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EU GREEN: 3 min Fame Competition 2025/26

PhD students from all EU GREEN Alliance universities are invited to participate in the “3-Minute Fame” competition. Share your research through a three-minute video, showcasing your work to an international audience.

How to participate:

Create a three-minute video explaining your research in way easy to understand in English.
Submit your entry through the official platform.
Only for OVGU applicants: You can get professional support from the Media Center
HANDOUT - Terms & Conditions
Deadline: February 2, 2026
Submission Platform
The top 3 winners of each university will present their work at the 2026 EU GREEN PhD Summer School in Wrocław / Poland in April 2026

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Deutscher Studienpreis 2026

KoerberStiftung

German Study Prize 2026

Are you convinced that your dissertation will make a difference to society? Are you able to clearly explain the social significance of your dissertation project in a short text? Did you complete your dissertation with magna or summa cum laude in 2025?

You are invited to apply for the German Thesis Award 2026. Knowledge of the German language is necessary in order to apply. The application essay as well as a presentation in front of the jury are in German. Additionally, participants need either to have German citizenship or to have earned their PhD from a German university to be eligible.

Please find all the information on the conditions of the study prize online in German
Apply by March 1, 2026

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DAAD scholarship program “EFR Future Scholarships - Green Hydrogen”

Green Hydrogen - Call for Applications and FAQ - DAAD

German and international Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs are supported.

	PhD candidates	PostDocs
Outgoing	Research stay 1-12 months	Research stay 1-12 months

	Internship 2-6 months
Incoming	Research stay 1-18 months	Research stay 1-18 months

	Internship 2-3 months

In particular, we would like to draw your attention to the internship funding, as we have received several job offers for internships abroad. You can find the vacancies here: ERA Fellowships – Green Hydrogen Internship Opportunities - DAAD

Interested students can apply directly to the DAAD for the scholarship and one of the advertised internships. Alternatively, Master's and PhD students can also organize an internship themselves and apply for a scholarship only.

Current application deadlines:

PhD and postdoc applications can be submitted at any time, but four months before the planned stay.

The program is aimed at German and international doctoral students and postdocs in all disciplines related to green hydrogen for research and internships in Germany and worldwide.

Interested parties can apply directly in our scholarship database:

Our team will be happy to answer any questions you may have: gh2@daad.de

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Mobility Programm France

The Procope Mobility programme specifically supports the mobility to France of young researchers affiliated with a laboratory or research institute located in Germany. These mobility grants will allow them to carry out a research stay in a laboratory or research institute located in France.

All areas of research are eligible. The mobility grant will finance a stay of one, two or three months, which will start no earlier than 18 May 2026 and no later than 31 December 2026.

Candidates will be asked to indicate in the application form the desired length of stay and to argue this choice with regard to the objectives and the work programme.

The number of three-month scholarships is limited. Its obtaining will depend on the number of applications and the classification of the files by the selection committee.