The service spectrum with regard to national research funding encompasses the following:

• Information about national tenders in research funding, particularly the German Research Foundation and the Ministry for Education and Research
  
• Supervision of projects to establish key research areas(collaborative research centers, research groups, etc.)
  
• Supervision of projects in the State Excellence Initiative Hamburg
  
• Information about the Federal Excellence Initiative
  
• Endowed professorships(Heisenberg, Lichtenberg, Humboldt)
  
• General advising and support in the acquisition of external funding

Important national funding institutions:

• Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation: AvH
• German Research Foundation: DFG
• Federal Ministry of Education and Research: BMBF
• Volkswagen Foundation
• Fritz Thyssen Foundation

You can find all foundations at:

• Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft as well as at
  
• Association of German Foundations
  

FIT - for Science provides a wealth of current information about the tenders of funding institutions.

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