Short description
CZS Prisma supports endowed professors of the Carl Zeiss Foundation and is offered on a permanent basis. Application forms can be digitally filled out and submitted via email until December 31, 2023.
We create an open environment for scientific breakthroughs
in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
We provide funding in these areas:
Since 2007, we have supported
5
projects and invested
5
in funding.
Become a part of it yourself
Ongoing call for application
Programme: CZS Prisma CZS Prisma
Programme: CZS Fund CZS Fund – Talents for Germany
Short description
Funding is provided for the appointment of top international researchers. Applications are accepted all year round and must be exclusively submitted via the German Scholars Organization. Universities from the three funding states are eligible to apply.
Programme: CZS Meet & Work CZS Meet & Work
Short description
The CZS Meet & Work programme is advertised on a permanent basis. A limited amount of funding is available per calendar year. If this amount is exhausted, the programme will be re-advertised at the beginning of the next year. Application forms can be filled out digitally and submitted via email.
Programme: CZS Summer School CZS Summer School
Short description
The CZS Summer School programme is offered on a permanent basis. A limited amount of funding is available per calendar year. If this amount is exhausted, the program will be advertised again at the beginning of the next year. Application forms can be filled out digitally and submitted via email.
Programme: Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award Nomination in the Humboldt Research Award Programme
Short description
Nomination and selection for the Carl Zeiss Humboldt Research Award takes place in the Humboldt Research Award Programme. Nomination via the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung is not possible. Applications can be submitted throughout the year.
Programme: CZS Transfer CZS Transfer: Resource efficiency – Sustainable material innovations
Last date: 30.03.2023
Short description
The call for proposals promotes application-oriented research in the field of resource efficiency. Interdisciplinary project teams are to research sustainable material innovations for a resource-conserving circular economy.
Programme: CZS Wildcard CZS Wildcard: Programme to encourage unconventional ideas
Short description
With this call for proposals, the Carl Zeiss Foundation is enabling interdisciplinary research groups to pursue a shared idea over a period of two years. The scientists who are involved are given maximum freedom.
Programme: CZS research boost CZS research boost: Call for application for newly appointed HAW professors
Short description
With this call for proposals, the Foundation enables newly appointed professors to carry out specific research projects during their first two years at a university of applied sciences. The funds do not have to be used exclusively for the research project.
In the global competition between top universities, funding from foundations and the business community plays a major role in determining success. For over 130 years, the Carl Zeiss Foundation has supported the University of Jena and its partners in making Jena internationally visible as a location for business and science.
The Carl Zeiss Foundation promotes research on cutting-edge topics at universities in an impressive and consistent way. This support helps these mostly interdisciplinary research groups be recognised as leaders, both nationally and internationally. It’s a very exciting task for me to contribute to their success.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the first and only endowed professorship in Germany – and one of the first in the world – to deal exclusively with the interface of AI and law. I really appreciate being able to focus entirely on these research questions in my chair – and to have a great team of young researchers doing research on similar topics.
The Carl Zeiss Foundation is a blessing for science. It provides funding precisely where usual funding instruments stop, where taking chances at the highest risk level can lead to breakthroughs at disciplinary boundaries, and always with a view to young scientists – with a great deal of freedom and in an uncomplicated, transparent fashion.
Our funding goals
We provide funding for research and teaching in the STEM fields. In this way, we continue our founder’s mission in a contemporary form, following four guiding principles.
The Foundation considers itself to be a partner for people engaged in visionary and outstanding academic work in the fields of natural science and engineering.
