Hardship Fund

The Cluster wants to establish the best conditions to conduct research. To alleviate the mental load in times of hardship, we support the researchers experiencing financial hardship, e.g. due to health-related or family reasons or who need flexible working conditions.

What is funded?

Hardship support for researchers who experience financial hardship, e.g. due to health-related or family reasons or who need flexible working conditions

Which type of funding is granted?

  • An extension (or a top-up) of the researcher’s current position for a maximum of three months
  • Funds for student assistants to support the applicant’s research
  • Up to 150 hours pro applicant pro year for student assistants to achieve flexible working conditions for applicants with family duties

Who can apply?
All members and affiliated members (without tenure) of the Cluster “The Politics of Inequality”.

How to apply?
Please fill out the application form below. Please note that the supporting documents to verify the hardship situation need to be submitted with the application. Also, the application must clarify that no other funding opportunities are available.

Applications are accepted at any time throughout the year. The Executive Board will review applications continuously. Funding decisions are made continuously so funds can be made available quickly.

Additional information
All questions can be directed to the Cluster’s Managing Office E-Mail address: application.inequality@uni-konstanz.de.

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The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007, it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up program, the Excellence Strategy. The Cluster “The Politics of Inequality” includes researchers from political science, sociology, economics, linguistics, psychology, law, and education studies. They study how people perceive these inequalities, how they lead to collective mobilization, and how political actors respond to them.

This Call is funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) under the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments – EXC-2035/1 – 390681379 - and is in accordance with the Bylaws for the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality: Perceptions, Participation and Policies” of the University of Konstanz.

For more information on the Cluster, please visit http://inequality.uni.kn.