The following FAQs were compiled to assist prospective applicants in submitting proposals to the DFG and to make the DFG’s procedures transparent. They provide information on various DFG funding programmes and serve to complement existing guidelines and instructions.

ELAN (DFG User Account)

Elan – Information for applicants, reviewers and committee members(interner Link)

Questions about Proposal Preparation and Proposal Submission

• General questions about preparing a proposal(interner Link)
• General questions on eligibility(interner Link)
• FAQ on CVs(interner Link)
• Information relating to special personal circumstances(interner Link)
• FAQ on Lists of publications(interner Link)

Questions and information from certain scientific disciplines

• Humanities and Social Sciences(interner Link)
• Life Sciences(interner Link)
• Natural Sciences(interner Link)

Review, Assessment and Decision

• Questions about the Review Process(interner Link)
• FAQs on the subject classification system, subject area allocation and interdisciplinarity(interner Link)
• DFG Committees(interner Link)

After the Decision/Current projects

• Questions about current projects(interner Link)
• Changes and delays in the course of a project(interner Link)
• Information relating to special personal circumstances(interner Link)
• Questions about CO2 Compensation(interner Link)
• End of project and final report(interner Link)

Individual Grants Programmes

• Walter Benjamin-Programme(interner Link)
• Research Fellowships(interner Link)
• Emmy Noether Programme(interner Link)
• Heisenberg Programme(interner Link)
• Temporary Positions for Principal Investigators(interner Link)
• Knowledge transfer projects(interner Link)
• Trilateral transfer projects(interner Link)
• Transfer FH/HAW PLUS(interner Link)

Coordinated Programmes

• Research Training Groups(interner Link)
• Collaborative Research Centres(interner Link)
• Research Units Funding Line(interner Link)

Special Funding Initiatives 

National Research Data Infrastructure(interner Link)

Research Infrastructure

• Open Access(interner Link)
• Open Access Publication Funding(interner Link)
• Infrastructures for Scholarly Publishing(Download)
• Information Infrastructures for Research Data(Download)
• Funding Programme “Coordinating Roles and Responsibilities in Information Infrastructures” (VIGO)(interner Link)

International

• International(interner Link)
• Weave Lead Agency Procedure(interner Link)
• Funding Opportunity for Dutch-German Basic Research Projects (NWO – DFG)(interner Link)
• ANR-DFG French-German Collaboration for Joint Projects in Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences(interner Link)

Principles and Framework Conditions

• Implementation of the Code "Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice"(externer Link)
• Handling of Research Data(interner Link)
• Publishing(interner Link)
• Subject Area Structure and Interdisciplinarity(interner Link)