Research stays

The MIN Graduate Center (MINGZ) offers doctoral students at the MIN faculty a partial funding of research stays abroad up to 2 months.

The application has to be submitted via Geventis.

Research stays up to one month (or shorter) at an international partner university of UHH.

Application deadline (to be announced beginning of March): End of May for stays in the next year.

The Canon Research Fellowship offers interdisciplinary financial support of a research stay in Japan lasting 3 up to 12 months (for European doctoral students).

Application deadline: mid-September

DFG research fellowships for research projects abroad.

Erasmus+ for doctoral students

Fulbright scholarship offers research stays from four up to nine month at an institution in the USA. Support of young researchers at the beginning of their doctoral studies (for German doctoral students)

Application deadlines: mid-September or mid-March, concerning research stays that begin half a year later at the earliest

Hamburglobal PhD provides funding of research stays of up to two months for doctoral students in relation to the core research areas, areas of potential or profile initiatives of Universität Hamburg.

The Minerva Stiftung für die Forschung supports doctoral students of all disciplines with its fellowship programme. Doctoral students are supported for between 6 and 36 months.

Application deadline: 13 January 2022

The University of California, Berkeley and Universität Hamburg have been successfully collaborating within the framework of a university partnership since 2000. The partnership originated from a variety of informal research contacts and has developed into a strategically and thematically significant cooperation involving many of Hamburg’s faculties and research areas.

Both partners continue to further develop their collaboration: In early 2018, the Institute of European Studies (IES) and Universität Hamburg established a university-wide exchange program for doctoral candidates. Within this program, two doctoral candidates per academic year may conduct research at the partner university for one to three months under special conditions. Doctoral candidates are required to independently find a supervisor. Potential supervisors and research areas at UC Berkeley can also be found in the overview “Affiliated Faculty and Lecturers.”

Application deadline: December 10

Exchange places: 2 per year

Duration of stay: 1 to 3 months

Research areas: all

Academic qualification: PhD candidates

Scholarship: USD 1,500 reduction of the registration fee