Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowships Grant

Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowships Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Freie Universität Berlin
Amount: Up to €2,750
Last Updated: September 26, 2025

Summary

The Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowships provide up to one year of dissertation or postdoctoral research support at Freie Universität Berlin. Open to scholars in social sciences and humanities, these fellowships offer EUR 1550 per month for 10 to 12 months, along with a travel reimbursement of EUR 1200. Applicants must be full-time graduate students at a North American university, have completed all Ph.D. coursework, and achieved ABD status before their research stay.

Overview

About The Berlin Program offers up to one year of dissertation or postdoctoral research support at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on German and European history since the mid-18th century. We offer five different fellowships: Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowship, Berlin Program Postdoc Fellowship, Max Kade Berlin Postdoc Fellowship, Kerstin Leitner Berlin Dissertation Fellowship and Kerstin Leitner Berlin Postdoc Fellowship. Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowships Fellowships for dissertation research are EUR 1550 per month (as of October 1, 2023) for 10 to 12 months and carries a travel reimbursement of EUR 1200. Applicants for a dissertation fellowship must be full-time graduate students at a North American university, must have completed all coursework required for a Ph.D. and must have achieved ABD (all but dissertation) status by the time the proposed research stay in Berlin begins.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website.