Ungethüm-Aesculap Stiftung supports surgery, medical technology, and health-professions advancement, with a strong emphasis on clinically relevant research, perioperative care, and international exchange. It appears especially interested in early-career clinicians and researchers, plus surgeons and health professionals seeking advanced training, study visits, or leadership development connected to the German health system. The foundation also collaborates with medical specialty societies and university hospitals, suggesting a preference for academically grounded, practice-oriented proposals with clear patient benefit.
Offers annual or semiannual application windows with relatively modest-to-mid-sized grants and fellowships, typically ranging from about EUR 3,500 for scholarships to EUR 25,000 for international fellowships; research grants may go higher depending on the call. Funding is program-based and likely peer-reviewed, with support often tied to specific training, research visits, or projects rather than unrestricted operating grants.
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Watch the recurring application windows: research and fellowship programs commonly open March–April, with some scholarship and fellowship rounds also in September–October. Applicants should align proposals tightly to surgery, medical technology, perioperative care, or clinically relevant health-professions development, and for international fellowships make the German host university or engineering faculty connection explicit. Strong applications will show direct patient benefit, academic supervision, and a clear plan for knowledge transfer back to the home institution or health system.
Current and upcoming funding from Ungethüm-Aesculap Stiftung that your nonprofit may be able to apply for.
Who can apply: Open to hygiene professionals from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; eligible entries include theses from hygiene specialist training, innovative campaigns or projects led by hygiene professionals, and practice-oriented measures with transferable results.
Deadline: 01 September–31 October 2026
Who can apply: Physicians in surgery from Africa, Asia or Latin America; proposals that enable hospitation/research at German universities, preferably in collaboration with engineering faculties. Applicants must submit through the foundation's online portal.
Deadline: Submission windows: 01 March - 30 April and 01 September - 31 October each year.
Who can apply: Health professionals (applied to pharmacists, clinicians, nurses, nursing scientists, hospital managers, students, trainees). No funding for doctoral theses or specialist medical training; no support for conference attendance. Applicants from non-European countries must have an affiliation with a German institution.
Deadline: Typical submission windows: March - April and September - October each year.
Who can apply: Experimental research projects with direct clinical relevance to human medicine and medical technology; target group is scientific, clinically oriented early-career researchers with at least completed main studies; basic science is generally not funded.
Deadline: 01 March–30 April each year; themed call alternates annually
Who can apply: Experimental research projects with direct clinical relevance to human medicine and medical technology. Applications must be submitted via the foundation's online system. In general, applicants from non-European countries need affiliation to a German institution.
Deadline: Regular submission window: 01 March - 30 April (annual). For some calls the next window may be in September–October as announced; thematic calls are issued annually.
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