Köln Fortune
New Köln Fortune statutes
We are pleased to announce the new Köln Fortune statutes. With this revision, we aim to make the funding conditions more transparent, fair, and tailored to your needs in order to provide the best possible support for your diverse research projects at every stage of your scientific career.
The Köln Fortune Program is an instrument for the comprehensive personal and career development of academic staff at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne. Funding is project-related and for a limited period of time.
Köln Fortune Equal Opportunities Program (KF ChanGe) also pursues the goal of counteracting structural disadvantages of scientists.
One component of Köln Fortune is the Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP), which supports physicians in their academic careers through "protected research time".
The research funding program provides support in the following areas:
| Target group | Funding period | Qualification/requirements | Funding for scientific staff (P), cunsumables (S), Equipment (I) | Remarks | |
| 1a | Start-Up Funding Physicians/academic staff | Max. 12 months
| Doctorate; at least one project-related original publication; applicant must not be financed by third-party funds tied to a specific project | P: Funding for staff (including own position) for 12 months S: up to 15.000 €/a I: Possible in individual cases, with cost estimate
| Preparation of third-party funding application |
Returnee Scholarship Physicians/academic staff | Max. 12 months | Doctorate; at least one project-related original publication; stay abroad in a renowned international research laboratory; confirmation of employment after funding phase | Transfer of methods to Cologne; preparation of third-party funding application | ||
| 1b | Research funding for students Students of the Faculty, Master's students of other degree programs | Max. 12 months or 6 months, respectively | Good intermediate grade (2.5 and better); at least one sabbatical semester | P: Current scholarship rates of the DFG S: not possible I: not possible | Additional costs for Felasa B course |
| 1c | Research Stay at an external Institute/Laboratory Physicians/academic staff, students, Master's students | Max. 6 months | P: Current scholarship rates of the DFG
| Confirmation of the host laboratory required | |
| 1d | Travel allowance KF-funded physicians/academic staff, students, Master's students in other degree programs | Not applicable | Active congress presentation (poster, lecture) of results from KF project | S: According to proof of costs | Once per funded project |
| 1f | Support for highly qualified research projects Physicians/academic staff; W1/W2 professors | Max. 6 months | Existing or prospective competitive acquisition of third-party funding (usually DFG) | P: Funding for academic staff S: up to 7.500 € I: Possible in individual cases, with cost estimate | Preparation of a new third-party funding application |
| 1e | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Female Habilitation Candidates Female physicians/academic staff | Max. 12 months | Within a maximum of two years, achievement of a publication record sufficient for habilitation | P: Temporary position for principal investigator (confirmation of head of department is necessary) | (Very) good prognosis by habilitation committee |
| 1g | Personnel support during pregnancy, maternity leave & parental leave Physicians/academic staff | Up to 6 months | Doctorate; during pregnancy in the event of a project-related employment ban, durcing maternity leave and parental leave | P: Assumption of personnel costs for qualified employees or "helping hands" if financing is not possible from the third-party funding provider | To continue externally third-party funded research projects during the downtime |
1h Module A | Junior Clinician Scientist (Junior CCSP) Physicians in the first two years of specialist training | 12 months | Doctorate; at least one project-related original publication, own contribution to publication has to be presented | P: 50% "protected research time" (confirmation of head of department is necessary) S: up to 7.500 €/a I: Possible in individual cases, with cost estimate | Preparation of a third-party funding application or CCSP application (Module B) |
Rotation Positions Physicians, at any time Please note the application deadlines for the rotation positions.
| 12 months | Doctorate; project-related publication(s), promising project, preferably for research stays outside your own department or abroad | P: 100% "protected research time" (confirmation of head of department is necessary) S: none I: none | Flexible module | |
| Module B | CCSP Physicians from approx. the 2nd - 3rd year of specialist training
| 36 months | Doctorate; topic-related publication(s), project should demonstrate development prospects Career track and binding curriculum | P: 50% "protected research time" (confirmation of head of department is necessary) S: up to 15.000 €/a I: Possible in individual cases, with cost estimate | Interim evaluation after 18 months, obligation to participate in "binding curriculum" |
| Module C | Advanced CCSP Scientifically active physicians shortly before completing their specialist training or are already a specialist with a list of publications ready for habilitation (or already habilitated) | 36 months | Doctorate; internationally visible research profile (publications and third-party funding acquired); external research stay advantageous | P: 50% "protected research time" (confirmation of head of department is necessary) S: up to 15.000 €/a I: Possible in individual cases, with cost estimate | Interim evaluation after 18 months, participation in curriculum, "letter of understanding" |
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| Köln Fortune Equal Opportunities Program (KF ChanGE) | |||||
| Cologne Clinician Scientist Program (CCSP) | |||||
