"Funding Atlas 2024": University of Erfurt achieves its best result

The “Funding Atlas” is the most comprehensive set of figures on the public funding of research in Germany and has been published every three years since 1997 by the DFG as the largest research funding organisation and central institution for the self-administration of science in Germany. The reporting period of the latest edition covers the years 2020 to 2022.

The “Funding Atlas” also records third-party funds by subject group and allows them to be put in relation to the number of professors. In this way, larger and smaller universities can be compared very well, taking into account their staffing levels and subject profiles. In the ranking of these "personnel-related third-party funds per professor in the humanities and social sciences", the University of Erfurt achieved its best result to date. Approximately €170,000 were raised per professor in the reporting period. This means that the University of Erfurt was able to double its third-party funding compared to last time. Of the more than 200 universities across Germany that submitted applications in the humanities and social sciences, the University of Erfurt achieved its best position to date in this ranking, coming in 15th place. In the personnel-related recording of their third-party funding successes at the DFG, the professors at the University of Erfurt are thus also the leaders in the humanities and social sciences in Thuringia for the first time.

Professor André Brodocz, Vice President for Research and Academic Careers at the University of Erfurt, is delighted: "These results not only demonstrate the efforts of the university as a whole, but above all the great success of our academics in third-party funded research."