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Funding from foundations and state institutions
- The BMFTR promotes German-Ukrainian research cooperation and supports the sustainable reconstruction of the Ukrainian science system (external link, opens in a new window)
- The DAAD and the DAAD Information Centre in Kyiv provide information and advice on living, studying and researching in Germany + Scholarship database (external link, opens in a new window)
- Funding initiatives of the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Special Program Ukraine, for bilateral research projects (external link, opens in a new window)
- The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has compiled a collection of programs and initiatives for researchers at risk (external link, opens in a new window)
- Gerda Henkel Foundation - Scholarships for vulnerable and refugee scientists (external link, opens in a new window)
- The SCIENCE AT RSIK Emergency Office (Berlin) offers counselling and emergency aid for academics affected by the war in Ukraine (external link, opens in a new window)
- Information and support services from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) (external link, opens in a new window)
- BMFTR (formerly BMBF) information brochure "Funding your research in Germany" for foreign students and researchers (opens in a new window). (This PDF is not accessible)
- Max Weber Foundation promotes international cooperation in the field of the humanities and social sciences with their Ukraine Research Center in Lviv, established in 2025. (external link, opens in a new window)
Funding for natural sciences and life sciences
- Leopoldina Ukraine Distinguished Fellowship for the resumption or continuation of research activities that were interrupted due to the war (external link, opens in a new window)
- The Helmholtz Association conducts research at 18 centres in the fields of energy, environment, health, information, aerospace and matter (external link, opens in a new window)
- The Max Planck Society promotes international cooperation in science and is particularly active in Central and East Europe through the Dioscuri Centres (external link, opens in a new window)
- EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organisation) collection of laboratories in Europe and beyond that host Ukrainian researchers in the bio/life sciences (external link, opens in a new window)
- Ukrainian Short-Term Fellowships for Molecular Scientists - FEBS (Federation of European Biochemical Societies) (external link, opens in a new window)
Funding for social sciences and humanities
- The Competence Network Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies Frankfurt (Oder) - Berlin "KIU" strengthens Ukraine-related research, teaching and networking (external link, opens in a new window)
- The Centre for Interdisciplinary Ukrainian Studies "Denkraum Ukraine" at the University of Regensburg brings together expertise in the history, culture, politics and economy of Ukraine. (external link, opens in a new window)
- ZOiS (Berlin) is an independent, interdisciplinary research institute focussing on socially relevant, social science research on east europe (external link, opens in a new window)
- Academy in Exile (AiE) support cultural producers and scholars in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and law who are at risk because of their academic work and/or their civic engagement with various fellowships (external link, opens in a new window)
- UKRAINE funding line of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation and the HERMANN REEMTSMA FOUNDATION (external link, opens in a new window)
- Scholarships from the Georg Eckert Institute for Research on the Production, Content and Appropriation of Educational Media in Schools - Leibniz Institute for Educational Media (external link, opens in a new window)
- Deutscher Verband für Kunstgeschichte - Funding programmes and institutes that accept refugee researchers (external link, opens in a new window)