Registration

Please apply here for the Fedor Stepun Fellowships.


After submitting the form, you will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt by e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact stepun@rs.rub.de.


Important note: You are not supposed to reach out to your desired host professor. Only indicate the respective name and data. Our office will reach out. Please carefully examine whether your subject area is truly suitable for the selected professor. 


The character numbers given in the form include characters and spaces. The fields are not automatically limited. Please ensure that you adhere to the specifications. An overrun will result in the formal rejection of your application.

1. Applicant information

2. (Social) Media contact

By sharing your digital information, you agree that UA Ruhr may
mention and link you in its posts.

3. Academic Career

4. Eligibility

5. Potential Host at University Alliance Ruhr

6. Personal Risk Situation

7. Postdoc Project

Elaborate on your idea for a postdoctoral project and how it fits with the research background
of your intended host. Also explain which third-party funding organization you consider and how
it aligns with state-of-the-art research.

8. Equal Opportunities

We try to take unavoidable personal restrictions in your academic work into consideration. Therefore, we would like to give you the opportunity to briefly explain your personal circumstances that lead to a special need in the implementation of your international activity in your application. We invite you to take this need into account when designing your activity and your application.

In order to raise the awareness of the researchers involved in the review process before reading your application, we ask you to briefly explain the needs arising from your unavoidable personal restriction. Keep your statements in such a way that they can be passed on to the reviewers (e.g. do not give any diagnoses).

Please enclose proof for your unavoidable personal restriction with your application. This proof will only be checked by the RUB Research School office and is not part of the documents which are handed over to the reviewers.

Please explain here in max. 1,000 characters how your stay here is affected by your restriction or why the reviewers should take it into account. An example could be: Due to the birth of my child, more time has passed since my PhD. Due to care obligations, I can only travel for 8 weeks. I have a child and need childcare for this period. I use a wheelchair and need further assistance. 

9. Information on the use of AI in this application

Please indicate whether and in what form you have used AI tools to ensure transparency and traceability in the review process in accordance with the ‘Rules of Good Scientific Practice’. As AI tools can inaccurately alter content or distort contexts, we ask that you review all AI-generated results responsibly and carefully. The use of AI tools is not an evaluation criterion in the review process and does not influence the funding decision.

In accordance with the guidelines on the use of AI tools in applications, any use of such tools for the scientific content of your application must be disclosed.

10. Declaration

I certify that the information provided in this application is accurate to the best of my knowledge. I am aware that false answers, whether intentional or the result of negligence, are illegal and that their discovery will lead to the revocation of my funding. Furthermore, I agree to inform Research School immediately of any changes or amendments. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
NOTE: The application and accompanying documents will remain with Research School. Personal data will be stored and processed in computer files only to the extent necessary for the administration of applications and in compliance with the “Datenschutzgesetz Nordrhein-
Westfalen” (Data Protection Act of North Rhine Westphalia, § 4).

I acknowledge that the CCO, doctoral reviewers and boad members will have access to my application in the context of the review process. I take responsibility for the completeness of my application, as well as accept that the accompanying data and documents will be stored
at the Research School. In case my application will be funded, I agree that the following data will be published on the Research School website: Name, location, cooperation partner, faculty, institute, project type.

The fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory fields.