Supporting
your research

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We help you to get your research idea off the ground. Our support includes how to plan and realise your national, European or international project.

Our services are not only aimed at researchers at Fulda University of Applied Sciences. We also provide information on research funding for interested companies and institutions that want to plan and carry out research and development projects together with Fulda University of Applied Sciences.

National research funding

Support for researchers at Fulda University of Applied Sciences

The team national research funding offers researchers at Fulda University of Applied Sciences a comprehensive range of services. You can contact us with a finalised proposal idea and also with first project ideas. We will then be happy to discuss with you the best ways and means of realising them.

Fulda University of Applied Sciences provides internal research funding every year. These funds serve, for example, to develop innovative research ideas, prepare for larger externally funded projects and to initiate interdisciplinary research projects. If you have any questions about whether your project idea is suitable for an internal call for proposals, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Further services for researchers at Fulda University of Applied Sciences

  • Selection of a suitable research programme,
  • Development of your project idea and advise on the design of the project structure,
  • Individual support regarding the application process, e. g. budget calculation and internal coordination of administrative issues,
  • Individual support regarding the upload of the final research proposals at perspektive web portals and
  • Liaising with contact persons in charge at project management agencies or ministries.

Offers for enterprises and institutions

Research and develop together
Together with researchers from Fulda University of Applied Sciences, you will conduct research on an applied topic that affects your organisation. Your project group will receive support regarding project content and organisation. Projects can be funded at regional, national and international level. If you would like to find out more, we will be happy to advise you.

Contract research projects
We also carry out contract research and provide you with competent and solution-oriented support in the concretisation and implementation of your project. Our academic networks make it possible to set up thematic research groups.

Within a collaboration project, also students and postgrads can be involved within the scope of their BSc, MSc, and PhD projects. We will gladly assist you to make contact to respective researchers in our departments.

Offers for postdocs

Are you interested in applying for funding as part of your postdoc research? Then you can contact the Team National Research Funding with your ideas and questions.

If you have any questions about funding options at European level (for example, to apply for individual funding under the EU's Marie Skłodowska Curie programme), please contact the Team European Research Funding.

Research funding opportunities

Various databases provide information on funding opportunities for research projects.

ELFI - Electronic Research Funding Information

The ELFI database centralises information on research funding and makes it accessible to all universities. The entire spectrum of the German research funding landscape as well as a large number of European and international funding programmes are available in the online database. Tender texts, information sheets and forms can be downloaded directly from the Internet.
Access to ELFI (Please note that you must be connected to the Fulda University of Applied Sciences network in order to work with ELFI).

Research, International and Transfer Information Service - FIT for Science

FIT is an e-mail service that provides you with targeted and customised information on research funding. You can register in FIT with your e-mail address (domain "... @hs-fulda.de") and create a personalised user profile.

To the FIT information service

Funding database of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

The Federal Ministry's website provides companies and institutions with numerous funding opportunities. You can use this database to find out which funding programmes are suitable to conduct research projects together with universities.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Funding database of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

Your contacts for national research funding

Please contact us via the central e-mail address: forschung(at)hs-fulda.de

Katja Mruk Research officer

National research programmes

katja.mruk(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-7401

Alfred Stein Research officer

National research programmes

alfred.stein(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-1908

Kerstin Müller Research officer

National research programmes (currently not available)

kerstin.mueller(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-1912

European research funding

Comprehensive advice

The team for EU research funding and international research and transfer relations advices and supports university members and external partners with EU project applications, from the selection of the right program to project implementation. It offers a comprehensive advisory service in the areas of research, education, innovation and transfer. Applicants are guided through the entire process of applying for and implementing EU-funded projects.

Benefit from the experience gained in applying for and administering EU projects in the EU research funding area. Do not hesitate to contact the EU research funding team.

    Our services

    • Funding information and application advice on European and international research programmes, education and transfer programmes, such as Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, COSME, etc.
    • Support with the management and administration of EU projects
    • Representation of interests vis-à-vis EU institutions
    • Establishing and maintaining international contacts
    • Support in strategic research management, e.g. in the development of EU funding strategies

    Your contacts for European research funding

    Please contact us via the central e-mail address: eu-forschung(at)hs-fulda.de

    Viktoria Beinrott EU Research officer

    European and international research programmes

    viktoria.beinrott(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-7403

    Thomas Berger EU Network manager

    EU Projects EUROPE DIRECT and OPEN-EYE • International research and transfer

    thomas.berger(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-7404

    Jazmín Covelo Vázquez Project assistant

    EU Project OPEN-EYE

    Jazmin.Covelo-Vazquez(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-7405

    Attila Majoros Project staff

    EU Project EUROPE DIRECT

    attila.majoros(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-7408

    Simon Opitz Project staff

    EU Project OPEN-EYE

    simon.opitz(at)verw.hs-fulda.de +49 661 9640-7411

    We support your research

    Excellent research requires excellent support: Our research support team is available to provide you with all necessary information to make your research prosposal a success. We support you along the entire process of application, realisation and public outreach.

    Supporting research

    Good framework conditions for researchers
    National research funding
    European research funding
    Research centres

    Publishing

    Science communication
    Research and publishing
    Spaces for research and work meetings

    Further information

    In 2016, Fulda University of Applied Sciences was the first university of applied sciences (HAW) in Germany to be granted the right to award doctorates in social sciences with a focus on globalisation, European integration and interculturality. Other disciplines have since been added with the right to award doctoral degrees.

    Professors can award doctorates in their field of research to their graduates and also to graduates from other colleges and universities, supporting academic careers at universities of applied sciences.

    If you would like to supervise or assess a doctorate, there are differences between doctorates with independent doctoral authorisation and cooperative doctorates that are carried out in collaboration with a university. You can find out more on the following pages:

    Further information on doctoral supervision

    Further information on the doctoral centres

    Working Group for Academic Continuing Education (AGWW): The AGWW is an association of Hessian universities, of which Fulda University of Applied Sciences is also a member. The subject areas of the joint continuing education programme include leadership skills, university didactics, university development, methodological skills and social skills. In addition, special education programmes are also offered. The course programme is accredited by the Hessian Ministry of the Interior. More at AGWW Hessen.

    Further training programmes for doctoral candidates: Special education programmes are offered for doctoral candidates, which can take place at various universities. The aim of these programmes is to support doctoral candidates and those interested in doing a doctorate in their doctoral work and along the way in order to prepare them for their professional career. More under special programmes for doctoral candidates.

    The statutes regulate, among other things, what good scientific practice means at Fulda University of Applied Sciences and how misconduct is to be dealt with. It is based on the recommendations of the German Research Foundation.

    Further information

    The Fulda University of Applied Sciences maintains a committee for the assessment of fundamental ethical questions of research and ethical questions of academic research on humans. This includes foundational research, epidemiological research with personal data and research with therapeutic objectives.

    Further information

    Prof Dominik Skauradszun was appointed as the ombudsperson of Fulda University of Applied Sciences. His deputy is Prof Steven Lambeck.

    Scientific integrity of the DFG

    Statutes for good scientific practice

    Contact details of the ombudsperson of Fulda University of Applied Sciences:

    E-mail: +49 661 9640-1919

    Note for postal dispatch:
    Please mark the envelope "confidential".