How the DFG Supports Research Careers
What support and funding opportunities does the DFG offer to researchers in early career phases? Where can you find important background information and helpful hints?
This website describes your options in each phase of your early research career and offers advice for preparing your first DFG proposal.
Guidance to DFG Funding Opportunities
- In our regular (interner Link) online and at research institutes in Germany, we present an overview of the DFG funding opportunities for postdocs, give advice on preparing a proposal and answer your questions.
- Our (interner Link) provide insights into DFG individual grants programmes and give useful hints for preparing your first proposal to the DFG.
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Academic career paths are diverse and vary between research areas. This guidance therefore offers a number of suggestions, different aspects of which may be relevant depending on your subject, career phase and individual goals. In all research areas, however, it makes sense to take a systematic approach to planning an academic career: given the limited number of permanent academic positions and professorships, excellent academic achievements alone do not guarantee a lasting academic career.
Video Clips
Who are the DFG-funded researchers, what is their research about and what do they say about the funding they receive? Find out in our portraying films:
In our explanatory videos we show who can apply for funding in the Walter Benjamin Programme, what the funding conditions are, and what helps when preparing a proposal. The third movie shows the DFG funding proposals: the route to a final decision.
Ten Principles for Attractive Research Careers
The DFG has published ten "(interner Link)" that define good support structures and conditions for researchers in early career phases in Germany.
Publications
Contact
| E-mail: | info-researchcareers@dfg.de |