Financial Support

Every year, our faculty is allocated funds from the Financial Incentive Scheme for the Promotion of Gender Equality Measures under the faculty’s gender equality plans. Funding opportunities include, for example:

• SHK or WHK positions for early-career female researchers
• Start-up funding for doctoral studies
• Doctoral completion, postdoctoral or habilitation grants
• Travel grants for academic travel
• Information events outside the university on individual degree programmes
• Purchase of literature and software
• Printing grants
• Translation costs for publications
• Support for guest lectures by female researchers or invitations to cooperation partners by female researchers at the UR
• Further training
• Measures under the Faculty’s equality policies

Further information can be found in the guidelines on the financial incentive scheme for promoting equality (external link, opens in a new window) (pdf file 128 KB; accessible only via the university network).

During the current calendar year, you may submit applications to the Faculty's equal opportunity representative. Please ensure your application includes the following::

• completed application form (download Word file)
• cover letter with a brief explanation and motivation for the application
• tabular CV
• copies of relevant certificates
• when applying for SHK/WHK positions, scholarships and academic travel, please enclose a letter of support or justification from your supervisor
• a brief statement confirming that no funding is being received from other sources, or that, should funding be granted by another party, the approved funds will be repaid by mutual agreement
• for conference attendance: a clear breakdown of costs

Submit the application in electronic form and as a single document to: petra.hilgers​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program)

To promote equal opportunities for women in research and teaching, the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts provides funding for the ‘Programme for the Realisation of Equal Opportunities for Women in Research and Teaching’. The funds are intended to support highly qualified early-career female researchers on their path to a professorship and are to be used to cover the researcher’s living expenses. The level of the grant rates and the general funding guidelines are determined by the State Conference of Women’s Representatives at Bavarian Universities. The University of Regensburg (UR) is expanding this programme with additional and supplementary funding as part of the supplementary gender equality measures under the Federal and State ‘Professorinnenprogramm III’ (Programme for Female Professors III).

On this basis, and under the leadership of the University Equal Opportunities Representative for Women in Science and the Arts, UR awards grants once a year amounting to the full funding allocated to it by the State of Bavaria.

Subject to the allocation of funds and subject to budgetary approval, the following grants will be advertised for the calendar year 2026:

(1) Doctoral start-up grants
(2) Doctoral completion grants
(3) Postdoctoral grants
(4) Habilitation grants
(5) Post-habilitation grants

Call for applications and award round:

Application deadline: 1 May 2026

earliest funding: 1 July 2026

Further information on the different types of scholarships and the eligibility criteria, as well as the start date of funding and the application procedure, can be found here:

Scholarships for female researchers in the early stages of their careers (external link, opens in a new window)

To support the professional development of female researchers at the University of Regensburg (UR) who are on the path to an academic career, additional grants for material and travel expenses, as well as funding for research assistants, will be made available until 31 December 2027.

Target group: Postdoctoral researchers, researchers preparing for a habilitation, and private lecturers at the University of Regensburg on fixed-term contracts, W1 professors, and advanced doctoral candidates from faculties in which the proportion of women among doctoral graduates has averaged less than 50 per cent over the past four years (for applications in 2025: Catholic Theology, Law, Economics, PKGG, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry/Pharmacy).

Benefits: Grants for material and travel expenses as well as funding for research assistants, which contribute to the development of the academic career and for which no other funding is available.

Applications may be submitted at any time.

You can find the full call for applications here: Call for Applications and Funding Guidelines 2024 – 2027 (external link, opens in a new window)

Contact for enquiries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program) | Telephone 0941 943-3581

To provide targeted support for female researchers in the early stages of their careers, the University of Regensburg is offering grants until 31 December 2027 to fund research stays abroad and to promote mobility and internationalisation.

This cross-faculty programme is designed to fund longer-term, in-depth research trips abroad or stays abroad for further training and international networking for female researchers in the early stages of their careers. This initiative aims to support highly qualified female researchers on their path to becoming university lecturers by integrating them into the international academic network. The mobility grant is a university-wide structural initiative to promote gender equality in academia.

Here you will find the guidelines for the international mobility grant: Call for appilcations and funding guidelines (external link, opens in a new window)

Contact for enquiries: Equal Opportunities Coordination Office | chancengleichheit​(at)​ur.de (opens your email program) | Telephone 0941 943-3581

Application deadline: 1 May 2026