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Käte Hamburger Kollegs; application for funding

Excellent researchers from the humanities can apply for funding for a Käte Hamburger Kolleg at their university.

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Procedure details

If you are a proven excellent researcher in the field of the humanities, you can apply for funding of a Käte Hamburger Kolleg by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) at your university.

In funding line II of the call, there is also the possibility of researching issues in the humanities in cooperation with life, natural, technical or engineering sciences. Thus, researchers from these disciplines can also be included here.

The Käte Hamburger Collegia are designed to give you the opportunity to

  • to promote an internationally visible and effective focus on the German humanities at the universities or colleges and to strengthen the links to foreign research foci and excellent institutions,
  • to gain academic freedom through extensive release from university obligations in order to be able to develop and pursue self-chosen research questions,
  • to form a learning community which, through systematic confrontation with other cultures of knowledge, puts one's own self-evident assumptions to the test,
  • to involve international colleagues in their research work at German universities or colleges,
  • to further develop the methods of the humanities - including comparative, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Universities or higher education institutions can receive individual funding of up to 100 percent. Universities can receive an additional project allowance of 20 percent for non-economic research projects.

They can receive funding for:

  • Personnel expenses
    • Head of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities: A scientist with a salary of W2/W3 or comparable can be granted up to 101,100 EUR per year (including ancillary personnel costs) to replace the exempt head of the Center. In addition, another professorship of the university in the form of a substitute can be assessed with up to 101,100 EUR.
    • Fellows: Up to 10 fellows or their substitutes with a salary of up to W2/W3 or comparable can be included with up to 101,100 EUR per year (including ancillary personnel costs). These personnel expenses are settled either by invoice from the sending university to the recipient of the payment or by proof of payment of a stipend to the fellow.
    • Service staff: Scientific staff (or postdocs), project managers, office clerks, secretarial staff, and student and research assistants are to be charged at the hourly or monthly rates customary at the university.
  • Non-personnel administrative expenses:
    • Expenses for consumables, business supplies, literature, postal and telecommunications charges, and printing may be budgeted in advance at a flat rate of up to 10 percent of the total amount of personnel expenses. It is possible to apply for funds for the translation of significant works in the humanities related to the respective college program. The above-mentioned types of material expenditure do not include other material expenditure, for example for events and public relations work. These are generally eligible for funding, but not within the lump sum.
    • Travel expenses: For business trips within Germany, a pre-calculated amount of up to 5 percent of the total personnel expenses can be budgeted. For business trips abroad, a pre-calculated estimate based on estimated values per scientist and fellow can be submitted.

You cannot receive funding for the usual basic equipment.

There is no entitlement to the grant. Rather, the granting authority decides on the basis of its dutiful discretion within the framework of the available budget funds.

For the 1st stage of the procedure: Project outline with the following information:

  • Cover sheet with project name, postal address, telephone and e-mail of the sender as well as information on total costs, funding requirements and duration.
  • Initial question, objectives and social need of the planned project
  • State of the art in research and technology, novelty of the solution approach, own previous work, data basis, differentiation from previous and ongoing national and international research work
  • Presentation of cooperation partners in the scientific collaboration
  • Description of the own solution with underlining of the methods to be applied
  • time and work budget
  • tabular financing overview
  • Exploitation plan including economic and scientific-technical prospects of success, connectivity,
  • Letter of intent from the university with explanations on the involvement of the college and, if applicable, the university's own contribution.

For the 2nd stage of the procedure: full proposal consisting of AZA(P) application and detailed project description with the following information:

  • Summary of the project
  • Overall objective of the project
  • Description of the state of research
  • Detailed description of the project and the work plan
  • Integration into the university, intended on-site collaborations
  • scientific results and exploitation plan
  • concrete time and financial planning (Gantt chart, resource plan)

For applicants in funding line II, the following must also be included

  • Concept for cooperation between the two scientific fields,
  • concrete formats for transdisciplinary collaboration
  • Letter of intent from the university (see outline)

  • Required Documents
    • Skizzenphase:
      • Vorhabenskizze, Letter of Intent der Hochschule
      • Projektblatt (easy-Online)
    • Antragsphase:
      • Vollantrag mit Vorhabenbeschreibung,
      • Letter of Intent der Hochschule und AZA(P)-Antrag

The application procedure for funding Käte Hamburger Kollegs has 2 stages.

Stage 1: Project outline

  • You submit a joint project outline of a maximum of 15 DINA4 pages (1.5 line spacing, Arial font, size at least 11 point) to the project management organization (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V./DLR Projektträger) and via the PT-Outline portal.
  • In addition to preparing the project outline, you must print out the PTOutline project sheet, sign it, and send it by mail to the project management organization (PT).
  • The project outline will be evaluated in a competitive procedure with the participation of external reviewers according to the following criteria:
    • Originality and scientific quality of the collegiate program, taking into account international, interdisciplinary and university references,
    • scientific qualification of the applicant,
    • Perspectives of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary cooperation,
    • Internationality of the research project,
    • Contribution to profile building at the university,
    • Exploitation perspectives, visibility, and connectivity/sustainability, with special consideration of knowledge transfer and science communication,
    • Eligibility of the requested funds.

For funding line II, the following strongly weighted criteria are added:

    • Scientific quality of the joint transdisciplinary research question,
    • conception of the transdisciplinary collaboration, including formats that serve to develop a common research language, joint research exchange, and a common publication culture.
  • If your project idea was positively evaluated in the written review, you will receive an invitation to present your project idea to a panel of reviewers. If your project idea was convincing in the presentation and thus evaluated positively, you will receive a written invitation to submit a full proposal (stage 2).

Stage 2: Application

You submit your application for a Käte Hamburger Kolleg grant as follows:

  • The application is submitted online via the "easyOnline" portal.
  • Call up the "easyOnline" Internet portal. There you will be guided step by step through the application process.
  • Fill in all the fields required for the application and submit it with a qualified electronic signature.
  • If you do not have a qualified electronic signature, you must print out the application in addition to submitting it electronically, sign it, and send it to the project management organization in the next step along with the other application documents.
  • Once the application has been received by the project management organization, you will receive a confirmation of receipt.
  • The responsible person at the project management organization will contact you while your application is being processed in order to clarify any queries.
  • Applications will be evaluated and reviewed according to the following criteria:
    • Implementation of any conditions imposed in the first stage and compliance with the financial framework recommended there for funding.
    • Eligibility of the requested funds;
    • Necessity and appropriateness of the requested funds
    • Comprehensibility of the explanations for the financing plan, including, in the case of companies, a description of how the company's own contribution will be raised.
  • You will receive a decision on your application.
  • In the event of a positive decision, you will receive a notification of funding by mail.

Levy: none

You can submit your project outline to the assigned DLR project management organization of the BMBF at any time. However, please note the evaluation deadlines for project outlines:

  • Expression of interest procedure 3rd round: 31.10.2023
  • Submission of outlines 3rd round: 15.01.2024

The submission deadline is not considered a cut-off date, but project outlines received after the above date may not be considered.

Processing time until the full application is processed. (9 to 12 months)

  • administrative claim

Status: 25.08.2023
Editorially responsible for prodecure description: Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
Source: Federal Portal
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