Lower Saxony
Professorship

what we promote

The "Lower Saxony Professorship" addresses exceptional academics who are professionally excellent and have several years of (management) experience in the science system. They are expected to have the capacity to shape the profile and structure of their university location and impact the research region at large.

With the "Lower Saxony Professorship" funding program, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK) and the Volkswagen Foundation support Lower Saxony's universities in approaching and attracting leading academics directly.

Funding line 1 of the "Lower Saxony Professorship" " addresses exceptional academics who are professionally excellent and have several years of (management) experience in the science system. They are expected to have the capacity to shape the profile and structure of their university location and impact the research region at large. In view of the high requirements, the number of positive funding decisions is limited to three per year.

one program - three funding lines

The "Lower Saxony Professorship" is one of three funding lines of the program "Lower Saxony Professorships", which are intended to attract and retain outstanding academics to Lower Saxony within the framework of individual funding:

• "Lower Saxony Professorship" (funding line 1): top international talent
• "Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship" (funding line 2): high-performing academics in the early career phase
• "Lower Saxony Profile Professorship" (funding line 3, advice and application via the MWK): personalities who raise the profile of Lower Saxony’s university locations