Applicants may be female post-docs, private lecturers or junior professors without a permanent contract who are conducting research at the University of Bamberg. Applications are accepted from both individuals and groups of up to three early-career researchers.

SPOT offers a platform for advanced early-career researchers. This scholarship supports the planning and organization of an innovative conference that creates good publicity for the researchers' respective research disciplines. In particular, female junior researchers without permanent employment and female junior researchers with small children (for whom driving to a conference requires s high organizational effort) should be given the opportunity to distinguish themselves within their discipline and to receive important input on their research interests.