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Individual Research Grants

The DFG Research Grants Programme enables qualified researchers who have completed their academic training to carry out a research project on a specifically defined topic within a limited time period. The project must be of high scientific quality and originality, carried out at an international level. Funding duration is based on individual project needs, typically several years. The first proposal may be submitted at any time, and renewal proposals should be submitted at least 6 months before approved funds are exhausted.

Rolling

Data last verified 2026-08-14 · sources & verification

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Career stage

Early Career, Mid Career, Senior

Host country

DE

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

Qualified researchers (as a rule, those holding a doctorate) from all disciplines working at German research institutions. Researchers working at institutions which serve purely commercial purposes or those who are not permitted to publish findings in a generally accessible form are not eligible to apply.

Deadline

Rolling / ongoing

Application form effort

3 form file(s) downloaded; 11 writing prompts; 35 fields/sections; page limits totaling ~20; heavy — expect a full proposal pack

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Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated itemValue in this recordSource
Funding agency DFG www.dfg.de ↗
Country / funding source DE · DFG same page as above — www.dfg.de ↗
Deadline Rolling — no fixed deadline — official page lists it as rolling/ongoing same page as above — www.dfg.de ↗
Funding amount Not stated on the official page same page as above — www.dfg.de ↗
Eligibility 3 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above same page as above — www.dfg.de ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Not captured / obstacles

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.