Publication funds
This page provides an overview of available funding sources to pay for your publications. It includes the University's own publication grants as well as funding from external organisations, listed by subject area. This page is only meant to give you an overview of different funding sources. Please follow the links to the pages of the individual funding bodies to find out more about them.
Internal publication funds of the University
What is funded
- Printing costs for doctoral theses
Amount of funding
- Up to 500 euros
Funding focus
- Enrolled doctoral candidates whose current income is less than 1,750 euros per month.
What is funded
- Articles in Open Access journals
- Monographs
- Collected works
- Contributions from collected works
Amount of funding
- Up to 2,000 euros per article in Open Access journals
- Up to 5,000 euros for monographs, collected works and articles from collected works
Funding focus
- Members of the University of Passau (research assistants, professors, doctoral candidates).
- Applicants can initially be funded up to two times.
What is funded
- Doctoral theses
- Postdoctoral habilitation theses
Amount of funding
- Up to 1,500 euros
Funding focus
- Members of the University of Passau whose doctoral thesis has been awarded the highest grade at the University of Passau or whose postdoctoral habilitation thesis has been accepted at the University of Passau.
Publication funding sources outside the university
All subject areas
What is funded
- Scientific publications in a German publishing house by means of a (publisher-independent) printing costs grant
- Publications in the LIT-Verlag (without assumption of printing costs)
- Digital publications
Amount of funding
- Up to 500 euros
Funding focus
- Academics
Application deadline:
- Every year in May
Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund [German content] (German Association of Women Academics)
What is funded
- Doctoral theses
- Other scientific work
Amount of funding
- (not specified)
About the German University Foundation
What is funded
- Publications that make basic research accessible for further research (essentially editions of sources and works)
- Publications of particular scientific importance in which outstanding research achievements are published for the first time (primarily postdoctoral habilitation theses)
- Doctoral theses (only in particularly justified exceptional cases)
- Not funded: Commemorative publications as well as articles in professional journals that are subject to a fee are excluded from support.
Amount of funding
- (not specified)
Funding focus
- Researchers with a doctorate
Type of funding
- Doctoral theses
- Other scientific publications (only in exceptional cases)
Amount of funding
- Up to 2,000 euros
Funding focus
- Doctoral candidates in financial need who were 28 or older when they started their doctoral studies.
What is funded
- Doctoral theses
- Postdoctoral habilitation theses
- Other scientific monographs
- Conference and anthologies
- Congress and commemorative publications
Amount of funding
- Up to 500 euros for doctoral theses, postdoctoral habilitation theses and other scientific monographs published by Verlag Dr. Kovač.
What is funded
- Doctoral theses ("summa cum laude")
- Postdoctoral habilitation theses
- Unpublished, outstanding scientific works that could not be published without financial support due to a high degree of specialisation and a small print run
Amount of funding
- Up to 12,000 euros
Law
What is funded
- Doctoral theses
- Other scientific work
Amount of funding
- (not specified)
Funding focus
- Priority funding in the field of commercial law
What is funded
- Doctoral theses
- Postdoctoral habilitation theses
- Commemorative publications (in exceptional cases)
Amount of funding
- (not specified)
Funding focus
- Law graduates whose theses have been assessed primarily with "summa cum laude" (or equivalent).
Type of funding
- Doctoral theses
- Postdoctoral habilitation theses
Amount of funding
- (not specified)
Funding focus
- Priority funding in the fields of civil law, international private law and civil procedure, comparative law, copyright and commercial law.
Business & Economics
See under "all subject areas"
Humanities and social sciences
What is funded
- Publications that contribute to studying the causes, history and consequences of the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone in Germany and in the GDR.
Amount of funding
- Up to 4,500 euros for publishing publications
- Up to 2,000 euros for publications not available through bookshops
About the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany
What is funded
- Doctoral theses
- Postdoctoral habilitation theses
- Conference proceedings and anthologies as well as commemorative publications (provided they deal with a closed topic and publish new findings)
Amount of funding
- (not specified)
Funding focus
- Promotion of the humanities in the narrower sense, i.e. no promotion of works from subject areas such as sociological theory, empirical social research, journalism and communication studies, political science, psychology, educational science/pedagogy/didactics.
Application deadlines
- Every 15 February and 15 August
About Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation [German content]
Computer Science and Mathematics
See under “all subject areas"
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