IntCDC Grants & Awards

The IntCDC Best Publication Award recognises up to two excellent publications per year to honour and strengthen early academic independence and dedication to academic work. It is endowed with €1,500 each.

IntCDC Best Publication Award | Call for applications is published in March each year.

For more information about the award, application requirements, and selection process, please see the Confluence information page or contact Karolin Tampe-Mai.

The IntCDC “Blue Sky” Project Grant, endowed with €10,000 recognizes a research idea for its originality, quality and risk-taking. It supports testing the feasibility of a research idea for a full dissertation or postdoctoral project.

All early career researchers and advanced master’s students from the IntCDC institutes are eligible to apply.

IntCDC “BLUE SKY” PROJECT GRANT | Call for application is published in May each year.

For more information about the award, application requirements, and selection process, please see the Confluence information page or contact Karolin Tampe-Mai.

The IntCDC Master’s Thesis Awards encourage excellent master’s students to realise a first step towards a prospective academic career by recognising excellent master’s theses research.

Up to two Master's Thesis Awards, each endowed with €500, will be granted each year to master’s students, who completed their master’s thesis at one of the institutes participating in IntCDC. Candidates have to be nominated by their thesis advisors.

IntCDC Master’s Thesis Award 2023 | Call for application is published in July each year.

For more information about the award, application requirements and selection process, please see the Confluence information page or contact Karolin Tampe-Mai.