With its call for proposals for the 2025 Else Kröner Excellence Grants, the EKFS wishes to help medical faculties and universities in Germany to recruit leading international scientists working in the field of medicine in the USA. The funding is intended for various purposes – a 3 million EUR grant could be requested to establish a professorship that becomes tenured after six years, for example. Other models are also possible and welcome. The main requirement is simply that the funding will contribute decisively to attracting researchers. The selection procedure involves several steps. Interested medical faculties and universities are able to submit an informal draft proposal to the EKFS by June 15, 2025.
Eligibility requirements:
- Concrete plans – and, later on in the selection procedure, also a formal commitment – from the host institution to employ the US-based scientist long term
- Outstanding facilities at the host institution for the candidate’s research area (e.g., a relevant Excellence Cluster or Collaborative Research Center)
- Financing concept, where relevant also detailing any additional financing from the host institution and outlining the research possibilities
- Internationally recognized achievements of the scientist in the field of medicine (e.g., awarding of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, an ERC Advanced Grant, or involvement in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Program)
- Documented willingness of the scientist to relocate, along with a statement on how relocation would benefit their research
Each medical faculty/university can submit one proposal per round.
