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VolkswagenStiftung Opus Magnum 2026: Up to €220,000 to Buy a German Professor Six to Eighteen Months Away From Teaching to Finish One Major Book, Closing 18 November 2026
The Volkswagen Foundation will fund a substitute professorship for 6 to 18 months, worth up to €220,000, so that an established humanities, cultural studies or social sciences professor at a German university can write a comprehensive scholarly book, with applications due 18 November 2026 at 2:00 pm.
VolkswagenStiftung Pioneering Research — Exploring the Unknown Unknown 2026: Up to €1.3 Million Over Three to Five Years for Deliberately Risky Basic Research, Ranked First by Fellow Applicants Through Distributed Peer Review
The Volkswagen Foundation is funding radically exploratory basic research in any discipline with up to €1.3 million over three to five years, with anonymous short proposals due 27 August 2026 and a first review round in which applicants score each other's submissions.
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Early Career Fellowships 2027/2028: A Salary-Matching Stipend, Subsidized Berlin Housing, and Ten Months of Protected Research Time
The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin is accepting applications for its 2027/2028 Early Career Calls, offering researchers a salary-based stipend, a monthly living allowance, subsidized on-campus housing, and covered travel for a residential fellowship in Berlin.