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PIER offers funding for seed projects, joint workshops or short visits of international colleagues in your field.

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PHGS Travel Awards for doctoral researchers

Outstanding doctoral researchers of the PIER Helmholtz Graduate School (PHGS) can apply for a PHGS Travel Award to pay for travel to and participation in scientific events. Find out more...

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PIER Funding: Seed Projects Call 2024

NEWS | 8 Feb. 2024 | Funding / PIER Seed Projects

You are an early-career researcher at DESY or UHH/UKE? You have an innovative idea for a joint DESY/UHH (or UKE) research project?

Apply now for seed funding at PIER!

PIER Seed Projects promote innovative and unusual research ideas with a strong cross-institutional dimension in the PIER research fields particle & astroparticle physics, nanoscience, photon science and infection & structural biology. New this year is also the inclusion of artefact profiling into the list of research fields eligible for funding. Projects must involve researchers from DESY and UHH/UKE.

Please klick here for more information.

Deadline for application: 08 April 2024

Contact: info@pier-hamburg.de

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