ERS funded projects are initiated through two approaches. In the open calls, researchers can submit proposals for funding for projects from all RWTH research areas. These projects should aim at identifying and developing new interdisciplinary fields of research.

The topic-specific calls are for funding projects in fields of research which serve to further develop strategically important research focuses at RWTH. As a result, profiile areas of the university that have already been established are further defined and expanded. The Planning and Allocation Committee, PAC for short, is involved in the selection of topic-specific calls. Topics for topic-specific calls can be proposed to ERS at any time.

Calls are published at least eight weeks before the submission deadline in an email to all RWTH professors and on the ERS website.

Funding from Seed Fund

Seed funding helps researchers pursue new ideas in an interdisciplinary team. The objective is to enable initial publications on the topic and the acquisition of external funding. Projects run for an average of six to twelve months. For ERS projects carried out in collaboration with strategic partners, for example within JARA, partners are expected to provide matching funds.

Calls are generally published every year. Proposals are submitted via the ERS portal. All proposals that fulfill the formal requirements go through a defined selection process. At the end of the process the ERS selection committee composes a list of nominees to be confirmed by the Rector's Office.

237 projects have been funded thus far with a total volume of 9.1 million euros.

Funding from Prep Fund

ERS Prep funds aim to enable researchers to overcome existing hurdles or limitations such as scientific challenges or technical difficulties for achieving mid- to long-term strategic research goals. Prep Funds can vary in size and duration according to the needs of the specific project. Prep Funds are awarded competitively following periodic calls. The criteria are (i) identification of a gap in an area of high strategic importance, (ii) definition of project goals to close this gap, (iii) description of tangible deliverables.

FAQ Project Funding

Approved Seed Fund Projects 2020

Seed Fund – RWTH Start Up

StUpPD365-20 – Magnetic colloids for reconfigurable ferromagnetic materials

Applicant

Dr. Andrea Scotti
Institute of Physical-Chemistry (IPC)

Professor in Charge of the Research Group

Professor Walter Richtering
Institute of Physical-Chemistry (IPC)

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FAQ Project Funding

Approved Seed Fund Projects 2020

Seed Fund – RWTH Start Up

StUpPD365-20 – Magnetic colloids for reconfigurable ferromagnetic materials

StUpPD383-20 – Lens Theory in Assessment Centers

StUpPD363-20 – ProtoBiome; In-depth functional analysis of the proteolytic enzymes within the mammalian gut

StUpPD371-20 – Evaluation of Chemical Toxicity on Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells by Online Monitoring of the Respiration Activity

StUpPD361-20 – Systematische Entwicklung konsistenzsichernder Digitaler Zwillinge

StUpPD370-20 – SEALASTINS: Surgical elastin-like sealants

StUpPD373-20 – Development of Pavement Surface Materials with Sensing-Capabilities for Application in Intelligent Transportation Systems

StUpPD377-20 – LiTronic - Lithium-Ion Cells with integrated Electronic

StUpPD380-20 – Identification and characterization of components of the mTORC signaling pathway in Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes

StUpPD384-20 – Explaining deep neural network based text classifiers

StUpPD385-20 – Towards thermal conductance measurements as a probe for topological states in two-dimensional quantum systems

StUpPD372-20 – The Impact of Predictability on Language Switching

StUpPD362-20 – Assigning sense to the long antisense RNAs of the barley powdery mildew pathogen

StUpJP052-20 – Geschaltete Kaskadenreaktionen mittels Carbentransferreaktionen

Seed Fund – Open Seed Fund 2020

OPSF549 – Estimating accessibility in social networks under uncertainty

OPSF550 – Universal behavior under flow of soft biological and synthetic colloids

OPSF551 – Investigating the consequences of nuclear deformation during neuronal migration for epigenetic and transcriptional remodeling using microfluidics

OPSF553 – Neural processing of auditory looming in virtual acoustic environments

OPSF554 – Prozessentwicklung zur Herstellung von Fasermatten aus szintillierenden lichtleitenden Fasern für einen hochpräzisen Spurdetektor (SciFi Tracker)

OPSF555 – Entwicklung künstlicher Tumormodelle zur quantitativen Analyse des Pharmaka-Targetings mittels magnetischer Nanopartikel

OPSF557 – Development and Testing of a High Temperature Superconducting Magnet for Space Applications

OPSF560 – Entwicklung von Methoden zur Lebenszyklusanalyse leistungselektronischer Komponenten

OPSF563 – Two photon imaging strategies for investigation of cortical connectivity and plasticity in human cortical networks

OPSF570 – The Automatic Retrieval Account (ARA): Making Learning Better by Testing

OPSF573 – Organic Liquid Time Projection Chamber

OPSF580 – Casein microparticles for sustained drug delivery in regenerative materials

OPSF581 – G-quadruplex enabled Two-dimensional Neuromorphic Bioelectronics

OPSF585 – "Pathomics" - Novel Approach to Unbiased Automated Quantitative Analysis in Digital Pathology

OPSF587 – CEASELESS: Chunk Learning and the Development of Speaking and Listening Fluency: Integrating Experimental and Computational Approaches

OPSF589 – Rainwater Living Lab Aachen - Wasser in der Stadt gemeinsam denken

OPSF593 – Predicting Elementary Plastic Events in a Zachariasen glass

OPSF596 – Additive Fertigung und Optimierung einer Mikrodurchflusszelle zur elektrochemi-schen Korrosionsprüfung

OPSF598 – Signers Mask

Seed Fund- Biological Transformation 2020

BioTrans001 – Biological Transformation of Technical Systems utilizing Antifragility Management

BioTrans004 – MicroEnrich: Selective Enrichment of Environmental Microplastics by Designed Biadhesives

BioTrans005 – Tailor-made recombinant elastin-like peptides as biomimetic coatings to improve integration of hernia meshes

BioTrans010 – »ExoPure« Transformation from manual exosome harvesting to single-step automated purification

BioTrans011 – Biologische Transformation an der RWTH Aachen University - Befähigung von Integratoren/Multiplikatoren als Basis für die zukünftige Konvergenz und Forschungszusammenarbeit

BioTrans012 – Processing casein micelles into bio-fibers under flow and electric fields

BioTrans013 – Peptide evolution platform for biologization of two-dimensional material interfaces (Pep2D)

Approved Seed Fund Projects 2019

Seed Fund – Neuro-Inspired Computing

neuroIC001 – NeuroModelingTalk (NMT) – Approaching the complexity barrier in neuroscientific modeling

neuroIC002 – Recurrence and stochasticity for neuro-inspired computation

neuroIC003 – Variability of Neural Graph Embeddings

neuroIC005 – From Data to Treasure Maps in Materials Science: A Case Study for Data Driven Hypothesis Generation and Evaluation

neuroIC006 – Silicon Synapse

neuroIC007 – Towards Increasing the Connetivity in Artificial Neuronal Networks

Open Seed Fund

OPSF496 – Translational Tumor Medicine: From chemical hits to new potential clinical candidates and their bioactivities

OPSF497 – Groundwater treatment through nitrate reduction in two-chamber microbial fuel cells

OPSF500 – Peeking inside the black box of day-to-day challenges in Interdisciplinary Collaborations (PIC)

OPSF503 – Mapping intergroup violence: Behavioral motivations and brain activation in intergroup conflict

OPSF505 – Actuating hydrogel to mechanically direct stem cell fate

OPSF506 – Multiskalen-Modellierung der Fluid-Struktur-Interaktion in umformenden Fertigungsverfahren

OPSF507 – Psychoakustik und subjektive Beurteilung drehzahlvariabler, hydraulischer Antriebe

OPSF510 – Characterization of short-range ordering in high entropy alloys