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How to Write DFG Grant Applications (English)
A Practical Introduction

05/22/2025 9:00 AM  - 5:00 PM 
Attendance:
Presence event 
Event location:
  • MB 4100
Organizer:
  • Stabsstelle Forschungs- und Graduiertenförderung
Target groups:
  • Doctoral candidates
  • Postdoktorand:innen/Postdocs

You're keen to apply for a DFG grant, but are wondering how to put together a suitable proposal? Then this full-day workshop is for you, organised and conducted by two members of staff from the university's Research Support team. We invite you to join us on this journey through the application process and develop your own proposal.

Key points from the agenda:

  • What does a grant proposal entail? -- structure, style, formalities
  • Your proposal: working on your own idea with group feedback
  • DFG review process -- structure and steps

Teaching formats: presentations, group discussions, group work, individual work, peer advising

Workshop & writing language: English

Equipment: Bring your own laptop and -- if you already have any -- notes on your intended research grant proposal.

Schedule: 9am to 4.30pm with lunch break

Target group: postdocs with a research idea for a DFG grant. Doctoral students nearing the end of their PhD phase can also participate.
The workshop can be counted into the EMF programme as an elective ("Wahlmodul") -- please get in touch with us before regarding the details.

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Conducting the workshop will be

  • Dr. rer. nat. Nina Felgen (M.Sc.) has been with the Research Support team since March 2021, specialising in national funding including the Hessian LOEWE initiative. She has advised on numerous DFG project grant proposals as well as several large coordinated projects. Before going into funding advising, she was a doctoral researcher at the Institut für Nanostrukturtechnologie und Analytik (INA), receiving her doctorate in Engineering Physics at U Kassel, and, as manager of the scientific center CINSaT, coordinated successfully the grant application for the continuation of the center.
  • Dr. phil. Anna Bauer (M.A., MPA, Dipl. DaF) joined U Kassel's Research Support in October 2022 and advises on national and university-internal funding as well as EU funding. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher in two DFG projects at U Marburg ("Hethitische mythologische Texte" and "eDiAna") and was a doctoral researcher at U Göttingen and Marburg, where she received her PhD in Historical Linguistics. Her position as DAAD Lecturer for New Zealand at the University of Auckland entailed funding advising for researchers and students regarding support from the DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

More information about this event

Event location:

MB 4100
Hauptverwaltungsgebäude 4100
Mönchebergstr. 19
34125 Kassel
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Organizer:

Stabsstelle Forschungs- und Graduiertenförderung

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Available until: 05/21/2025
Registration possible from 01.11.2024, 00:00:00 until 21.05.2025, 23:59:00