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Short-term scholarships in fall 2025 for (prospective) PhD students

Are you an MA graduate planning to do or already pursuing a PhD in linguistics or a related field? Would you like to spend a few months doing linguistic research with us in Berlin? Do you have an idea for a small project, a short study or an interesting collaboration related to the CRC? Apply for a short-term grant!

The CRC (Collaborative Research Center) 1412 “Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation”, funded by DFG, investigates aspects of register knowledge on the part of the language users. The integrated Graduate Project of the CRC offers a number of short-term fellowships of 3 or 4 months for the year 2025.

Find out more about the research profile of the CRC and its sub-projects on our website: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/.

Please read the conditions and information about the scholarship carefully before you apply.

Requirements

  • Enrollment in a PhD program or MA degree or equivalent (not yet a doctorate)
  • The scholarship can start in September or October 2025 and must be completed by the end of 2025.
  • Proposed projects should be carried out within one of the 18 CRC sub-projects. The hosting PI of the selected sub-project must have been contacted before submitting the application and must have confirmed the association.

Please understand that applications that do not fulfill these conditions cannot be considered.

Application

  • Your application should consist of:
    • A short project description of 2-3 pages including: title of the project, CRC subproject and name of the PI(s) who have confirmed the affiliation, timeline, requested start date (Sept/Oct) and duration of the fellowship (3 or 4 months).
    • a CV
    • the MA certificate or/and a letter of enrollment in a PhD program
  • Applications are reviewed by a committee of experts from the CRC.
  • Please send the application as a single PDF file to anne.temme@hu-berlin.de.

Important information about the scholarship

  • The scholarship amounts to €1,468 per month.
  • During this time, the scholarship holders are members of the HU or ZAS. The place of work is Berlin. 
  • Health insurance is not covered by the scholarship.
  • Additional income / further scholarships must be declared. Any income will be deducted from the scholarship.

Deadline

  • The initial deadline for application is May 5th, 2025. Later applications can also be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted. Please contact us briefly to enquire whether a late application is still possible.
  • We will consider applications submitted by the end of July 2025 at the latest.