deadline: 14 February 2025
Project funding: ‘Causes and dynamics of current anti-Semitism’
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) provides funding to individual and collaborative research projects at research institutions and universities on current challenges of anti-Semitism, especially with a view to developments after 7 October 2023. Direct funding is restricted to partners in Germany. Collaboration with foreign universities and research institutions is possible, e.g. as part of guest visits or subcontracts.
deadline: 15 March 2025
29th Call: German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP)
With this programme, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds research projects for generally up to 5 years with up to 1.655 million euros each. Up to three projects are selected each year. Only 8 Israeli institutions are exclusively eligible to apply. German scientists are not eligible to apply themselves, but are involved in the respective project via the Israeli project application. The programme is being administered by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
deadline: 31 March 2025
zukunft.niedersachsen
With the funding programme ‘Research Cooperations Lower Saxony – Israel’, the Ministry of Research and Culture in Lower Saxony and the Volkswagen Foundation support scientifically outstanding projects by researchers from Israel and Lower Saxony. The programme is explicitly aimed at scientists at an early career stage. It addresses different disciplines in different years. The current call for application invites proposals from the Life Sciences and Medicine. Call will open mid-January 2025.
next deadline: 19 May 2025
Einstein Berlin/HUJI Research Projects
Einstein Berlin/HUJI Research Projects support excellent collaborative scientific projects of the Berlin universities and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Projects must be high quality and high-risk in the most positive sense of the word. Eligibility is limited to professors at the 5 eligible Berlin institutions (Charité, FU, HU, TU, UdK). Applications can only be submitted by specific contact persons at the eligible institutions. Next deadline: 19 May 2025. Internal pre-deadline: 7 April 2025.
deadline: 21 October 2025
COST Open Call 2025
COST is a European funding initiative for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions. Both Israel and Germany are participating in COST. COST Actions bring together researchers and innovators to investigate a topic of their choice (bottom-up-approach) for 4 years. COST Actions are different to many other EU funded projects because it is possible to join and participate in a research network even after it has started running, throughout the entire lifespan of the Action. COST Info Day: 18 February 2025.
continuous | no deadline
Young Scientists Exchange Program (YSEP)
In order to encourage young scientists to engage themselves in the Water Technology Research Programme in the framework of the German-Israeli Cooperation, BMBF and MOST have initiated a young scientists exchange program in 1999. The programme is open to Israeli and German students, post graduates, doctoral degree students, and post doctorate candidates who wish to spend a training period in Israel or Germany for up to 6 month, but not less than 1 month.
new deadline: 22 January 2025
Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2025 / 2026 academic year is open to researchers in any academic discipline at eligible institutions in Israel. The program offers a two-year fellowship, with the option to extend for a third year. Exceptional postdoctoral researchers worldwide from all academic disciplines are encouraged to apply. Candidates must secure an academic sponsor based in Israel before applying.
deadline: 17 December 2024
Joint Seed Funding Freie Universität Berlin / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
With the goal of facilitating research cooperation in the framework of a stragic partnership, Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) have established a joint seed funding scheme. The 2025 call is open to collaboration of HUJI and FUB scientists in all fields. The joint funding scheme aims at supporting first steps of research collaboration (typically 5,000 – 10,000 euros per proposal).
deadline: 16 December 2024
Dubnow Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Program (2025/26)
The Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) offers fellowships to external researchers for a visit in Leipzig during the academic year 2025/26. The fellowship’s duration is two months. The call is aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral researchers working on an innovative project in Jewish history and culture. The proposed research projects should resonate with the foci of DI’s research units »Politics« , »Law« and »Knowledge«.
deadline: 5 December 2024
Max Planck-Weizmann Joint Postdoctoral Program
MPG, based in Germany, and WIS, located in Israel, have joined forces to offer a postdoctoral programme that promotes scientific collaboration and fosters interdisciplinary research. The programme has a duration of 4 years, with an equal distribution of time between MPG and WIS. This structure allows fellows to benefit from experiencing both institutions. Applicants must start the programme within four years of their Ph.D. graduation.
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: 15 November 2024
Scholarship programme of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament and Israel
Since 1988, the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament has provided the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts with scholarship funds to foster German-Israeli relations. Funding can be requested for study and practical stays of 1 to 6 months, for events and for study trips. This is not a merit-based scholarship. The programme primarily pursues an intercultural approach and aims at international understanding.
new deadline: 14 November 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. Partners should include at least one Israeli and one German commercial company. The current call fosters ready-to-market solutions in all technological and application areas for products or technology-based services or methods. Successful applicants will receive a Eureka label.
deadline pre-proposals:
13 November 2024
Water4All 2024 Joint Transnational Call
The Joint Transnational Call (JTC) “Water for Circular Economy” is launched in the framework of the European partnership Water4All and supports research and innovation projects to improve water security in the long term. Both Germany and Israel take part in this funding measure. A total of around 36 million euros is available. Projects will run for 3 years. Applications will be submitted in two phases.
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.