Deadline:
March 31, 2025
Location(s)
Germany
TU Dresden
Overview
The Maria Reiche Doctoral Fellowships are specifically for graduate women pursuing doctoral degrees. Eligible are all female graduates, who intend to earn a doctoral degree at TU Dresden and who are not working more than two years on their doctorate and whose funding by scholarships, third-party funds etc. has ended.
Details
Please note: The membership at Graduate Academy is mandatory when applying for funding or has to be requested within two months’ time after funding approval.
- Duration of funding: The scholarship is awarded for a maximum period of three years depending on the available budget. The scholarship funding ends with the month in which the dissertation thesis is submitted, at the latest after three years.
- Extent of funding: The monthly grant consists of EUR 1,365.00 and if applicable, a monthly family allowance of EUR 400.00 for the first and EUR 100.00 for each additional child.
- Application deadline: 31st March
- Earliest start of grant: 1st October
- Latest start of grant: 1st March of the upcoming year
Technische Universität Dresden
The Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) is one of the largest “Technische Universitäten” in Germany and one of the leading and most dynamic universities in Germany. As a full-curriculum university with 17 faculties in five schools it offers a broad variety of 124 disciplines and covers a wide research spectrum. Its focuses Health Sciences, Biomedicine & Bioengineering, Information Technology & Microelectronics, Smart Materials & Structures, Energy, Mobility & Environment as well as Culture & Societal Change are considered exemplary in Germany and throughout Europe.
Since 2012, TUD has been one of the “Universities of Excellence”. In the second phase of the Excellence Initiative, TUD was successful with four applications: The Institutional Strategy, the Clusters of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) and the Graduate School Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB. In January 2019, three new Clusters of Excellence have started their work: PoL – Physics of Life, ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials, and CeTI – Centre for Tactile Internet.
As of 1 November 2019, TU Dresden will receive permanent funding within the framework of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments.
About 32.000 students are enrolled at TUD – more than three times as many as in 1990 (11.220 students). Internationally, the TUD has earned a good reputation, about one eighths of its students come from abroad. Today, about 8.300 employees from 70 countries are working at the Technische Universität Dresden.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Who can apply?
Female (prospective) doctoral candidates at the TU Dresden, who are not working more than two years on their doctorate. The two years are considered to be completed latest in the month before the requested funding period begins.
Who cannot apply?
You cannot apply if you will be employed as a research assistant (for 19 hours per week) or hold an employment relationship or receive funding from another institution (such as private funding institutions, industry) during the applied period of funding.
Doctoral candidates of the faculty of medicine are also not eligible.
Dates
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
- Duration of funding: The scholarship is awarded for a maximum period of three years depending on the available budget. The scholarship funding ends with the month in which the dissertation thesis is submitted, at the latest after three years.
- Extent of funding: The monthly grant consists of EUR 1,365.00 and if applicable, a monthly family allowance of EUR 400.00 for the first and EUR 100.00 for each additional child.
All awardees, who are funded in accordance with the scholarship regulation of 13 July 2011 (that means all scholars who received funding before 2016), can apply for special allowances for material and travel expenses for up to EUR 1,500.00 during the funding period. The prerequisites for granting special allowances are that the expenses are essential for the realisation of the research project, that it is unreasonable for the grantee to pay for the expenses on her own, and that budget funds are available. The Vice-Rector for Research awards the grants on the basis of the decisions made by the former senate committee for early-career scientists.
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