Applications can only be submitted via the university management. Applications can be submitted for a
- Junior Fellowship: doctoral students, post-doctoral students, research assistants and research associates
- Senior Fellowship: junior professors, habilitated academics or professors.
- Tandem fellowship: teachers together with a university didactician, a teaching/learning researcher or a teacher from another subject or from another university.
Applications are open to teachers of all disciplines at state universities as well as at all state-recognised universities in church and private sponsorship in Germany, with the exception of lecturers who do not work at a conservatoire. Several applications from one university are admissible.