Publication Grants

Who can apply for the Publication Grant?

PhD candidates and researchers who have not yet reached a senior position are eligible to apply for an AFI publication grant. Applications may be submitted throughout the entire year. Multiple applications per person for different publications are possible.

What is the funding amount?

It is possible to apply for grants amounting to up to € 1,000. Applications are approved based on a cost estimate but only actual expenses are reimbursed.

What are the conditions to be granted a subsidy?

• The applicant is a first author or corresponding author and employed at a public state university or public medical centre in Germany or a German institution that belongs to the EMBL, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft, the Leibniz Gemeinschaft or the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
• The article has significant relevance to research on Alzheimer's disease or Alzheimer’s disease related dementia. Since 2025 AFI only funds original research articles and no reviews or comments.
• The selected journal publishes all articles immediately after publication with open access (True Open Access journal). Open access options for individual articles in journals requiring sub­scription cannot be funded.
• The journal fulfils the scientific quality criteria applicable to the respective subject and is peer-reviewed.
• Authors who publish results from externally funded projects have to check if the publication costs can be covered by third-party funds (e.g. DFG publication cost flat rate or support from the university library) and to exhaust these, if available.
• Latest 2 months after the open access publication, the applicant has to submit the published paper and an invoice including proof of payment.

Please include a sentence (acknowledgement) in the publication in which you state: "We acknowledge support from Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V. for Open Access Publishing".

How to apply?

The following documents are to be submitted:

• A short application letter on the university's / institution's stationary incl. a short written con­firmation that other funding sources have already been exhausted
• Submitted manuscript (the article has to be submitted to the journal at the time of application, but not yet accepted)
• Layman's summary of the article in German (300-400 words)
• Proof of publication costs
• A list of other sponsors if present, including the respective sums
• PhD students submit an endorsement from their supervisor
• Applicant’s CV

Please check AFI’s Publication Grant Guidelines for details.