Coordinated Programmes
Coordinated programmes promote cooperation and structural innovation by encouraging national and international collaboration in areas of current relevance and by concentrating scientific potential at a university.
Clinical Research Units bring together researchers working at one or more locations to carry out a specific project. The programme provides the staff and material resources required for intensive medium-term cooperation. These units often contribute to establishing new research directions.
Collaborative Research Centres are long-term university research centres in which scientists and researchers work together within a cross-disciplinary research programme.
Humanities Research Centres in eastern Germany serve to promote and develop interdisciplinary, collaborative and project-oriented research in the humanities with an additional focus on cultural studies and international cooperation. Centres are established for a specific time period and are run by, or in cooperation with, one or more universities.
Priority Programmes provide a collaborative framework in which researchers conduct project work within a broad defined subject area. Participating researchers are free to choose their topics, research plan and methods. Priority Programmes are established to coordinate knowledge and resources in the field in question to produce special scientific value.
DFG Research Centres are internationally visible centres of excellence established at selected German universities to bring together outstanding expertise and resources. DFG Research Centres are an important component in a university's strategic and thematic planning and serve to sharpen a university's profile.
Research Training Groups are established by universities to promote young researchers that are funded by the DFG for a period of up to nine years. Their key emphasis is on the qualification of doctoral researchers within the framework of a focused research programme and a structured training concept.
A Research Unit is made up of a team of researchers working together on a research project which, in terms of thematic focus, duration and finances, extends beyond the funding options available under the Individual Grants Programme or Priority Programme. Research Units provide the staff and material resources required for carrying out intensive, medium-term cooperative projects (generally six years).
