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Internal Research Funding at Paderborn University
Welcome to the website of the Committee for Research and Academic Careers! The committee is a standing committee, elected by the Senate pursuant to § 17, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution and § 22 of the Rules of Procedure of the Senate, to advice the Senate and the Executive Board on issues in research and regarding junior scientists and academics at Paderborn University. It supports the research activities of our academics with internal funding programmes.
On these pages you will find information about the Committee in general (members, tasks, objectives, dates, etc.) and the various internal research funding programmes supported by the Committee.
All faculties and status groups are represented in the Committee. Together with the Executive Board and the Senate, the committee pursues the expansion and strategic direction of research as well as the targeted funding of junior scientists and academics. The committee is chaired by the Vice President for Research and Junior Academics.
Responsibilities
The Committee for Research and Academic Careers drafts recommendations for the Executive Board:
- on participation in coordinated programmes, especially those of the German Research Foundation (DFG),
- on start-up funding for new, usually interdisciplinary research projects,
- on awarding the research prize,
- on supporting research projects at Paderborner Wissenschaftskolleg
- on reporting in the context of leave of absence and medical leave pursuant to § 40 (1) Higher Education Act,
- to establish Central Scientific Institutions
The Committee for Research and Academic Careers provides financial resources for the internal research funding of:
- doctoral grants
- gender research doctoral grants
- postdoc grants for women junior scientists and academics
- awards for excellent dissertations
- new research projects and junior scientists and academics in the faculties
- scientific conferences and PhD workshops with respect to organisation and realisation
Funding guidelines
The specific regulations for the individual funding programmes are available in the respective funding award guidelines (see funding programmes above).
Members
6 professorial representatives:
Prof. Dr. Eva Böhm, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Eckel, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Prof. Dr. Elke Grimminger-Seidensticker, Faculty of Science
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Heisler, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Prof. Dr. Werner Homberg, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (vice-chair)
Prof. Dr. Balázs Kovács, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
3 academic staff representatives:
Dr. Alexandra Hartmann, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
Dr. Oliver Seewald, Faculty of Sciences
1 non-academic staff representative:
Markus Kloidt, Faculty of Science
1 student representative:
Tim Storm, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Regular guest:
Dr. Annika Hegemann, Central Equal Opportunities Officer
The members are elected for a period of office of two years (the student representative for one year).
Further information: Rules of procedure of the Senate
Dates of meetings
(on Tuesdays, start of session: 09:00 a.m.)
| 08 October 2024 | 12 November 2024 | 10 December 2024 |
| 04 February 2025 | 11 March 2025 | 08 April 2025 |
| 13 May 2025 | 10 June 2025 | 08 July 2025 |
| 28 October 2025 | 18 November 2025 | 09 December 2025 |
| 03 February 2026 | 03 March 2026 | 14 April 2026 |
Chairman
Vice President - Vice President for Research and Academic Careers
Office: Y2.116
Phone: +49 5251 60-5331
Phone: 05251/60-3937
E-mail: thomas.troester@uni-paderborn.de
E-mail: silvia.dohmeier.fischer@uni-paderborn.de
Office
Office Committee for Research and Academic Careers
Office: B2.336
Phone: +49 5251 60-5216
E-mail: katharina.patz@zv.uni-paderborn.de
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