New Edition of the French-German Call for Proposals in the Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences (ANR-DFG 2025 NLE)
The French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) are continuing their annual joint calls for French-German projects in the Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences. This is based on an agreement signed by both agencies, which was confirmed by the DFG’s Joint Committee (“Hauptausschuss”), establishing joint French-German projects as a standard offering within the DFG’s research grants programme.
For the 2025 edition of this call, the ANR will act as the lead agency, i. e. joint proposals describing the bilateral projects as a whole have to be submitted to the ANR as a first step. The ANR will be responsible for processing them and conducting the review process. The DFG will require a copy of the proposal documents to be submitted via its web portal for proposal submissions.
The ANR requests pre-registration by the French project coordinator. This only includes formal data (title, acronym, participating scientists, financial estimates, etc.) and is required no later than 15 October 2024 at 5 p.m. on the ANR’s submission website. Details can be found on the ANR’s website. No equivalent is expected on the German side.
This pre-registration is a necessary condition for submitting a full proposal. The ANR will notify the French coordinators when the submission site for full proposals opens. The DFG will update its dedicated webpage when this information becomes available.
For the preparation of the full proposals, please check carefully (linked below):
- The ANR’s generic call document
- The ANR’s annex for ANR-DFG NLE proposals
- The dedicated webpage of DFG.
Please be aware that:
- The ANR provides a general template for proposals, which also applies to this call.
- The proposals are to be written in English.
- The respective eligibility rules of ANR and DFG apply to the applicants of a joint proposal.
- Commercial partners cannot be involved in joint ANR-DFG projects.
- The duration of the projects can be up to three years.
Decisions can be expected in October 2025. Funding will start with the beginning of 2026.
Please note that proposals in the social sciences and humanities must be submitted under the specific ANR-DFG call in the social sciences and humanities (with different deadlines). This also applies to transdisciplinary projects when the proposed research approach mainly centres on these fields, and/or when the principal investigator is from the social sciences/humanities.
In the course of the 2024 edition of this call, 347 eligible submissions were under review. The final results of this call will prospectively be available as of October 2024.
Equity and Diversity
The DFG strongly welcomes proposals from researchers of all genders and sexual identities, from different ethnic, cultural, religious, ideological, or social backgrounds, from different career stages, types of universities and research institutions, and with disabilities or chronic illness.
Good Research Practice
Please note that according to a resolution of the DFG General Assembly, as of 1 August 2019, DFG funding may only be awarded to institutions that have implemented the guidelines laid down in the Code of Conduct for Safeguarding Good Research Practice in their own regulations in a legally binding manner. This means that also for international proposals, funding from the DFG can only be received if the guidelines for safeguarding good research practice (see link below) have been implemented by the German applicant´s institution. If you have any questions on this subject, please contact the Research Integrity Team at the DFG Head Office (see contact below). Further information regarding the implementation can be found on the Research Integrity website (see link below).
Ethics votes
Please note that if an ethics vote is required for the German or French part of the project, it must be submitted together with the proposal. However, in exceptional cases, an ethics vote by the responsible local German ethics committee can be submitted no later than three months after proposal submission. Otherwise, the funding organisations may stop processing the application. Please note that the submission of an ethics vote by the German ethics committee is also necessary if only the project part abroad is affected, as it is a cooperation project.
Further Information
More information on ANR-DFG 2025 NLE is available at:
The ANR’s generic call document is available at:
The ANR’s annex for ANR-DFG NLE proposals is available at:
Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice – Code of Conduct:
Information on the implementation of the Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice (Code of Conduct):
Contact of the DFG´s Research Integrity team (Good Research Practice):
Please observe the DFG's data protection notice on research funding, which can be viewed and downloaded at:
If necessary, please also forward this information to those individuals whose data will be processed by the DFG due to their involvement in your project.