University of Potsdam Gertrude Holiday Scholarship 2026

Are you studying, pursuing a doctorate, or completing your habilitation at the University of Potsdam and need financial support to complete your qualification? The Coordination Office for Equal Opportunities (KfC) would like to support you in starting your career and offers financial assistance.

The KfC provides financial support to university members, enabling them to study and conduct research without financial worries. The scholarship is primarily aimed at female students, early-career researchers, and parents returning from a career break for family reasons. The scholarship program seeks to increase the proportion of women at all levels of academic qualification.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Documents
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineNot Specified
• Study LevelPhD , Postdoctoral Fellowships
• SponsorUniversity of Potsdam
• City to studyBrandenburg
• School to studyUniversity of Potsdam
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

The maximum scholarship funding rates are per month (The amount of funds available annually depends on the budgetary and third-party funds raised for this purpose):

• Students €800
• PhD candidates €1,000
• Postdocs €1,300
• Child supplement of €160 per child

Requirements

• The program supports female doctoral candidates to compensate for family-related absences or the loss of regular funding, enabling them to successfully complete their doctorate.
• Funding is provided to individuals in the final phase of their doctoral studies to enable them to successfully complete their doctorate ( final phase funding ).

• Funding is provided to women and men who, after a family-related interruption of their academic qualification of at least 6 months, wish to continue their qualification project and aim for a timely completion.

• Support is provided to people in extreme social distress, usually in combination with multiple burdens
• Another requirement is that the recipients of the funding devote themselves entirely or predominantly to the completion of their qualification project and pursue secondary employment only to a limited extent (the limit of marginally paid employment must not be exceeded).

Application Documents

Application documents:

•  Application form
• Cover letter explaining the need for funding
• tabular CV
• possibly further funding-line-dependent documentation
  • For child supplement: copy of the birth certificate of the child/children
  • If employed: proof of gross income
  • Re-entry support: Copy of the child's/children's birth certificate or other proof of the family-related interruption
  • Completion funding / Re-entry funding: a brief, generally understandable description of the qualification project, the current status of work and a content-related and time-related objective for the completion of the qualification project or proof of planned continued funding after the Gertrud-Feiertag scholarship expires.
  • Relief funding: Proof of social hardship

Check also:
2026 Fully Funded Humboldt Research Fellowship
2026 Eutopia PhD Co-tutelle Call

Application Deadline

How To Apply

For more information, kindly visit the University of Potsdam scholarship webpage.