Last updated: May 2022

A LaTeX template for a basic DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation) grant proposal.

Attention: you need pdflatex and biber (not bibtex) to compile the document.

Code autocompletion: If you are using TeXstudio, there exists an autocomplete file (.cwl) for the dfgproposal.cls class, which can be found here.

This template is based on the template of Martin Hölzer and based on the RTF DFG form 53_01_en 03/22, last accessed in May 2022.

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If you do not have biber installed try to install it from the package sources of your system. There is also a conda install that you can try:

conda create -n biber -c malramsay biber 
conda activate biber

Most of customization (citation style, etc.) can be done by changes in the dfgproposal.cls.

To add references to different parts of the proposal, you can define categories:

\DeclareBibliographyCategory{reviewed}
\addtocategory{reviewed}{Hoelzer:16}

that can be later used in the sections:

\printbibliography[category=reviewed, heading=none]

To change the style of your bibliography you have to change the following code snippet in the dfgproposal.cls file:

\usepackage[backend = biber,
    style = numeric, %numeric, alphabetic
    firstinits = true,
    natbib = true,
    hyperref = true,
    maxbibnames = 11, % number of authors shown
    sorting=none, % remove this to have things sorted, e.g. use style=alphabetic
    ]{biblatex}

The environment funds can be used to automatically sum up all costs specified like this:

\begin{funds}[funding for staff]

\positionmul{Research associate, TV-L 13, 36 months}{5375}{36}
\positionmul{Student assistant, TV-L 13, 12 months}{450}{12}

\end{funds}

Furthermore, please be aware that since May 2020 the proposal is split into a more research focused part (sections 1-4, max. 15 pages) and all the supplementary information (starting section 5, max. 10 pages). Please also always check if there are any changes to the DFG template!