Applicants for a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF) travel grant must currently pursue an experimental project in basic biomedical research aimed at elucidating basic biological phenomena of human life and acquiring new scientific knowledge.
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- for PhD and MD students as well as graduates the university entrance qualification must not have been obtained more than 11 years ago at the time of the envisaged research visit/course;
- for postdocs the university entrance qualification must not have been obtained more than 13 years ago at the time of the envisaged research visit/course.
Travel grants are awarded only for practical trainings in laboratories or courses of up to 3 months. They cannot be used for longer research stays.
We do not support
- Research stays of more than three months duration
- Attendance of conferences, symposia, and workshops without practical training (if you are a BIF PhD or MD fellow, please refer to the respective sections on What we offer PhD or What we offer MD)
- Clinical electives or practical courses during university education
- Clinical studies
- Applied research, such as diagnostic, biotechnological and pharmaceutical development (e.g. optimization and screening of therapeutically active substances), or studies on the course of diseases or the treatment of symptoms
- Botanical and prokaryotic investigations unless they are of general biological importance
- Attendance of courses organized by companies.
- The travel grants cannot be used to supplement inadequate funding from other institutions or earned incomes, to bridge temporary financial difficulties, or to complete investigations already sponsored by other sources or institutions.
- An application form on our online portal and
- A PDF upload of the respective documents outlined on our website to be submitted via the online portal.
- six weeks but no earlier than six months prior to the planned date of departure.
