Bayer Foundation Scientific Fellowships

Purpose of Fellowship

• Students who are enrolled outside of Germany must undertake placement within Germany.
• Students who are enrolled at a German university must undertake placements outside of Germany.
• Fellowships cannot be undertaken at commercial organizations (i.e. in industry).

Types of Fellowships

• For all fellowships, applicants should demonstrate:
  • A scientifically innovative and ambitious mindset
  • Understanding of the relevance of their work to the associated industries
  • Awareness of the potential societal implications and response to their research
• Otto Bayer Fellowships for Drug Discovery Sciences
  • For students from all fields of natural science, pharmacy, and data science with fundamental or applied studies with relevance to the pharmaceutical and consumer healthcare (over-the counter OTC) industries.
  • Students of medicine and applied medical sciences should apply for the Carl Duisberg Fellowships for Medical Sciences.
• Jeff Schell Fellowships for Agricultural Sciences
  • For students from all fields of natural science and data science with fundamental or applied studies with relevance to the Crop Science industry.
• Carl Duisberg Fellowships for Medical Sciences
  • For students in the fields of human and veterinary medicine, medical engineering, applied medical sciences and public health. Applications of data science in medicine are eligible.
• They strongly encourage:
  • Interdisciplinary and/or collaborative research projects
  • Projects that contribute to the goals of the Sustainable Development Agenda defined by the United Nations
• They encourage:
  • Projects specifically relevant for health in developing nations
  • Projects relating to the treatment of rare or orphan disease
  • Projects relating to the development of cell and gene therapies

Funding and Fellowship Duration

• The maximum funding for a single fellowship is 10,000 €.
• Bayer Foundation Fellowships can be combined with any other funding or fellowship source.
• Funding can be used for activities up to a maximum of six months in duration

Bayer Foundation fellowships can be used for

• Compulsory aspects of study programs (e.g., master’s thesis, clinical rotations etc.) to be undertaken abroad.
• Additional (non-compulsory) research stays abroad as part of master, doctoral (PhD), or medical studies.
• Research stays abroad to learn specific scientific skills and techniques relevant for current research programs.
• Internships between master and PhD studies.
• Research stays/use of specialist facilities for activities which cannot be performed at the home institution, e.g., specialist hospitals, use of cyclotrons, radio-facilities, specific microscopes and related.
• Interdisciplinary research stays are permitted and encouraged e.g., a microbiologist to study systems biology, synthetic chemist to study chemical biology.

Monthly Living Costs for European Countries

• Living costs are the expenses that arise in the course of leading a normal life, e.g. for accommodation, food.
  • Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Finland, Norway 1000 € per month
  • France, Austria, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark 1200 € per month
  • UK, Ireland, Switzerland 1400 € per month

Requirements

• Very good to excellent bachelor and/or master studies in a scientific discipline or very good to excellent medicals studies up to the current date.
• Currently studying a MSc, PhD, medical degree or equivalent.
• Students who will have completed their doctoral studies (defense of thesis) prior to the conclusion of the proposed fellowship are not eligible.

General Eligibility

• They strongly encourage applications from women, individuals from low- & middle-income countries, parents with caring responsibilities for young children, and individuals working within Germany with German as a second language.
• For Otto Bayer Fellowships for Drug Discovery Sciences: Applicants must currently be studying for an MSc or PhD (or equivalent) in natural science, pharmacy, or data science. Bachelor students and postdoctoral researchers are not eligible.
• For Jeff Schell Fellowships for Agricultural Sciences: Applicants must currently be studying for an MSc or PhD (or equivalent) in natural science or data science. Bachelor students and postdoctoral researchers are not eligible.
• For Carl Duisberg Fellowships for Medical Sciences: Applicants must be studying human or veterinary medicine or for an MSc or PhD (or equivalent) in medical engineering, applied medical sciences, public health, or data science in medicine. Bachelor students and postdoctoral researchers in medical engineering, applied medical science, public health and data science in medicine are not eligible.

For more information, visit Bayer Foundation.