NRW funding – Junior groups
NRW funding – Junior groups

NRW returnee programme
Funding from the state of NRW
Contact for the applications of the UDE
NRW returnee programme
NRW-Programme Digital Socitey
Research colleges NRW
Promotion of the return of highly qualified young researchers from abroad to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Junior research group headed by Prof. Dr. Kai S. Exner (since 2021)
Faculty of Chemistry
- Junior research group headed by Dr. Christopher J. Stein (since 2021)
Faculty of Physics
- Junior research group headed by Prof. Dr. Paul Marx (since 2017)
Faculty of Social Sciences
- Junior research group headed by Prof. Dr. Alexander J. Probst (since 2017)
Faculty of Chemistry
- Junior research group headed by Prof. Dr. Björn Sothmann (since 2016)
Faculty of Physics
Former junior research groups unter the leadership of:
Promoting young talent in NRW's Digital Society programme
The Ministry of Culture and Science is supporting the processes of social change brought about by digitisation in North Rhine-Westphalia by funding junior research groups and a cross-location research training group under the "Digital Society" funding line.
Young Researcher Groups in the Programme:
- Dr. German Neubaum, Department of Computer and Applied Cognitive Science, Faculty of Engineering
Digital Citizenship in Network Technologies (DICINT) - The emergence of opinion-based homogeneity in online networks and its impact on social participation processes
- Dr. Isabelle Borucki, Faculty of Social Sciences
Digital Party Research (DIPART). Parties in digital change
Interdisciplinary Research Training Group:
Within the framework of the funding line, the Ministry supports a cross-locational, interdisciplinary research training group. Twelve doctoral theses in six tandems over a maximum period of 3.5 years will be funded, which contribute to securing and strengthening democracy in the context of the digitisation of society.
The UDE is involved in two doctoral tandems:
- "Ethics and Responsibility in the Digital Society: Data Practices in Administration and Journalism"
Prof. Christoph Bieber, Faculty of Social Sciences (together with the HHU Düsseldorf)
- "Incivility in online political communication: types, causes, effects and interventions".
Prof. Nicole Krämer, Department of Computer and Applied Cognitive Science, Faculty of Engineering (together with the University of Bonn)
NRW PhD programmes
The NRW PhD programme launched in 2014 by the Ministry of Culture and Science (MKW) for the state of NRW funds a structured graduate training programme dealing with the subjects involved in the research strategy for the state of “Forschungskollegs NRW” [Research Colleges NRW].
- FUTURE WATER – Global Water Research in the Ruhr metropolitan area (since 2014)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Torsten C. Schmidt, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen
Consortium members:- University of Duisburg-Essen
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- University of Applied Sciences Ruhr West, Bochum
- EBZ Business School, Bochum
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology, Duisburg
- Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen
- Energy-efficiency within the district – supplying, converting, activating with intelligence (since 2014)
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Christa Reicher, Faculty of Spatial Planning, RWTH Aachen
Consortium members:- RWTH Aachen
- TU Dortmund
- University of Duisburg-Essen
- Ruhr Universität Bochum
- Bochum University of Applied Sciences
- Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal
UDE participants: