Projektträger im Deutschen Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfart e.V. is a service body providing support to several Federal Ministries in research funding and policy implementation. Its principal areas of work include education research, health and environmental research, funding programmes in the humanities, information technology, multimedia and microelectronics, work environmental research as well as promoting gender equality in the sciences.

PT-DLR is an equal opportunity employer with a total staff of 503, 32 of which work in the department for Environmental Research and Technology (PT-UF). In 2003 PT-DLR provided 638 million euros to research institutions to realize 4334 individual research projects.

The quality of the work of the PT-DLR is continuously monitored and certified according to ISO 9002 standards.

Biodiversity and related research
The department PT-UF is responsible for Global Change Research of BMBF. As part of this topic in 2003 a yearly budget of about 15 millions euros was used to fund biodiversity research projects within 6 different programmes (BIOLOG, BioTeam, Mata Atlântica, GBIF, SHIFT, B&A) (see: www.biolog-online.info).

PT-DLR in BiodiveERsA
PT-DLR will support the proposed project with own resources. Currently 50% of the personnel expenses are billed as overhead. Thus, the 20% upper limit imposed by EU funding requires coverage of the remaining overhead by own resources, which include office personnel, administrative support, infrastructure, a department for personnel, technical service, public relations and quality control.