Funding opportunities at LMU

Whether you're on the road to a professorship or pursuing a career outside of academia, LMU supports you in your postdoctoral phase to get your career well planned out. We do this by helping you broaden your international horizons and establish yourself as an independent researcher through networking and mobility.

Research:

• The Junior Researcher Fund promotes the individual career development of junior academics (who have gained no more than six years of professional academic experience since having completed their doctorate) by providing support for the independent procurement of externally funded and peer-reviewed research projects, particularly of prestigious research prizes and awards directed at junior academics.
• Through the Junior Researchers in Residence program, the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) offers outstanding junior academics an attractive opportunity to conduct intensive research on a single topic for one full semester.
• The CAS Young Center comprises outstanding LMU junior academics, including holders of renowned awards and scholarships.
• The Postdoc Support Fund provides additional resources to LMU’s individual faculties to facilitate flexible, subject-specific promotion of postdoctoral researchers, particularly for the recruitment of international postdocs, to facilitate the continuation of scientific activity, e.g. following periods of parental leave (re-entry funding), for networking activities, as well as for open-access publishing activities.
  Some faculties present their Postdoc Support Fund offers on dedicated websites:
  Faculty of Catholic Theology
  Faculty of Economics (integrated in the Junior Development Program)
  Faculty of Medicine
  Faculty of History and the Arts: History Department
  Faculty of History and the Arts: School of the Arts
  Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Studies
  Faculty of Languages and Literatures (integrated in the Nachwuchsförderprogramm)
  Faculty of Social Sciences
  Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics
  Faculty of Geosciences (integrated in funding@geo)
• The Knowledge Transfer Fund provides seed funding for projects aimed at the development of basic research into technological, social or economic innovations.

Internationalization:

• Through the Postdoc Support Fund, established as part of the LMU's funding as a University of Excellence, our faculties promote international networking, from conference trips to hosting your own conferences and workshops.
  Some faculties present their Postdoc Support Fund offers on dedicated websites (see above under „Research“).
• Harnessing LMU's international network, postdocs are given a number of opportunities to build international networks and take advantage of mobility. This is enabled, for example, via the many strategic partnerships nurtured by LMUexcellent or the Erasmus+ mobility network.

Mentoring:

• Within the scope of the LMU Mentoring program, excellent junior academics can seek career advice from personally selected mentors and receive subject-specific guidance in developing their careers.

Publication:

• The LMU Open Access Fund supports open access publications with a grant towards publication costs.

Subject-specific funding opportunities can be found on the sites of our faculties, collaborative research projects, and doctoral programs.

The Tenure Track Model offers junior academics an early-stage, attractive career path towards a permanent professorship at LMU. Tenure-track professors at LMU can draw on a variety of support in building their academic profile.

Research:

• The Investment Fund provides seed funding for the procurement of large-scale third-party funding projects directed at innovative research ideas and the establishment of new research fields.
• The Junior Researcher Fund promotes the individual career development of junior academics (who have gained no more than six years of professional academic experience since having completed their doctorate) by providing support for the independent procurement of externally funded and peer-reviewed research projects, particularly of prestigious research prizes and awards directed at junior academics.
• As a forum for cross-disciplinary academic exchange, the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) promotes various types of cooperative research and academic exchange.
  
• The CAS Young Center comprises outstanding LMU junior academics, including holders of renowned awards and scholarships.
  

Internationalization:

• By harnessing LMU's international network, there are numerous opportunities to build international networks and take advantage of mobility. This is enabled, for example, via the many strategic partnerships nurtured by LMUexcellent or the Erasmus+ mobility network.

Equal opportunities:

• In order to increase the proportion of women among professors, the Adele Hartmann Program additionally promotes the appointment of outstanding female researchers to W2 professorships.

Publication:

• The LMU Open Access Fund supports open access publications with a grant towards publication costs.

Subject-specific funding opportunities can be found on the sites of our faculties, collaborative research projects, and doctoral programs.