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.
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: Carl Zeiss Foundation Fund
Carl Zeiss Foundation 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 Breakthroughs
CZS Breakthroughs: Resource Efficiency – Energy Systems of the Future
Short description
The ‘CZS Breakthroughs: Resource Efficiency – Energy Systems of the Future’ requirement specification focuses on application-oriented basic research on future issues for the energy revolution. Topics include energy efficiency, smart grids and storage technologies.
Programme: CZS Prototypes
CZS Prototypes: Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Field of Resource Efficiency
Short description
The call for proposals aims to promote the transfer of scientific findings in the form of validated components in the laboratory environment all the way up to a usable prototype. Applications in the field of resource and energy efficiency are eligible for funding.
Programme: CZS Transfer
CZS Transfer: Resource Efficiency – Energy Systems of the Future
Short description
The ‘CZS Transfer: Resource Efficiency – Energy Systems of the Future’ proposal is dedicated to application-oriented basic research on future issues related to the energy revolution. Topics include energy efficiency, smart grids or storage technologies.
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.
