Funding Instrument 3

Project Boost for 'Lateral Entrants'

Scientists with excellent project proposal

With this instrument, scientists with excellent project proposals who have not had their own funding in the last five years are supported in generating preliminary data for DFG applications.

Application & Deadlines

For who?

Individuals who wish to resume their research due to their life history (family/health/partner).
Research partners of new appointees
Also changing employees of new appointees

Requirements

Required Qualification

Completed Doctorate

Award Criteria

The scope of the preliminary data and the applicant's publication record should be such that an extramural external funding application can be submitted if the project is successful.
Applicant can present an employment contract for 4 years.

Grants

Personnel funds
Please justify the planned type of personnel in terms of the project: 100% non-scientific employee or 65% doctoral position (lump sum according to the current DFG personnel funding rates) or SHK/WHK (no postdoc, remuneration and scope of employment according to the SHK/WHK guidelines of the University of Bonn).

Core Facility Services
max. 3,000 € per year (exclusively CF established at UCB)

Materials
Max. 15,000 € per year (incl. animal costs and computer software, hardware support and technical equipment are excluded).

Travel and publication costs
Application for funding to cover travel and publication costs is excluded.

Duration of Funding

12 months

Continuation Funding

Combination Possibilities and Follow-up Funding

Procedure

Step 1

Project Application

Contacting the Coordination office
Consultation by the Team Internal Funding
Getting Access to the BONFOR eApplication system
Submission of the project application via the BONFOR eApplication system.

Step 2

Appraisal & Decision

One internal and one external expert opinion, commission consultation

Step 3

Project Execution

12 months

Step 4

Evaluation & Project Presentation

Final report to the date of account closure
Documentation of external follow-up financing and publications achieved
Presentation of the research project at the BONFOR symposium

Application & Deadlines

Submission of the project application in English including mandatory and additional documents via the BONFOR eApplication system.

BONFOR eApplication

Checklist

Project Application

Please use the following template to describe your project proposal (in English language):

Project proposal 2024 (EN)

Please use the following document for your project proposal:

Project proposal (EN)

Required Documents

The following documents are required for your application:

Mandatory Documents

Project Application in english language (s. template)
One page of summary of the research project
Curriculum vitae and scientific background of both applicants (with exam grades)
Doctoral Certificate
List of publications of the applicant (proof of first own publications according to the above-mentioned award criteria)
Declaration of current employment contract duration¹ and job commitment from the clinic/institute management (text template).
Signed guidelines for the use of BONFOR funds
Declaration Bonfor-applicant

¹ If the requested BONFOR funding period is incompletely covered by the employment contract: job extension request from the clinic/institute management for the remaining period, if necessary subject to BONFOR funding approval: see UKB intranet: Kfm.Direktion - Geschäftsbereich 1 - Recruiting - Antrag auf Durchführung einer Personalmaßnahme (German only).

When Applying for Doctoral Student Funding

Commitment of the institution's management for at least a 3-year contract period for the doctoral position
Supervision agreement of a university teacher for the doctoral student

Additional Documents

Cooperation agreement(s)
Votum of the Ethics commission
Animal Testing Permit
Further Documentation

Commitment Statements

Declaration of commitment
Proof
Confirmation that the applicant will be given adequate time to complete the project and that a DFG application will be supported.
Workplace Agreement
for the requested BONFOR funding period
Employment Contract
This contract must be in place from the application deadline at the latest and last at least 3 years beyond the BONFOR funding period. If an extension of the employment contract is required, it can be applied for at GB1 subject to the BONFOR funding approval.

(Please clarify details with the BONFOR office in due time and prior to BONFOR application submission).

Deadlines

Grant applications may be submitted at any time, but must be submitted via the BONFOR eApplication system no later than the application deadline for the respective meeting date.

Application Deadlines