Calls for Proposals - Information for Researchers

This section aims to keep researchers from all disciplines up to date on current calls for proposals as well as other general information on the various DFG funding programmes.

Extended deadline for DFG calls

In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the DFG has extended the submission deadline for several of its current calls for proposals. Further deadline extensions will be introduced if necessary. Researchers can find regular updates under the information on the relevant call.

The submission deadlines have been extended for the following programmes:

Ongoing Calls for Proposals and General Information (Complete Listing)

Information for Researchers No. 74 | 19 October 2020
New Edition of the French-German Call for Proposals in the Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences
Information for Researchers No. 73 | 16 October 2020
BiodivERsA and Water JPI
Information for Researchers No. 72 | 14 October 2020
Priority Programme “Physics of Parasitism” (SPP 2332)
Information for Researchers No. 71 | 12 October 2020
Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability and Coral Reefs – A Past to Future Perspective on Current Rates of Change at Ultra-High Resolution” (SPP 2299)
Information for Researchers No. 66 | 5 October 2020
Priority Programme “Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Plant Microbiota: DECRyPT” (SPP 2125)
Information for Researchers No. 65 | 2 October 2020
Priority Programme “Engineered Artificial Minerals (EnAM) – a Geo-metallurgical Tool to Recycle Critical Elements from Waste Streams” (SPP 2315)
Information for Researchers No. 64 | 29 September 2020
Priority Programme “INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems Enabling Novel Functionality (INTEREST)” (SPP 2314)
Information for Researchers No. 62 | 16 September 2020
Polish-German Collaboration on Joint Projects in Physical, Life and Engineering Sciences
Information for Researchers No. 61 | 16 September 2020
Polish-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Information for Researchers No. 60 | 14 September 2020
DFG-RSF Cooperation: Possibility for Joint German-Russian Project Proposals in all Fields of Science
Information for Researchers No. 31 | 4 September 2020
DFG Emphasises Importance of Sex, Gender and Diversity to Research Projects
Information for Researchers No. 57 | 1 September 2020
Priority Programme “Much More Than Defence: the Multiple Functions and Facets of CRISPR-Cas” (SPP 2141)
Information for Researchers No. 56 | 28 August 2020
Priority Programme “Robust Coupling of Continuum-biomechanical In Silico Models to Establish Active Biological System Models for Later Use in Clinical Applications – Co-design of Modelling, Numerics and Usability” (SPP 2311)
Information for Researchers No. 55 | 27 August 2020
Priority Programme “Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications” (SPP 2137)
Information for Researchers No. 51 | 10 August 2020
COVID-19 Focus Funding in the Research Grants Programme
Information for Researchers No. 49 | 4 August 2020
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA): Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability
Information for Researchers No. 48 | 22 July 2020
Priority Programme “New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-host Interactions – From Single Cells to Microbial Communities” (SPP 2330)
Information for Researchers No. 47 | 22 July 2020
Priority Programme “Energy Efficient Power Electronics ‘GaNius’” (SPP 2312)
Information for Researchers No. 45 | 16 July 2020
Priority Programme “Systems Ecology of Soils – Energy Discharge Modulated by Microbiome and Boundary Conditions (SoilSystems)” (SPP 2322)
Information for Researchers No. 43 | 15 July 2020
Pre-announcement of the NCN-DFG Calls for Joint Polish-German Proposals
Information for Researchers No. 42 | 14 July 2020
Priority Programme “Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering. Knowledge Meets Data: Interpretability, Extrapolation, Reliability, Trust” (SPP 2331)
Information for Researchers No. 40 | 13 July 2020
Priority Programme “Creation of Synergies in Tailor-made Mixtures of Heterogeneous Powders: Hetero Aggregations of Particulate Systems and Their Properties” (SPP 2289)
Information for Researchers No. 38 | 6 July 2020
Priority Programme “META-REP: A Meta-scientific Programme to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioural, Social, and Cognitive Sciences” (SPP 2317)
Information for Researchers No. 37 | 3 July 2020
Priority Programme “Ferroptosis: from Molecular Basics to Clinical Applications” (SPP 2306)
Information for Researchers No. 36 | 3 July 2020
Priority Programme “Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning” (SPP 2298)
Information for Researchers No. 34 | 25 June 2020
NSF and DFG Opportunity for Collaborations in Advanced Manufacturing
Information for Researchers No. 33 | 3 June 2020
German-African Cooperation Projects in Infectiology
Information for Researchers No. 32 | 26 May 2020
Priority Programme “The Active Self” (SPP 2134)
Information for Researchers No. 28 | 20 May 2020
Extra Financial Support for DFG-Funded Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Information for Researchers No. 25 | 11 May 2020
Funding Opportunities for Indo-German Fundamental Research Projects in the Life Sciences
Information for Researchers No. 24 | 30 April 2020
Instructions for Project Proposals Restructured and Updated
Information for Researchers No. 10 | 23 January 2020
Science Africa Workshop: International Research Cooperation on Sex, Gender and Diversity Dimensions in Infectiology
Information for Researchers No. 8 | 17 January 2020
Research Units and Centres for Advanced Studies in the Field of Artificial Intelligence
Information for Researchers No. 2 | 7 January 2020
GAČR-DFG Cooperation: Possibility for Joint German-Czech Research Projects