What support and funding opportunities does the DFG offer to researchers in early career phases? Where can you find important background information and helpful hints? 

This website describes your options in each phase of your early research career and offers advice for preparing your first DFG proposal.

Video Clips

Who are the DFG-funded researchers, what is their research about and what do they say about the funding they receive? Find out in our portraying films:

In our explanatory videos we show who can apply for funding in the Walter Benjamin Programme, what the funding conditions are, and what helps when preparing a proposal. The third movie shows the DFG funding proposals: the route to a final decision.

Guidance to DFG funding opportunities for postdocs

Ten Principles for Attractive Research Careers

The DFG has published ten "Principles of Effective Career Support in Academia" that define good support structures and conditions for researchers in early career phases in Germany.

• Principles of Effective Career Support

Publications

• Infobrief "Staying in Research. Research funding and career paths: an update (1/2023)"
• Survey "Doctoral programme lengths and doctoral degrees in DFG-funded consortia (2021)"

Contact

If you have any questions on the DFG‘s research career support, please send us an e-mail: