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 organisations, 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 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. 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.
The ANR will be responsible for processing the proposals 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.
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.
