deadline: 15 September 2024
Open Call for Constructive Advanced Thinking (CAT) Programme 2025 – 2027
The CAT initiative fosters networks of excellent early-career researchers dedicated to tackling current or emerging societal challenges. It will provide teams of 3 to 5 persons opportunity for exchange in the best research environments Europe has to offer. During a period of up to 3 years, teams will benefit from short stays in participating institutions, which include the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, and 6 institutes in Germany.
deadline: 15 September 2024
Scholarship Program for Bavarian and Israeli Early Career Researchers
The Bavarian Ministry of Science and the Arts has set up a funding programme for early career researchers from Bavaria and Israel. These scholarships subsidy a one-month stay abroad at an Israeli or Bavarian research institute. The programme welcomes applicants from all fields of research and aims to open up new opportunities for participants to further develop their academic careers and strengthen their international ties.
deadline: 18 September 2024
Postdoc Grants in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Jerusalem)
This year the Academic Committee of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows will select up to 8 exceptionally gifted young scholars. Fellows receive a monthly stipend and are strongly encouraged to move to Jerusalem. Scholarships are granted for a maximum of 4 years, beginning 1 October 2025, on the basis of a detailed proposal of a research project of major scope and innovative character.
deadline: 23 September 2024
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Bonn: Collaborative Research Grant
Applicants from all schools and
disciplines are encouraged to submit funding applications for innovative and sustainable projects built around collaborative research linking faculty from the University of Bonn and HUJI. The research may take place in Germany and/or Israel as long as it is done collaboratively. In 2024, up to two applications will be funded. The project starting date will be 1 January 2025.
deadline: 23 October 2024
COST Open Call 2024
COST is a European funding initiative for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions. Both Israel and Germany are participating in COST. Researchers can create a network – based on their own research interests and ideas – by submitting a proposal to the COST Open Call. COST Actions have a duration of 4 years. It is also possible to join ongoing Actions. Proposals can be submitted in any science field. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
deadline: 30 October 2024
ISF-DFG Call for Joint Israeli-German Basic Research Projects
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) are pleased to announce the launch of a call for joint Israeli-German research projects in all Fields of the Sciences and the Humanities. It is expected that each partner contributes substantially to the common project. The Israeli partner is required to pre-register at ISF by 14 October. The German partner nust be registered in DFG’s elan system by 23 October 2024.
deadline: 30 October 2024
Eureka: Germany and Israel Call for Projects 2024
Eureka is a cross-border initiative for cooperation projects in market-oriented research and development. It aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the member states through innovation projects. The current call fosters ready-to-market solutions in all technological and application areas for products or technology-based services or methods. If your application is successful, you will receive a Eureka label.
deadline: 1 December 2024
IIAS: Open Call for Research Groups 2026-2027
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit Research Group proposals for the 2026-2027 academic year. Proposals may cover any research topic from all disciplines. Fellows will spend their residency at the IIAS, located at the Edmond J. Safra Givat Ram campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Residencies are open for either 10 months or 5 months.
deadline: 1 December 2024
IIAS: Open Call for Individual Fellowships 2026-2027
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit proposals for an individual fellowship at the IIAS for the 2026-2027 academic year. Topics may cover any research area from any discipline. Fellows spend their residency at the IIAS, located at the Edmond J. Safra Givat Ram campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Residencies are open for either 10 months or 5 months.
deadline pre-proposals: 14 August 2024
Cancer Research Cooperation: Call for new Projects 2024
The DKFZ–MOST programme in cancer research aims to enhance and expand scientific collaboration between scientists from the DKFZ and all academic institutions in Israel. Calls for the submission of proposals are opened every year in spring. On average, 20-30 pre-proposals are submitted. Full proposals are then invited from a short list of about 15 pre-proposals and 6 projects are finally selected. Projects start in September and run for 3 years.
deadline: 21 June 2024
Minerva Fellowships 2024 / 2025
The Minerva Fellowship Programme (funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research) enables Israeli and German scientists to complete a research stay at institutions in the respective other country. Younger scientists (graduates and postdocs) get the possibility to further their scientific background while they conduct a research project at their host institution. If you apply in June, the earliest possible start of the fellowship is 1 December of the same year.
deadline pre-proposals: 14 May 2024
M-ERA.NET CALL 2024
M-ERA.NET is a European network of public funding organisations supporting and increasing coordination and convergence of national and regional funding programmes on research and innovation related to materials and battery technologies to support the European Green Deal. Among the participants in this year’s call are both Israel and the German State of Saxony. The aim of the M-ERA.NET CALL 2024 is to fund ambitious transnational projects addressing materials research and innovation including materials for batteries and low carbon energy technologies.
deadline: 9 May 2024
Eureka Call on Applied Quantum Technologies
The national funding bodies from 16 countries (including Israel and Germany) have allocated funding for organisations collaborating on international research and development projects in the field(s) of applied quantum technology. Project application for this call can be submitted between 1 February 2024 and 9 May 2024. The project consortium must include organisations based in at least two of the countries participating in this call. Topics include (but are not limited to): quantum computing, quantum simulation and stack levels, quantum communications and cyber security, as well as quantum sensing and metrology.
deadline: 24 April 2024
Shimon Peres Prize and Shimon Peres Special Prize 2024
In addition to the regular Shimon Peres Prize, a special Shimon Peres Prize will be awarded in 2024. The Shimon Peres Prize is given to two outstanding German-Israeli projects each year. The prize honours initiatives by young people, commited to our democracies. The Shimon Peres Special Prize 2024 is open to non-profit-initiatives from Israel that have helped to deal with the aftermath of October 7 in Israel. An award ceremony is planned for 31 October 2024, in the City Hall of Berlin.
deadline pre-proposals: 4 April 2024
PRIMA Calls 2024 | Section 2
PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) is an international funding initiative that aims to address the challenges of the Mediterranean area in terms of agri-food systems and water scarcity through research and innovation. A total of 19 countries participate in PRIMA, including Israel and Germany. Section 2 topics: ‘Effective water accounting approaches under crisis conditions: climate change and external shocks’; ‘Revitalizing agroforestry practices for sustainable land use and climate resilience in the Mediterranean Region’; ‘Leveraging urban and local food systems for sustainable food systems transformation’.
