, is compatible with part-time work of up to 10 hours per week.
Contact details and further information
Contact: Matthias Baumgart
Further information is available at the following link: www.sab.sachsen.de/esfplus- richtlinie-2021-2027- hochschule-und-forschungpromotionen
