Consortia, joint grants & fellowships

Partner with us

Whether you are assembling an EU consortium, need a German partner for a joint grant, or want to come to Bonn on your own fellowship: we work on privacy-preserving, trustworthy and affordable AI for medical imaging, and we enjoy building partnerships across borders.

Join an EU consortium

Horizon Europe and European partnerships.

Apply jointly with a German partner

DFG, including the Middle East Collaboration.

Start with a Bonn seed grant

University of Bonn funds with partner universities.

Come to Bonn as a fellow

Humboldt, MSCA, Emmy Noether, DAAD and joint PhDs.

Join an EU consortium

We join Horizon Europe consortia and European partnerships (ERA4Health, EP PerMed, THCS, IHI, Global Health EDCTP3) as partner or work-package lead for federated learning, medical foundation models and trustworthy-AI evaluation.

Partner with us in Horizon Europe → EU partner sheet (PDF)

Apply jointly with a German partner

Are you a researcher outside Germany looking for a German partner? For these programmes we apply from Bonn as the German principal investigator, together with you.

DFG Research Grants with international partners ↗
Open any time		Joint research projects with partners in Europe through the Weave and D-A-CH lead-agency procedures. Each side is funded by its own agency. The DFG has similar joint calls with agencies worldwide.
DFG Middle East Collaboration ↗
Open any time		Trilateral projects of German and Israeli researchers with a partner from the Palestinian Territories, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon or Syria. We apply as the German partner, and the grant includes funds that are passed on to the partners in the region.
DFG Initiation of International Collaboration ↗
Open any time		A low-threshold way to start: exploratory workshops, research trips and guest visits that prepare a joint proposal.

Our DFG and BMFTR projects

All BMFTR projects →All projects →

Start with a University of Bonn seed grant

The University of Bonn funds joint projects with its strategic partner universities and visits by international colleagues. These grants are a good way to start a collaboration before a larger joint proposal. We apply from Bonn together with you.

Bonn–Melbourne Research Excellence Fund ↗
Annual call, July–September		Joint research projects with the University of Melbourne, up to €20,000 in matching funds. Our cancer-imaging project is funded through it.
Collaborative Research Grants (GUSI network) ↗
Annual call, July–October		Joint research projects with Emory University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem or the University of St Andrews, about €20,000–26,000 in matching funds per project.
Emory University ↗Hebrew University of Jerusalem ↗University of St Andrews ↗
Return Grants for International Visiting Scholars ↗
Open any time, reviewed quarterly		Brings former international guests of the University of Bonn back for a visit, with activities for early-career researchers.

Projects funded by the University of Bonn

All projects →

Come to Bonn as a fellow

Do you want to bring your own fellowship to Bonn? We host postdocs and visiting researchers and help you write the application: research plan, host letter and the description of the lab and its infrastructure.

Humboldt Research Fellowship ↗
Next call opens 15 November 2026		Postdocs and experienced researchers from any country and any field, 6 to 24 months. You apply with a host in Germany. Three calls a year, each closing once it reaches 800 applications.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships ↗
One call per year		European Postdoctoral Fellowships of the EU, 12 to 24 months at a host in Europe, for researchers of any nationality who move to Germany.
DFG Emmy Noether Programme ↗
Open any time		For outstanding early-career researchers who want to lead their own junior research group in Germany, hosted at the University Hospital Bonn.
DAAD scholarships ↗
Deadlines vary by programme		Doctoral and research scholarships for international students and early-career researchers. Search the database for your country and career stage. (DAAD research stays for senior academics were discontinued in 2025.)
DAAD AInet (Postdoc-NeT-AI) ↗
Twice a year		A virtual networking week for AI postdocs and advanced doctoral candidates from outside Germany, then a visit to German labs and short research stays of 1 to 3 months. We have hosted three AInet fellows.
China Scholarship Council (CSC) ↗
Annual call in China		Full or joint (visiting) PhD in Bonn for candidates from China. You apply through your university in China with our letter of acceptance.
Fulbright Germany ↗
Annual call in the USA		Study and research stays in Germany for US graduates, doctoral candidates and researchers.
DAAD RISE Germany ↗
Applications until 30 November 2026		Summer research internships in Germany for undergraduates from the USA, Canada, the UK and Ireland, supervised by our PhD students.
AGYA Research Mobility Program ↗
For AGYA members and alumni		Research stays of 1 to 3 months in Germany or the Arab world for members and alumni of the Arab-German Young Academy and their PhD students.
Joint PhD with Melbourne or St Andrews ↗
Annual call, July–September		Funded joint doctoral projects, co-supervised in Bonn and at the partner university. The co-supervisors apply together, then recruit the PhD candidate.
Melbourne–Bonn ↗St Andrews–Bonn ↗

Fellows we have hosted

  • Tareq AbdelAlim · DAAD AInet Fellow (2026) — Erasmus MC, Rotterdam
  • Jiajun Zeng · CSC Scholar (PhD) (since 2025) — Shenzhen University, China
  • Pranav Kirti · Fulbright Scholar (2025) — USA
  • Ceren Tozlu · Bonn International Fellowship (2025–2026) — Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
  • Henda Mahmoudi · AGYA Research Mobility Fellow (2024) — ICBA, United Arab Emirates
  • Nada El Darra · AGYA Research Mobility Fellow (2023) — Beirut Arab University, Lebanon
  • Qiongkai Xu · DAAD AInet Fellow (2023) — University of Melbourne
  • Syed Zulqarnain Gilani · DAAD AInet Fellow (2023) — Edith Cowan University, Perth
  • Djamel Djenouri · AGYA Research Mobility Fellow (2022) — University of the West of England
  • Tariq Bdair · DAAD Scholar (PhD) (2018–2023) — German Jordanian University, Jordan
  • Claire Kaiser · DAAD RISE Fellow (2015) — University of Rochester, USA

What you get as a fellow

  • Supervision and mentoring by the PI, with regular one-to-one meetings
  • A place in the team, in our lab at BonnJour and at the Venusberg-Campus
  • GPU compute and the federated-learning infrastructure we run with partner hospitals
  • Clinical collaborators in radiology, pathology and ophthalmology at the University Hospital Bonn
  • Our international network for visits, schools and joint papers

To get started, apply with the form on PhD, postdoc, visiting and internship positions with your own funding. Tell us which programme you are aiming for and when you plan to start. That page also lists more programmes, filtered by country and career stage.

Apply with your own funding →

We know these programmes from both sides: Shadi Albarqouni reviews and evaluates proposals for the European Commission (Horizon Europe), DFG, BMFTR, DAAD, and SNSF. Programme status checked November 2026; please confirm deadlines on the funders' pages.

Have an idea? Get in touch and we will find the right programme together.