Purpose and legal basis of the processing
The collected data will be processed for the purpose of assessment, statistics and evaluation only. The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6, para. 1, letter b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and § 26, paragraph 1 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).
Applicants to the Minerva Fellowship Programme will be asked to provide personal data. In the online application form, all fields marked with * are mandatory. All fields that are not marked are optional. Applicants can provide this information on a voluntary basis and will be asked separately to consent to the data processing according to Art. 6, para. 1 letter a) of the GDPR (Attachment 1). Should you wish to withdraw your consent to process any optional data, please contact minerva-team@gv.mpg.de.
Use of data and duration of storage
The evaluation process of the Minerva Fellowship Programme is conducted by the Minerva Stiftung. Applications will be evaluated and reviewed by the members of the Minerva Fellowship Committee and in single cases additionally by external reviewers inside and outside the European Union.
The legal basis of the transfers outside the European Union and European Economic Area is Art. 49 para. 1 letter b) of the GDPR. Access to the collected data will be granted for the purpose of evaluation via state-of-the-art methods of encoding. Personal data will be stored for a period of 10 years. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.
Your rights
You have the right to receive information about your personal data stored by us at any time. Likewise, you have the right of correction, blocking or deletion of your personal data.To do this, please contact minerva-team@gv.mpg.de. You can also request the deletion of the data, as long as no legal archiving obligation stands against this request. As far as such an obligation exists, we lock your data on request. You can make changes or revoke your consent by notifying us with effect for the future.
You also have the right to submit an objection to the supervisory authority. For the Minerva Stiftung Gesellschaft für die Forschung mbH, this is the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht), Postfach 606, 91511 Ansbach. |