Mercator Programme

Visiting Professorships at German Universities

The DFG offers the Mercator Programme to enable Germany's research universities to invite highly qualified scientists and academics working abroad to complete a DFG-funded stay at their institutes. The visit should focus on joint cooperative projects by the guest and host. By assuming teaching duties, visiting professors will contribute to providing a clear international dimension to the research-oriented training of young researchers in the host departments.

To ensure that the special knowledge and skills of international researchers participating in this programme of excellence become accessible to a wider audience in Germany, the DFG provides travel allowances for the visiting professor to visit other interested research institutes in Germany.

The list of planned stays of Mercator Visiting Professors in Germany enables researchers, institutes, departments and faculties in Germany to contact visiting professors and hosts and to invite the Mercator Visiting Professors to come to their institutions. The DFG's head office will also provide the appropriate contacts.

Further Information

The following links will lead you to the DFG's German website where the information is available in German only.

• List of Mercator Visiting Professors
• FAQs
• Contact
• Proposal Guidelines and Forms