RTG Schedule: RENEWAL of a Research Training Group
In order to apply for a second funding period of your Research Training Group (RTG), you can submit a renewal proposal including a progress report of the first funding period to the DFG. This renewal proposal including the progress report must be handed in to the DFG Head Office no later than twelve months prior to the end of the first funding period. Your individual submission deadline is stated in the written DFG notice approving the first funding period. We ask you to confer the individual process and schedule of your project with us in sufficient time.
The following time schedule only serves as a means of orientation.
| End of first funding period | |
| Review and decision II (Renewal proposal phase) | |
| Begin of consultation by the Research and Transfer Department (ongoing) | Autumn 2020 |
| Preparation of the renewal proposal (including progress report) | Winter 2020/2021 |
| Submission of the renewal proposal (including progress report) to the office of the Committee ot the Senate | 02.2021 |
| Discussion of the proposal (including progress report) in the Research Committee of the Senate | 03.2021 |
| Short presentation of the proposal in the Senat | 03.2021 |
| Submission of the renewal proposal (including progress report) to the DFG | 01.04.2021 |
| On-site review by the DFG (two days) | Summer 2021 |
| Decision by the DFG | 11.2021 |
| Written notice of the decision by the DFG | 12.2021 |
| Second funding period | 01.04.2022 – 30.09.2025 |