Scholars, artists, and cultural professionals who are at risk and must leave their country, or who have already fled and are currently residing in Germany or Europe, may contact the Office for Grants and Collaborations at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) regarding external funding opportunities. With our offer we address people from Ukraine as well as people from other non-European countries. For all these projects, it is necessary to find a professor at the university who has the appropriate expertise for your project and who will support you.

A requirement for collaboration at the UdK Berlin and for potential funding is that your work aligns with the themes, disciplines, research areas, or artistic focuses of the Berlin University of the Arts. Please research in advance to identify suitable contacts, degree programs, or potential mentors/professors at the UdK Berlin who share an overlap with your field of expertise, using personal contacts, professional networks, or the UdK Berlin websites:

To find a professor who is suitable for you as a mentor or supervisor, you can either look through the list of all professors from the UdK Berlin's list of persons.

The websites of the faculties and the Central Institute for Continuing Education and Transfer list the various institutes and degree programs at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) along with their faculty members:

• College of Fine Arts
• College of Architecture, Media and Design
• College of Music
• College of Performing Arts
• Berlin Career College

specifically for scholars at risk:

• DAAD, Funding for doctoral candidates from Ukraine
• DAAD, Hilde Domin Programme for students and doctoral candidates
• Einstein Foundation, Einstein Guest Researchers (Academic freedom), applications at any time for "Immediate Support"
• DFG, Walter Benjamin Programme for postdocs, no deadline
• Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung: Philip-Schwartz-Initiative for postdocs

specifically for artists and cultural actors at risk:

• Martin Roth Initiative: funding enables cultural and civil society organisations to temporarily host artists and cultural actors
• Artists at Risk

In addition, the ARTIST TRAINING programme at the UdK Berlin offers professional artists at risk a further training programme for qualification, counselling and networking of professional artists in exile. It supports orientation in the local cultural sector and teaches self-management skills as a freelancer. 

we require

• a curriculum vitae,
• information on the current life situation
• a detailed exposé for the artistic project or cultural project that could be realised at the UdK Berlin.

Here you will find information on the procedure for enrolment as a doctoral candidate and on doctoral studies if applicabale at the various faculties.

Contact person for the counselling of scholars, artists and cultural workers at risk:

Dr. Sabine Schöbel
sabine.schoebel_ @intra.udk-berlin.de / Department for Funding and Cooperation