Grants from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Foundation

The Foundation offers grants to women scientists to support childcare and domestic help. Eligibility includes graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of all nationalities in Germany, or postdoctoral fellows who did their PhD in Germany and now work abroad. Deadline to apply is 30 November 2024.
Grants from the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Foundation
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The aim of the Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard-Foundation for the advancement of science and research is to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children in science. We especially aim to support excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows by providing them with funds to be used for additional childcare and domestic help. The Foundation intends this contribution to enable young mothers to gain greater flexibility and time for their scientific work. We hope, by way of our Foundation, to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany's leading scientific research.

To conduct research is a tremendously demanding task that bears its own set of challenges. Research requires motivation, passion, diligence, and the ability to work in a self-directed manner. Moreover, flexibility and mobility are essential in order to generate the conditions that foster high-quality research; in particular, a significant amount of time that can be dedicated to research is important. For female scientists who are also mothers the unavoidable lack of free time becomes a looming problem that invariably hinders professional progress. Breaks for any length of time or part-time positions are dangerous, since reentry into the field my not be successful. Lost time cannot be regained and previously acquired knowledge may have already become dated and thus useless. We would like to help highly qualified women who are serious in pursuing their careers to weather through this time of double responsibility and still be able to accomplish excellent research.

The grants of the Foundation are aimed at excellent women scientists in the field of experimental natural sciences. The CNV-Foundation sponsors graduate students from the start of the second year of their thesis and as long as the project is still in its experimental stage. With postdoctoral fellows we are particularly keen to support those who have changed their area of research after their doctoral studies. Funding to continue research in the area of your doctoral research project will require particularly compelling reasons stated in your cover letter.

Eligible to apply are graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of all nationalities, who are conducting their research at a university or research institute in Germany, as well as postdoctoral fellows who have obtained their doctoral degree at a German university and continue their research abroad.

Financial assistance will be given for decreasing the amount of time spent with household tasks and for additional childcare. These funds can be used to, for example, hire help, buy a dishwasher or washing machine, and for additional childcare (baby sitter during the evenings or while attending conferences).

The stipend is not intended to cover the living expenses of the applicant and her family. These must already be covered from other sources. It is expected that during the funding period the applicant work full time and full time daycare is already provided for and financed.

Information for applicants: www.cnv-stiftung.de

Application: Every year from 1 September until 30 November.

The CNV-Foundation is an independent, registered non-profit organisation.

Vorstand:
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Maria Leptin, Brigitte Mühlenbruch, Gerlind Wallon, Barbara Bludau
Geschäftsführung: Heike Heth, Max-Planck-Ring 5
72076 Tübingen Telefon: 07071/601 398
[email protected]
www.cnv-stiftung.de


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