Research funding

Research Funding of REaCh

REaCh would like to actively promote the visibility of early career researchers and therefore announces at least once a year a research funding for postdocs, junior research group leaders as well as junior professors of all departments of the RPTU.

The goal of the funding is to support the applicants in a research project that serves to promote the applicants’ careers and is to be carried out within the framework of an activity at RPTU. The funded research project should either serve to prepare an application for outside funding or a fellowship (funding up to 10,000€) or result in a scientific publication (funding up to 3,000€). Projects that serve to promote young scientists and do not aim to obtain outside funding or to prepare a publication can be applied for within the framework of project funding of REaCh. The application for outside funding/fellowship or the publication must be submitted no later than one year after the start of the support.

Funding from REaCh can be used for preliminary scientific work, such as running experiments and/or simulations, for field trips to take samples, for research trips (e.g. archives), for financing assistants or for project related material resources. 

Funding cannot be used for travels to conferences (see funding line mobility funding) or to pay for the applicant’s own position For smaller projects that do not necessarily result in a publication or a third-party funding proposal, the funding line "flex funding" is offered.

In general:

• Prerequisite for funding is individual membership in REaCh. Please also note our criteria for using the offers of REaCh.
• Researchers who have already been funded by REaCh within the framework of research funding must also provide a brief explanation of the status of their already approved project when submitting a new application. In these cases, renewed approval is subject to proof of submission of the intended third-party funding application/publication.
• Each applicant may submit no more than one application for research funding per call for proposals, either with the objective of “submitting an application for external funding or a scholarship” or with the objective of “submitting a scholarly publication.”