Landesgraduiertenförderung Individual Fellowships at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich

Prerequisites for an application

• Successfully completed university degree (Masters level or equivalent)
• Confirmation of admission as a doctoral researcher at a university in Baden‑Württemberg
• Academic supervision by a professor or associate professor
• Outstanding qualifications and a scientific project that is expected to make a significant contribution to current research

Please note:

• Applications submitted after the deadline, as well as incomplete applications, will not be considered.
• If you wish to withdraw your application, please notify the Heidelberg University Graduate Academy immediately.
• As a general rule, you are not eligible for a doctoral fellowship if you are currently receiving an equivalent fellowship for your doctoral studies from public or private sources or if you have received such a fellowship in the past for a duration of more than 12 months. The duration of funding received from another source will be deducted from the duration of an LGF doctoral fellowship. If you have any questions about this, please contact the Graduate Academy.
• It is not possible to receive an LGF fellowship if the following conditions apply to you:
  • you were employed as a Mitarbeiter/in nach TV-L or a wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft at Heidelberg University (not including the University Hospital) in the three months before the start of the funding AND
  • your employment consisted of a contract of more than 25% of a full-time position AND
  • the work you did has a direct connection to your doctoral project (this means that through the contract you earned income for doing the research that makes up your doctoral project).
    If this describes your funding situation, please contact the Graduate Academy.
• It is possible to be employed while receiving the fellowship only if the working hours are not more than 25% of a full-time position. Additionally, the employment must be related to the subject area of your doctorate or to a possible field of work that you could pursue after obtaining your doctorate. However, there can be no temporal, geographical, or substantive overlap between the work carried out within your employment and the activities that are funded through the fellowship.
• After you have combined your application documents into one single PDF, please check to make sure that the PDF can be opened and the contents can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.

If you are applying for the first time, please follow these steps:

• Fill out and submit the online registration form with the following attachments (in a single PDF file):
  1. Outline of your doctoral project (max. 5 pages) and a bibliography
  2. Schedule until completion of the project
  3. Curriculum vitae in table form
  4. Qualifying university degree and certificates (generally Diplom or Master; in German or English)
  5. Certificate of admission as a doctoral researcher to your faculty
• Ask two university professors to each fill out and submit a report by the application deadline.

To apply for an extension of your individual fellowship, please follow these steps:

• Fill out and submit the online registration form with the following attachments (in a single PDF file):
  1. Interim report (max. 5 pages) on the status of the dissertation

  2. Schedule until completion of the thesis

     If you are applying for a third extension, please include in the PDF a document that explains in detail the challenges and circumstances that have led to a significant delay in the progress of your doctoral project (e.g. caring for a child).

• Ask your doctoral supervisor to fill out and submit an assessment of your interim report by the application deadline.