Group Internal Grants
Network funds for short-term collaborations:
In order to foster interdisciplinarity and scientific independence, we provide an infrastructure for networking and exchange between the members of the two groups of early career researchers, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and also across the two groups and across the different areas of the CRC.
Doctoral researchers can profit personally and scientifically from interaction with postdocs. But postdocs can also profit from exchange with the doctoral researchers and gain initial experience in supervising PhD candidates. Postdocs can expand their scientific networks and gain visibility in the international scientific community.
We offer yearly 6 grants each in the amount of 500€ to enable collaborative research projects including doctoral and postdoctoral reseachers.
- ➞ A short project proposal (max. 2 pages) including: topic of collaboration, project description and goals, involved projects, post-docs and doctoral researchers (if involved), planned expenses.
“The MGK short-term collaboration fund was very helpful for advancing my corpus-based research. The student assistant support funded by the MGK short-term collaboration enabled me to carry out time-intensive corpus annotation and data collection tasks much more efficiently, since it allowed us to automatize data extraction. I would definitely recommend this funding opportunity to future doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.”
To get further information write an e-mail to Derya Nuhbalaoglu: Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Short-term stay abroad funds:
In order to foster international collaborations, we offer funding for short-term stays of 3 months for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of CRC in order to enable them to establish a research collaboration with colleagues at international universities or to complement their qualification. Each short-term stay should be coordinated with the principal investigators of the respective research project and the supervisor (in the case of doctoral researchers). The application should include a detailed description of the planned activities as well as confirmation from a researcher at the receiving institution. A detailed list of the required documents could be seen below.
- ➞ A letter of invitation from the the hosting university including the duration of the planned stay
- ➞ A letter of confirmation of the research stay from the supervisor of the affiliated university
- ➞ A short description/proposal of the planned research at the host institution (1-2 pages)
- ➞ A financial plan including an approximate calculation of the travel and accommodation expenses up to 5000 €.
“I had the opportunity to spend three months at the Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle at Université Paris Cité, and I am very grateful for this experience. During this time, I extended my research to French by conducting an experiment with French native speakers. I also had the chance to present my work at colloquia and conferences in Paris, which gave me helpful feedback and the opportunity to exchange ideas with other researchers. The stay also allowed me to get to know a new research environment and become part of a very welcoming group of PhD students. Overall, it was a very valuable experience, and I would definitely recommend it to other doctoral and postdoctoral researchers for the new perspectives and networking opportunities it offers.”
To get further information write an e-mail to Derya Nuhbalaoglu: Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Group External Grants
Short-term Fellowships:
In order to integrate young international researchers into the projects of this Collaborative Research Centre, we offer short-term fellowships for international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from abroad who apply with their own project ideas related to the research focus of the CRC. Every year, we will announce 3 four months fellowships.
Open Call
fellowships application dues date, 16.07.2026
SHORT-TERM FELLOWSHIPS at the Collaborative Research Center 1629 “Negation in language and beyond” (NegLaB)
- ➞ Cover letter (including contact details and information regarding motivation and CRC research domain/project for collaboration)
- ➞ Research proposal connected to the topic of negation (max. 3 pages A4, incl. references)
- ➞ CV (including information on MA degree, PhD topic, etc. and, if applicable, list of publications and conference presentations)
- ➞ Two names and contact details of referees who may be contacted by the search committee by e-mail
- ➞ Copy of the certificates of the university degrees (MA degree, PhD Degree)
- ➞ A letter of acceptance from a hosting principal investigator (PI)
“Being a short-term doctoral fellow at NegLaB was a really positive experience. The NegLaB project brings together a really active, varied and welcoming environment; there was no shortage of interesting events and talks during my time at Frankfurt. Being part of such a big CRC during 4 months was a unique and very valuable experience during my PhD. I am very grateful to their fellowship scheme for their support: my stay was a great opportunity to develop an independent project on a topic I was interested in, widen my knowledge of negation and make connections that extend beyond the fellowship. I would highly recommend it to interested PhD students!”
“During my stay I was able to continue building on my experimental and formal work on quantification. This included refining formal semantic analyses and developing future experiments. I am currently in the process of writing up some of this work for publication.”
To get further information write an e-mail to Derya Nuhbalaoglu: Nuhbalaoglu@em.uni-frankfurt.de