Funds university-based Collaborative Research Centres for up to 12 years to enable innovative, complex, multidisciplinary research. Supports staff, scientific instrumentation, travel, international cooperation, early career researchers, equality measures, and structural development. Encourages cooperation with non-university institutions and promotes equality and science communication.
Eligible applicants are universities and equivalent institutions in Germany entitled to confer doctorates. Other research institutions contributing essentially to the programme may be integrated.
