The collaboration is based on an agreement signed by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 2018, establishing joint French-German projects as a standard offer within the DFG’s research grants programme.
For the 2020 edition of this call, DFG will act as the lead agency, i.e., joint (full) proposals describing the bilateral projects as a whole have to be submitted firstly to DFG, which will be responsible for processing them and conducting the review process. The ANR will require a copy of the documents to be submitted on its dedicated web portal. Please note that there is no pre-proposal stage.
Submission of (full) proposals for joint bilateral research projects – with exception of space technology, nuclear research and defense – is possible electronically via DFG’s elan portal starting 13 November 2019 and at latest on 9 January 2020 (until midnight). In order to submit a proposal, all applicants on the German side need an active account on elan with up-to-date contact information. If this is not the case, please set up or update your account as early as possible, at latest on 6 January 2020.
The corresponding submission to ANR, using the same acronym and identical proposal documents, is required before 10 January 2020 at 1 p.m. on ANR’s submission website, where administrative and financial data relevant for the ANR have to be entered.
Proposals in the social sciences and humanities must be submitted in the dedicated ANR-DFG call in social sciences and humanities (with separate deadlines).
