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DFG grant in one semester

Antragswerkstatt: Grant writing workshop

The DFG research grant is the most popular funding format for independent research. Can you also imagine submitting a grant this semester? Then register for the next two cohorts of the proposal workshop in the summer semester 2025!

Antragswerkstatt dates (via Zoom):

Postdocs 2.00-3.00 pm (Julia Lönnendonker) und professors 3.00 -4.00 pm (Sabine Hunze)

The latest by 21.04.25

Submission of concept paper

Mo 28.04.25

1st session

Mo 05.05.25

2nd session

Mi 14.05.25

Writing workshop 1 (9.00-1.00)

Mo 26.05.25

3rd session

Mo 02.06.25

Feedback Peer Review

Mo 16.06.25

4th session

Mi 25.06.25

Writing workshop 2 (9.00-1.00)

Mo 30.06.25

5th session

In one-hour input sessions, the proposal workshop provides researchers at TU Dortmund University with important knowledge about DFG grants and builds up key skills for writing successful funding proposals through practical work on their own proposals. The aim of the proposal workshop is to submit a grant proposal after one semester.
The application workshop provides assistance with typical application challenges: How do I get to the heart of my idea? How do I convincingly highlight its added value and knowledge gain? What special features do I need to bear in mind when writing a funding proposal and especially for DFG grants?  How do I write an easy-to-understand work program that is also comprehensible for non-specialist reviewers?
Over the course of a semester, participants will meet six times via Zoom and write their own proposals during two writing workshops and individually during the semester.
In each session, impulses are given for the individual work on the application, which the participants write continuously over the course of the semester.  Participants also meet in the middle of the semester for a feedback session.

New: To ensure that participants already have a concrete project idea for the grant application at the start of the workshop, we have introduced the concept as an admission requirement.  

Please register here for the proposal workshop and send us your proposal by April 21 at the latest.