The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme awards prizes to exceptional scientists and academics for their outstanding achievements in the field of research.

The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, named after the physicist and former president of the DFG, is a distinction for young researchers and provides additional incentive for further excellent achievements in their research work.

The Communicator Award is a personal award for scientists and academics who have communicated their research findings to the public with exceptional success.

The Albert Maucher Prize in Geoscience is awarded to young researchers in recognition of the outstanding research findings they have produced using DFG funds.

The Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize, donated by the marine geologist and former president of the DFG and his wife, serves to promote science, research and understanding between Germany and Japan.

The Ursula M. Händel Prize recognises scientists who have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research.

The Copernicus Award is conferred every two years to two researchers, one in Germany and one in Poland, for outstanding achievements in German-Polish scientific cooperation, in particular for promoting young researchers. It is awarded jointly by the DFG and the Foundation for Polish Science.

The von Kaven Awards are granted annually to mathematicians in recognition of their outstanding achievements.

The Bernd Rendel Prize is awarded annually by the DFG to young qualified geoscientists (geologists, mineralogists, geophysicists, oceanographers, geodesists) who do not yet hold a doctorate.

Digital television has taken off! Videos and television content are becoming increasingly popular on the Internet. This offers new ways and opportunities to present complex subjects simply and graphically.

Making it possible to experience top-level research in Germany using multimedia is the aim of the new internet video portal on the Excellence Initiative. The Excellence Initiative promotes outstanding research at German universities. Its objective: world-class science. We invite you to learn more about the initiative’s projects.

Funding initiatives are measures taken by the DFG to promote specific research activities in individual areas of research. The programme's objective is to offer specific activities aimed at capacity building or addressing new scientific challenges, thereby supporting the relevant disciplines in their research endeavours.

The DFG's project groups bring together an interdisciplinary group of experts from the DFG's head office to discuss and propose new research projects.