LaTeX DFG template

Last updated: August 2020

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.

Acknowledgements

This template is based on the template of the Measurement Engineering Group and based on the RTF DFG form 53_01_en 04/20, last accessed in August 2020.

Compilation

pdflatex
biber
pdflatex
pdflatex

or

make

Biber

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

Customization

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

Bibliography

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:

```latex
\printbibliography[category=reviewed, heading=none]

Bib Style

To change the style of your bibliography you have to change the following code snippet in the proposal.sty 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}

Sum up costs

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}

Disclaimer

I used this template for an actual proposal submission in 2019 to the DFG that was accepted and send out for review (unfortunately, not accepted in the end).

If you use this template and receive a confirmation, please let me know and I will be happy to reference your successful application here! :)

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!