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Funding Organization Funding Organization Funding Organization European Research CouncilThe ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe.Funding Organization German Federal Environmental FoundationThe purpose of the Foundation is to promote research, development and innovation in the field of environmentally and health-friendly processes and products, with particular emphasis on small and medium-sized enterprises. Exchange of knowledge about the environment between science, business and other public or private bodies, projects for the communication of knowledge about the environment. Preservation and protection of nationally valuable cultural assets with regard to harmful environmental influences (model projects), preservation and restoration of the national natural heritage (projects of outstanding national importance).Funding Organization Alexander von Humboldt FoundationThe purpose of the Foundation is to promote science and research as well as intercultural understanding. The purpose of the statutes is realised in particular by the Foundation giving highly qualified academics from abroad the opportunity to carry out a research project in the Federal Republic of Germany, irrespective of gender, ethnic origin and national affiliation, religion or ideology, by granting research scholarships and research awards, by taking other measures to promote international academic cooperation and by maintaining and promoting the resulting connections.Funding Organization Adalbert Raps FoundationThe Foundation selflessly pursues exclusively and directly charitable and benevolent purposes within the meaning of the tax regulations by granting donations to a) charitable institutions of the Catholic Church and other tax-privileged institutions which have as their objective the care and support of elderly people who are dependent on the help of others and largely sick, disabled or socially disadvantaged young people; b) tax-privileged institutions for the promotion of research in the field of the food industry. The foundation purpose mentioned under a) must be fulfilled with priority.Funding Organization Funding Organization Volkswagen FoundationThe purpose of the Foundation is to promote science and technology in research and teaching.Funding Organization Gerda Henkel FoundationThe purpose of the Foundation is the promotion of science, primarily by means of specific technical and time-limited work in the field of the humanities and its publication, in particular by promoting research projects and organising and holding specialist scientific conferences of domestic and foreign scientists on outlined topics in the humanities; by awarding scholarships - in particular research and doctoral scholarships - to domestic and foreign scholars; by undertaking and promoting measures in the field of the protection of historical monuments on a scientific basis as well as by undertaking and promoting all measures which are suitable to serve the purpose of the Foundation; by carrying out measures to raise public awareness in the fields of the aforementioned purposes.Funding Organization German Research FoundationThe German Research Foundation (German: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) is a multidisciplinary institution for the promotion of science and research in the Federal Republic of Germany. The funding budget is taxpayers' money, two-thirds of which is provided by the federal government and one-third by the federal states. Members of the DFG are largely higher education institutions and research institutions of "general importance" as well as the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities.Funding Organization Stiftung Mercator GmbHThe Society exclusively and directly pursues charitable, benevolent and scientific purposes within the meaning of the charitable regulations of the German Tax Code. The purpose of the Society is: to promote science and research, education and upbringing, art and culture, religion, international understanding, development aid, environmental protection, landscape conservation and the protection of historical monuments, the idea of homeland; to promote youth welfare, assistance for the elderly, public health, welfare and sport; general promotion of the democratic state in the Federal Republic of Germany; selfless support of persons who are dependent on the assistance of others as a result of their physical, mental or emotional condition, or other beneficiaries within the framework of § 53 AO.Funding Organization Funding Organization Fritz Thyssen FoundationThe exclusive purpose of the Foundation is the direct promotion of science at scientific universities and research institutions, primarily in Germany, with particular emphasis on young scientists.Funding Organization Evonik FoundationThe purposes of the Foundation are the promotion of science and research in the field of natural sciences; environmental protection and sustainable development; cultural purposes, including art, the cultivation and preservation of cultural values as well as the promotion of the preservation of historical monuments; popular and vocational training as well as education.Funding Organization Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate ProtectionThe BMWK subsidises small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as various universities and research institutions within the framework of various funding programmes.Funding Organization Bavarian Research FoundationThe purpose of the Foundation is to promote, by additional means or otherwise, university and non-university research projects that are important for the scientific and technological development of Bavaria or for the Bavarian economy or for the protection of the natural foundations of life in accordance with Art. 131 and 141 of the Constitution, as well as the rapid utilisation of scientific findings by industry, in addition to state research funding.Funding Organization Funding Organization Rainer Markgraf FoundationThe purpose of the Foundation is to promote science and research and to improve Upper Franconia and Upper Palatinate as a business location. Another equally important objective of the Foundation is vocational training and further education and the creation of modern training facilities. The purpose of the Foundation includes the school sector as well as the practical vocational sector and the university sector. The purposes are realised through the promotion of vocational training and further education programmes; the awarding of scholarships and grants; the financing of training centres and research institutions; the promotion of infrastructural projects to improve the regional economic framework conditions.