Any inclusion of health data or other “special categories of personal data” in the CV is voluntary. Information that you do not wish to be disclosed should not be included in the CV (or in the proposal or covering letter).If you would like to submit information about special personal circumstances to the DFG Head Office only and wish to request that only the periods of academic inactivity or restrictions be taken into account in the review and evaluation without details of the reasons being shared with DFG reviewers and committee members, please use DFG form 73.01(interner Link) (Consent A). Please submit the completed form as part of the proposal submission via elan under “Other Attachments”; file name: 73.01_confidential_<last_name>). In such exceptional cases, the contact is as follows, also to arrange a telephone appointment if necessary: chancengleichheit@dfg.de(externer Link).Without a description of your personal circumstances (and the resulting impact on your academic career) in your CV, however, it is not always possible to give appropriate consideration to these circumstances in the review and comparative evaluation, or it is only possible to a limited extent. The DFG endeavours to make this happen nonetheless.If your proposal and CV are uploaded by someone other than yourself, please submit the completed DFG form 73.01(interner Link) separately via the elan portal as soon as you have received confirmation of receipt of the proposal including the reference number.If you are a participant or project leader of a coordinated programme (RTG, CRC, EXC) and would like to provide the relevant information to the Head Office, please contact the spokesperson of your consortium and ask to be notified when the proposal submission has been completed and what the corresponding reference number is. Then complete and return DFG form 73.01(interner Link) to the DFG Head Office by e-mail or post, quoting the reference number. , Do I have to use the DFG CV template (DFG form 53.200) to present myself and my career? Yes, the CV template is mandatory for all applicants submitting proposals under all DFG programmes from 1 March 2023., As a result, the DFG is changing the application forms and introducing a uniform and mandatory template for CVs. In the new RDM blog post, we take a closer look at the innovations and the reasons behind them..