Research and Travel Grants – Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.

An overview of all academic awards and funding opportunities of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V., including deadlines, can be downloaded here. Usually, successful applicants will be awarded their funding after all receipts have been submitted to our treasurer. However, we understand that upfront costs can be prohibitive for some projects. We therefore encourage potential applicants to contact our funding officer so that we can arrange a way to transfer the grant funding upfront. If you have any questions or comments about our funding schemes, please also contact our funding officer.

Stipends for early-career researchers

The Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. supports research of early-career researchers by providing funding up to €500 for BSc & MSc theses stipends and up to €1,000 for PhD-pilot-projects. The goal of these stipends is to support:

BSc & MSc theses.
Pilot studies for PhD-projects.

Deadline for submission is 31 March each year. Applications should be submitted by e-mail to our funding officer. Applicants are strongly encouraged to use the respective forms, i.e. for BSc & MSc students and for PhD students, and will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of their application by e-mail. Each application, handed in complete and timely, will be reviewed by members of the extended council. Criteria are the scientific quality of the project, the excellence of the applicant, and the expected benefit of the funding for the project.

Please note that applicants need to be members of our society (for PhD students: member for at least one year; for BSc & MSc students: member at the time of application). In addition, applicants need to be actively involved in all phases of the project.

Applications must contain the following:

Name, address, and affiliation
Project title, summary, background information, research question with predictions and hypotheses, methods and time schedule, references
Estimation of costs, other available funds
Declaration of Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. membership and active involvement in the project

Successful applicants render their stipends according to the regulations for accounting and expenses of the society. Successful applicants are encouraged to present their project at one of the societies’ annual meetings or the ECBB and to summarize their findings in a report that will be published in EthoNews. Publications or presentations of projects that were funded by the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. should contain statements, highlighting the financial support.

Research funds

The Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. provides up to €2,000 per research project. The funds can cover material expenses as well as travel and subsistence costs (of applicant only). The goal of funding is to support:

Particularly promising pilot studies or investigations at an early stage that would not normally be eligible for funding from governmental organizations or science foundations.
Smaller or additional projects that are – though important – due to their small volume unlikely to be funded elsewhere.

Deadline for submission is the 31 January in each year. Applications should be submitted by e-mail to our funding officer. Applicants are strongly encouraged to use the provided form and will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of their application by e-mail. Each application, handed in complete and timely, will be reviewed by members of the extended council. Criteria are the scientific quality of the project, excellence of the applicant, and the expected benefit of the funding for the project.

Applicants need to be members of our society for at least one year and need to be actively involved in all phases of the project. Please note that no other person than the applicant can be supported by this this grant.

Applications must contain the following:

Name, address, and affiliation
Project title, summary, background information, research question with predictions and hypotheses, methods and time schedule, references
Estimation of costs, other available funds
Declaration of Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. membership and active involvement in the project

Successful applicants render their funds according to the regulations for accounting and expenses of our society. The results of the project should be summarized in a research report that will be published in EthoNews. Furthermore, successful applicants are asked to present their project at one of the societies’ annual meetings or the ECBB. Publications or presentations of projects that were funded by the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. should contain statements, highlighting the financial support.

Conferences and meetings

Organizers of the Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. may apply for up to €1,000; the yearly Graduate Student Meeting which is organized in cooperation with the section Behavioural Biology of the DZG can be supported with up to €500. Furthermore, the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. supports the European Conference on Behavioural Biology (ECBB) with up to €1,000. Successful applicants can use the funds according to the aims of the society (support of Behavioural Biology in science and teaching) such as the organization of the meeting.

There are no deadlines or specific forms for submissions. Applications should be submitted by e-mail to our awards and funding officer. Applicants will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of their application by e-mail. Each application will be reviewed by at least one member of the council.

The applicant is rendering the funds according to the regulations for accounting and expenses of our society and will usually obtain an advance payment on request. Please contact our treasurer for details. All meetings are open to the members of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. and will be announced in the EthoNews and on this website.

Travel grants

Members of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V. may apply for a contribution of up to €500 for active participation (poster or talk) at the European Conference on Behavioural Biology and for up to €300 for the Annual Meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft e.V.. To reduce our individual and collective carbon footprints, the society encourages applicants to consider environmental friendly forms of transport. Note that the society will not fund flights within the EU for distances shorter than 1,000km.

The deadline for travel grant applications is the same as the abstract submission deadline for the corresponding meeting. Applications can be submitted to our awards and funding officer, at any time, using this form, and will receive an acknowledgement of receipt of their application by e-mail. Each application will be reviewed by at least one member of the extended council. Applicants need to be member of our society (priority is given to long-term members and those who have not previously received an EthoGes travel grant).

The applicant is rendering the funds according to the regulations for accounting and expenses of our society.