Advice for doctoral students
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EU GREEN: 3 min Fame Competition 2025/26
PhD students from all EU GREEN Alliance universities are invited to participate in the “3-Minute Fame” competition. Share your research through a three-minute video, showcasing your work to an international audience.
How to participate:
- Create a three-minute video explaining your research in way easy to understand in English.
- Submit your entry through the official platform.
- Only for OVGU applicants: You can get professional support from the Media Center
- HANDOUT - Terms & Conditions
- Deadline: February 2, 2026
- Submission Platform
- The top 3 winners of each university will present their work at the 2026 EU GREEN PhD Summer School in Wrocław / Poland in April 2026
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Deutscher Studienpreis 2026
German Study Prize 2026
Are you convinced that your dissertation will make a difference to society? Are you able to clearly explain the social significance of your dissertation project in a short text? Did you complete your dissertation with magna or summa cum laude in 2025?
You are invited to apply for the German Thesis Award 2026. Knowledge of the German language is necessary in order to apply. The application essay as well as a presentation in front of the jury are in German. Additionally, participants need either to have German citizenship or to have earned their PhD from a German university to be eligible.
- Please find all the information on the conditions of the study prize online in German
- Apply by March 1, 2026
DAAD scholarship program “EFR Future Scholarships - Green Hydrogen”
Green Hydrogen - Call for Applications and FAQ - DAAD
German and international Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs are supported.
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Research stay 1-12 months |
Research stay 1-12 months |
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Internship 2-6 months |
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Incoming |
Research stay 1-18 months |
Research stay 1-18 months |
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Internship 2-3 months |
In particular, we would like to draw your attention to the internship funding, as we have received several job offers for internships abroad. You can find the vacancies here: ERA Fellowships – Green Hydrogen Internship Opportunities - DAAD
Interested students can apply directly to the DAAD for the scholarship and one of the advertised internships. Alternatively, Master's and PhD students can also organize an internship themselves and apply for a scholarship only.
Current application deadlines:
PhD and postdoc applications can be submitted at any time, but four months before the planned stay.
The program is aimed at German and international doctoral students and postdocs in all disciplines related to green hydrogen for research and internships in Germany and worldwide.
Interested parties can apply directly in our scholarship database:
- Incomings: Scholarship Database - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- Outgoings: Stipendien finden und bewerben - DAAD - Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
Our team will be happy to answer any questions you may have: gh2@daad.de
Mobility Programm France
The Procope Mobility programme specifically supports the mobility to France of young researchers affiliated with a laboratory or research institute located in Germany. These mobility grants will allow them to carry out a research stay in a laboratory or research institute located in France.
All areas of research are eligible. The mobility grant will finance a stay of one, two or three months, which will start no earlier than 18 May 2026 and no later than 31 December 2026.
Candidates will be asked to indicate in the application form the desired length of stay and to argue this choice with regard to the objectives and the work programme.
The number of three-month scholarships is limited. Its obtaining will depend on the number of applications and the classification of the files by the selection committee.
- All details online
- Application deadline January 12, 2026
KlarText Prize for Science Communication 2026
“What did you actually do in your doctoral thesis?”
– The answer to this question is the focus of KlarText, the Klaus Tschira Foundation's prize for science communication! The foundation is looking for young researchers who have written an excellent doctoral thesis and are keen to explain to a non-scientific audience what they actually did in their research. This should take the form of an article that is understandable to the general public or a clear infographic.
All scientists who have written a doctoral thesis in biology, chemistry, computer science, geosciences, mathematics, neurosciences, or physics in the past two years are eligible to apply. Those who have earned a doctorate in a related field but whose work can be classified in one of the seven areas are also welcome to apply.
The best entries will be selected in three stages by a jury of media professionals and researchers and awarded 7,500 euros each – in each of the seven subject areas.
It's worth getting involved!
- The best articles and infographics will each receive €7,500 and be published in the science magazine KlarText.
- The winners will be accepted into the Klaus Tschira Foundation's active alumni network.
- All information online
- Application deadline: February 28, 2026
