Principles of DFG Funding
The DFG serves all branches of science and the humanities by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) has identified the education and advancement of young scientists and academics as one of its priority tasks.
The DFG "promotes equality between men and women in the scientific and academic communities". (DFG Statutes § 1)
The DFG promotes excellence in science and academia and, through its funding programmes, actively encourages diversity and equal opportunities in German research.
Research projects generate good ideas with great potential for practical application. These ideas need to be discovered, developed and put to good use.
This page offers information concerning the scientific disciplines (available only in German).
The scientific review of proposals is an integral part of the DFG's funding process. The reviewers, who are selected by the Head Office on the basis of their technical expertise, evaluate the proposals according to scientific excellence, relevance and originality.
