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:
- Interner LinkSpecialised Information Services Programme
- Interner LinkLicences for Digital Content
- Interner LinkEmmy Noether Programme
Ongoing Calls for Proposals and General Information (Complete Listing)
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Information for Researchers No. 5 | 14 January 2021
COVID-19 Focus Funding: Impacts of the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Global South: Health Systems and Society -
Information for Researchers No. 3 | 7 January 2021
New Major Instrumentation Initiative: Spin-based Quantum Light Microscopy (SQLM) -
Information for Researchers No. 2 | 7 January 2021
New Major Instrumentation Initiative: Quantum Communication Development Environment (QCDE) -
Information for Researchers No. 1 | 5 January 2021
Priority Programme “Catalysts and Reactors under Dynamic Conditions for Energy Storage and Conversion” (SPP 2080) -
Information for Researchers No. 107 | 22 December 2020
UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery -
Information for Researchers No. 105 | 18 December 2020
Launch of the weave Lead Agency Initiative -
Information for Researchers No. 104 | 16 December 2020
African-German Scientific Exchange in the Field of Public Health -
Information for Researchers No. 100 | 14 December 2020
Priority Programme “Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions” (SPP 2089) -
Information for Researchers No. 98 | 11 December 2020
Five Countries to Collaborate on Latest Open Research Area Call -
Information for Researchers No. 93 | 8 December 2020
Expansion of Financial Support for DFG-Funded Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic -
Information for Researchers No. 91 | 4 December 2020
Priority Programme “Materials for Additive Manufacturing” (SPP 2122) -
Information for Researchers No. 89 | 1 December 2020
Taiwan-German International Research Training Groups -
Information for Researchers No. 88 | 1 December 2020
Joint Sino-German Research Projects 2021 in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences and Management Sciences -
Information for Researchers No. 86 | 26 November 2020
18 UK-German Collaborative Research Projects in the Arts and Humanities -
Information for Researchers No. 84 | 19 November 2020
UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities -
Information for Researchers No. 83 | 17 November 2020
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups in the Field of Artificial Intelligence Methods -
Information for Researchers No. 82 | 17 November 2020
New Measures to Promote Gender Equality in Science and Academia -
Information for Researchers No. 79 | 6 November 2020
Taiwan-German Collaboration in Research -
Information for Researchers No. 78 | 3 November 2020
Deutsch-Israelische Projektkooperation (DIP) – German-Israeli Project Cooperation -
Information for Researchers No. 77 | 30 October 2020
Priority Programme “Entangled Africa: Intra-African connec-tions between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6,000 to 500 BP)” (SPP 2143) -
Information for Researchers No. 76 | 27 October 2020
New Open Access Funding Programme -
Information for Researchers No. 75 | 26 October 2020
Pre-Announcement: UK-German Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities -
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. 70 | 9 October 2020
Workshop for Early Career Investigators in Allergology -
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. 57 | 1 September 2020
Priority Programme “Much More Than Defence: the Multiple Functions and Facets of CRISPR-Cas” (SPP 2141) -
Information for Researchers No. 51 | 10 August 2020
COVID-19 Focus Funding in the Research Grants Programme -
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. 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. 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
Further Information
The DFG’s announcements/calls are generally published in German. Depending on the content, this information may also be published in English, which would then be available on this page. For a complete listing of all announcements/calls, please refer to