Research Funding in Bavaria

The State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts provides financial support for research and teaching at universities by equipping them.

Bavarian research is also promoted via the Bavarian research associations , where scientists of various disciplines and universities cooperate closely with partners from commerce and industry on topics with potential for the future.

In addition, the following funding programmes are also available:

• The Bavarian programme FLÜGGE supports the foundation of enterprises by university graduates or staff members.
• The so-called Bonus Programme (a programme encouraging research financed by sponsors from commerce and industry) pays financial rewards for the acquisition of funds from third parties for carrying out specific applied research assignments (Bonus Programme of Bavarian Universities , Bonus Programme of Bavarian Universities of Applied Sciences ). By introducing the so-called "Research Bonus" in 2007, the German federal government took up this idea. The Bavarian Bonus Programme was therefore slightly modified in order to turn it into a useful additional measure for applicants from Bavaria.
• Within the framework of the Bavarian Genomic Research Network the State Ministry supports several research groups (junior and senior) in the future-oriented field of genomic research.
• The Bavarian Immunotherapy Network (BayImmuNet) supports clinical research groups as well as clinical and pre-clinical research and technology projects.
• The Bavarian Research Foundation contributes funding to applications-oriented research projects run jointly by the universities and commerce and industry.
• The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG), financed by the federal government as well as by the state governments, plays an important role in promoting research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions in Germany. Particularly notetworthy is the funding of Collaborative Research Centres, long-term university research centres in which scientist and researchers work together with a cross-disciplinary research programme. At the moment, Bavarian universities participate in more than 50 Collaborative Research Centres .

The up-and-coming generation of scientists receive financial assistance in particular though:

• Funds for students, scientists and artists
• Elite Network of Bavaria
• Foundations supporting gifted students

Other sources of funding:

• Research funding by the European Union
• German Research Foundation
• German Academic Exchange Service
• Humboldt Foundation
• Federal Funding Databank
• Equality of opportunity for women in research and teaching

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