Funding

The conference travel grant of Fachhochschule Dortmund is a business travel grant. Applicants must be working at and be enrolled as doctoral candidates at Fachhochschule Dortmund. Another requirement is an active participation in the conference (oral presentation, paper or poster).

Financial aid is limited to €1,000 per conference trip and doctoral year. Doctoral students can apply for a total of max. €3,000 per person.

Two times a year, the International Office offers a travel grant for doctoral students. Partial funding for research stays of at least one and a maximum of three months may be granted. Field research or visits to archives are also eligible for funding. All doctoral candidates enrolled at Fachhochschule Dortmund may apply for funding.

Equal opportunity funds are regularly used to finance a doctoral position for mothers pursuing doctoral studies, which is awarded in the course of the regular doctoral funding process.

Mothers pursuing a doctoral degree can be supported by a research assistant (WHK) and a student assistant (SHK) employed at the Graduate Center. They can assist with literature research, literature acquisition, as well as with transcriptions or the like.

In order to support the successful completion of doctoral theses of mothers(-to-be), Fachhochschule Dortmund awards completion grants. These measures are meant to support mothers pursuing their doctoral degree under difficult circumstances (especially related to the pandemic). The scholarship can be granted for one year for the completion of the doctoral thesis.