Thesis Print-Cost Subsidies
Many institutions offer financial support for the printing of doctoral theses, particularly in the arts and social sciences. A few options are listed below; for a comprehensive survey of German research funding institutions, please consult the German version of this webpage. For subsidies on which information in English is not provided, international researchers may still be eligible to apply.
The University of Bonn Library also offers online publication of doctoral dissertations.
Interdisciplinary Programs
Discipline: Interdisciplinary research
Amount: Dependent on project
Gesellschaft für Kanadastudien
Discipline: Open
Amount: up to 1/3 of the estimated costs
Fazit Foundation [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Amount: Dependent on project
VG Wort [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Amount: Full scholarship
Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Humanities and Social Sciences
Geschwister Boehriger Ingelheim Foundation for Social Sciences [website in German]
Discipline: Social sciences
Amount: €1,000 to €2,500
Discipline: Literature, german, englisch, romance, cultural & media studies
Amount: Dependent on project
Amount: Up to €1,500
Discipline: gender related projects
Amount: Up to €1,500
Discipline: Aesthetics and dramatics
Amount: Not specified
Discipline: Interculural studies German-Polish / German-Greek
Amount: Dependent on project
Discipline: Interdisciplinary linkage of philosophy and neurosciences
Amount: Dependent on project
Discipline: Amarican studies
Amount: Dependent on project
Society for Missiology [website in German]
Discipline: Missiology
Amount: Not specified
Discipline: Aesthetics and dramatics
Amount: Not specified
Discipline: Feminist women's studies
Amount: Not specified
Amount: Not specified
Amount: Up to €1,000
Discipline: Resistance against NS regime
Amount: Not specified
Discipline: Pedagogy in elementary and primary level
Amount: Not specified
Discipline: Jstudies
Law and Political Sciences
Discipline: Interdisciplinary research
Amount: Dependent on project
Fazit Foundation [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Amount: Dependent on project
VG Wort [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Amount: Full scholarship
Herbert und Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation [website in German]
Discipline: Open
Theology
Georg Strecker Foundation [website in German]
Discipline: Ev. Theology
