Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration
We aim at supporting up to 40 young scientists such as PhD students, postdocs, and junior professors (without tenure-track-option). We request that you are employed at a German research institution and engaged in interdisciplinary research.
Over the curse of two years, the fellowship provides access to events and meeting by the Joachim Herz Foundation, aimed to enhance your career and network with other young economists. In addition, up to 12.500 EUR can be used flexibly and individually, for your research:
- Research stays, conference visits, summer schools and professional training courses,
- Acquisition of tools (hardware and software),
- Data acquisition or collection,
- Participation in events of the Joachim Herz Foundation and Add-on Fellow meetings.
Applicants with children receive additional funds (up to 3.000 EUR). More information on the fellowship and the application can be found in our guidelines.
Required documents:
- Complete application survey including brief description of own research and motivation,
- Description of planned use of the funds (max. 2,500 characters, including spaces),
- Résumé (max. 4 DIN A4 pages) and records of achievements,
- Supporting letter from supervisor (PhD student), group leader (post-doc) or self-chosen full professor (Junior-Professor) concerning the need for the fellowship (max. 1 DIN A4 page)
- If applicable, copy of birth certificate justifying additional funding for applicants with children.
The application deadline is July 25, 2022.
Fellowships usually start from beginning of November 2022.
The Joachim Herz Foundation annually awards 40 “Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Economics”. The fellowships aim to support PhD-students and postdocs who work on interdisciplinary economic questions.
The fellowship program addresses researchers who intend to deepen their skills in fields related to economics and whose research could benefit from such skills. Researchers from fields other than economics can also be supported if they work on issues with economic relevance. In any case, an affiliation with a public German research institution is required as the fellowships do not provide basic funding.
Fellows are supported with an amount of up to € 12.500 over the course of two years. The funds can be spent flexibly, e.g. attending interdisciplinary training sessions or workshops, attending conferences or financing research visits. Equipment, e.g. PCs, software or data, can also be purchased. The program will be tendered at least until 2022.
Jury 2021:
Prof. Dr. Nicola Breugst, TU Munich
Prof. Dr. Rolf Brühl, ESCP Berlin
Jun.-Prof. Moritz Drupp, University of Hamburg
Prof. Bernd Fitzenberger, Ph.D., Institute for Employment Research
Prof. Dr. Susanne Goldlücke, University of Konstanz
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nicole Gottschalck, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
Prof. Dr. Christian Koziol, University of Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Marc Steffen Rapp, University of Marburg
Ass. Prof. Dr. Holger Rau, University of Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Christian M. Ringle, Technical University of Hamburg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Trebesch, University of Tübingen
About our Add-On Fellows
With the Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Economics and Interdisciplinary Business Administration we support the interdisciplinary work of young scientists. Here you can see what our current and former fellows are working on and what they say about the Add-On Fellowship.
Voices
“The Add-on Fellowship has enabled me to gain independence as a research and build a research agenda of my own. The publications and skills that came out of the research activities that were supported by this Fellowship were an important basis when applying for the Assistant Professorship position at TUM.”
Prof. Dr. Janina Steinert, TU München
"The flexibility of the fellowship allowed me to get a better insight into related disciplines and to combine aspects of different worlds (e.g., law). Based on these experiences enabled by the fellowship, I plan to continue working on interdisciplinary questions.”
Daniel Blaseg, Juniorprofessor, ESADE Business School, Barcelona
“The Add-on Fellowship had a huge impact on my collaborations, network, career and perspectives. The network I built here is extremely supportive and will enable me to further improve my research.”
Astrid Harnack-Eber, Research Associate at National Student Clearinghouse
Our current and former Fellows
The fellowships aim to support PhD-students and postdocs who work on interdisciplinary economic questions. Here you will find a list of our current Fellows with their research fields and interests.