Graduate Institute

PhD Scholarship Announcement 2026

The university, the Graduate Institute (GI), the Institute of Technology, Resource and Energy-efficient Engineering (TREE), the research group Prof. Dr. Mike Althaus, the Department of Computer Science as well as the Dr. Reinold Hagen Stiftung are announcing several scholarships for academic staff, teaching staff for special tasks and graduates of the H-BRS. Applicants stand out due to an excellent degree, which generally entitles them to study for a doctorate, are welcome to apply.

The main aim of a doctoral scholarship is to support PhDs financially in such a way that they can devote themselves primarily to their doctoral project and complete their doctoral project within the generally envisaged standard doctoral period of 36 months. 

Prerequisites of granting a H-BRS doctoral scholarship are the performance of research work at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and the supervision of the doctoral work by a professor of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg as well as the conditions set in the guidelines on granting a doctoral scholarship. A selection committee will review the scholarship applications primarily based on scientific aspects.

Further details about the application are provided in the guideline on granting a doctoral scholarship and the specification of scholarships. The communication of the application process takes place via the course “Bewerbung um ein Promotionsstipendium der H-BRS” of the learning platform LEA
LEA Course.

Please upload your complete application in the LEA-course until 6. July 2026 at 9:00 am. Incomplete application documents may be excluded from the procedure. 

Note: The module “How to Develop a Research Proposal” will take place on May 13, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in room A102, Module Research Proposal. 

Email: gi@h-brs.de