The DFG ensures research integrity is maintained at various levels and in different ways:

• Enacting of the white paper “Safeguarding Good Scientific Practice” (1998) and the Code of Conduct “Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice” (2019) by the DFG General Assembly
• The requirement for receiving funding from the DFG is that HEIs and non-HEI research institutions implement the 19 guidelines of the Code on a legally binding basis.
• When submitting draft proposals or full proposals, and also as part of the DFG’s general funding guidelines as well as those that apply to the funding instruments administered by the DFG, applicants and funding recipients are already obliged to comply with the rules of good research practice; reference is made to the fact that the DFG’s Rules of Procedure for Dealing with Scientific Misconduct (VerfOwF) apply.
• In the context of its funding and committee activities, the DFG ensures compliance with the rules of good research practice by applying its regulations on avoiding the appearance of conflicts of interest/bias, for example.
• The DFG conducts its own procedures(externer Link) to investigate allegations of scientific misconduct if a case falls within its area of responsibility/authority.