Our Funding Portfolio

The Volkswagen Foundation is dedicated to the support of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology in higher education and research. It funds research projects in path-breaking areas and provides assistance to academic institutions for the improvement of the structural conditions for their work.
Funding portfolio
We focus our funding activities on selected initiatives. By means of these initiatives, we endeavor to provide effective stimuli for research and to establish forward-looking topics.
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Additional Funding for Science Communication
The offer is aimed at grantees currently receiving funding from the Volkswagen Foundation.
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all disciplines
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funding for: innovative measures for science communication
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Challenges and Potentials for Europe: Intergenerational Futures
The call "Challenges and Potentials for Europe: Intergenerational Futures" is aimed at international research groups from the social sciences, cultural studies and humanities.
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Circularity with recycled and biogenic resources
The current call within the funding line 'Collaborative projects' of this initiative is primarily targeted at the natural sciences and engineering.
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area of research: natural sciences, engineering
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type of funding: research projects
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Data Reuse – Additional Funding for the Preparation and Storage of Research Data (Open Science)
The funding offer aims at grantees of the Volkswagen Foundation, eligible are current projects and projects that have been funded approximately in the last 6 months.
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area of research: all
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funding for: preparation and storing of research data
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Lichtenberg Endowed Professorships
The "Lichtenberg Endowed Professorships" are aimed at outstanding academics conducting research in innovative and interdisciplinary fields.
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all subject areas
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funding for: professorship
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Momentum – Funding for Recently Tenured Professors
The funding offer is aimed at professors three to five years after taking up their first tenured professorship at a university in Germany.
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area of research: all disciplines
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type of funding: concepts for the broadening of perspectives
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NEXT – Neuromorphic Computing
This call aims at fostering collaboration and networking between scientists from the diverse research areas engaged in the field of "neuromorphic computing" and other recent approaches beyond the mainstream von Neumann architecture.
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area of research: natural sciences, engineering sciences, life sciences
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type of funding: workshop participation incl. travel expenses, research projects
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Open Up – New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies
The funding initiative addresses teams of two or three researchers who aim to explore new and original research spaces.
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area of research: humanities and cultural studies, theoretical social sciences
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type of funding: research projects; funding of a teaching substitute
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