Call for Applications

The House of Young Talents (HYT) is offering scholarships for persons who are starting a doctorate at the University of Siegen. The programme of the HYT Young Academy includes not only monthly basic funding, but also annual material resources and an interdisciplinary programme of events.

Current call for applications for the winter semester 2024/2025:

The deadline for applications is 28 May 2024, 12:00 (noon)!

• Call for applications for doctoral researchers for the summer semester 2024 (non-committal translation of the original German document)
• Data sheet (original German document)
• Applicant’s declaration of commitment (original German document)
• Mentor’s declaration of commitment (original German document)

Please send your application for a scholarship in the form of a single PDF document only via e-mail to stipendien-hyt@uni-siegen.de.

Event notice: Since the exposé of the doctoral project to be submitted with the application has a decisive influence on the quality of the application, we would like to inform you that the workshop "Das Exposé einer Dissertation: wie es geschrieben wird und wofür es nützlich ist" (in German!), which may be of interest to applicants, will take place on 6 May 2024 as part of the HYT semester programme. You can find more detailed information about the workshop here. Registration via our registration form.

If you have any questions regarding the application procedure or the selection procedure, please refer to our FAQ. In case of further questions, you can contact our team by e-mail to stipendien-hyt@uni-siegen.de.

Guidelines for scholarships at the HYT Young Academy:

• Guidelines as decided by the rectorate on 11 April 2024
  (current; non-committal translation of the original German document; effective for calls for applications for the winter semester 2024/2025 and onwards)
• Guidelines as decided by the rectorate on 28 April 2022
  (current; non-committal translation of the original German document; effective for calls for applications for the winter semester 2022/2023 and onwards)
• Guidelines as decided by the rectorate on 20 May 2021
  (non-committal translation of the original German document; effective for calls for applications for the winter semester 2021/2022 and the summer semester 2022)