The ZGaPL supports the organization of meetings, conferences and summer schools at the RPTU as well as events on cross-campus research cooperation with financial resources.

Prerequisites for funding:

• scientific character of the event
• The application promises a high quality event.
• RPTU is the organizer of the event (as a rule, the sponsored events should be held at the university or in the immediate vicinity).
• Additional funding is required, i.e. the event cannot be organized without a grant from this funding line.
• If possible, it is assumed that an application for funding for the event has been or will be submitted to a third-party funding organization (e.g. DFG, BMBF, Thyssen Foundation or similar).
• Applications are approved subject to the availability of funds.
• For applications from profile and potential areas of the research initiative, a justification is required as to why no funds are available for the event.

Sponsorship by regional and supra-regional sponsors does not exclude funding through this funding line.

Applications can be submitted at any time. Applications are processed in the order in which they are received (at the end of each month).

Documents to be submitted:

• Brief description of the project and preliminary list of participants and, if applicable, presenters (for RPTU members, please indicate the department affiliation)
• Preliminary financing plan
• Poster or flyer of the conference announcement / call for papers or invitation letter
• Specification of a cost center of the organizing person(s) or the organizing unit (e.g. institute, work unit) from TG 71

Lump-sum grants:

Conference, workshop: up to €1,000

Event for cross-campus research collaboration: up to €1,500

National conference: up to €2,000

International conference (at least 10 external speakers): up to €3,000

Important: Costs for catering and representation costs cannot be funded. In the case of approved applications, costs will be reimbursed after submission of invoices for the actual expenses up to the maximum funding flat rates.

Summer schools can be funded in the same way as conferences.

Please send all documents summarized in a PDF file to the following address:
zgapl-orga-tagungen[at]rptu.de