Starter Scholarships for Doctoral Candidates

The Starter Scholarship is awarded for a one-year period only. During that time, recipients are expected to develop an excellent research proposal that will be used to apply for further funding, e.g. for scholarships from the many German sponsorship organizations. The Starter Scholarship amounts to 1.468 EUR per month. Scholarship holders will receive support throughout their Starter Scholarship in identifying further funding opportunities. This support will be in form of workshops, mentoring, advisory services and access to a rich research community.

In addition, scholarship holders are provided with office space, necessary equipment and funds for conference travel. Once having secured further funding for the next 2-3 years, candidates will remain doctoral members of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences and will continue to work in Bamberg under the supervision of their initial professors.

All documents need to be submitted as a single PDF (max. 30 MB).

In this single PDF, you must arrange your documents in the following order:

1.    Cover Letter
2.    Curriculum Vitae
3.    Abstract
4.    Research Proposal
5.    Work Schedule
6.    Academic degree certificates and university grade transcripts
7.    Proof of language proficiency
8.    Short self-written statement about your knowledge of German
9.    Statement of knowledge of research methods
10.  Privacy Policy Agreement

Applications that are not submitted in this order will not be accepted.

Free software for creating PDFs and merging them into a single document is available on the internet, e.g. the PDFcreator.
Please, use your surname to name your application file (SURNAME.pdf; make sure to avoid special characters).

Please submit your application here.

In case of technical problems, please contact us: admissions.bagss@uni-bamberg.de