Jochen-Kalden-Funding Programme

The Jochen-Kalden-Funding Programme offers an attractive career development opportunity for outstanding young scientists with a training in medicine or natural sciences and a strong background and reputation in one of the Faculties‘ main research fields.

 

Eligible to apply are

• Newly appointed W1/ integrated W2 or W3 professors from external with tenure track or a comparable option of tenure at the Faculty of Medicine (note: those appointed internally from a position in Erlangen are no longer eligible to apply from 2025),
• who have already taken up their professorship in Erlangen at the time of application,
• who finished their doctorate not more than 8 years ago (Natural scientists) or 10 years (medical professional) (in addition, up to 24 months (women) and 12 month (men) per child can be credited),
• whose start of employment at the time of the application was no more than 2 years
• and who do not yet have significant funding for junior research groups (e.g. Heisenberg, Emmy Noether, Max Eder Group, etc.).

Staff and consumables

• Staff: Graduate student and technical assistant
• Consumables: 40.000 € Sachmittel p.a.
• Duration: 24 + 12 month (if a third-party funding application is submitted to a LOM-listed third party funding agency (at least twice listed))

• Use of the special programmes of IZKF. (Travel and Publication Pool)