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The Sino-German Center for Research Promotion in Beijing

Sino-German Center (SGC)
Sino-German Center (SGC)

The DFG can look back on a long and successful collaboration with its Chinese partners. This scientific cooperation between Germany and China has increased in significance as China has advanced economically.

This is due in significant part to the efforts of the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC), which was founded jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in 2000, and which has received 50% of its funding from each of these organisations since. The SGC is unique in its status as a German-Chinese joint venture in research promotion.

Video conference between Germany and China
Video conference between Germany and China

The SGC has its own funding budget, which it uses to support specific activities relating to Chinese-German scientific cooperation. These activities include bilateral workshops, symposia, summer schools, cooperation groups and research projects, as well as exchange programmes for early career researchers. Information on the SGC and the funding opportunities it offers can be found on the SGC website.

The DFG and NSFC each provide a Director and Vice Director to the SGC. The internal directorate, which comprises four people, perform organisational leadership functions and work with their sponsoring organisations to process proposals. Furthermore, the German side of the SGC also serves as a local DFG contact person in China, assisting individual researchers as well as the various partner organisations.

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Further Information

Joint calls and new bilateral funding programs from DFG and NSFC, reports on SGC sponsored workshops and summer schools, and the latest news about Sino-German cooperation in science and research.

The SGC promotes extensive programs to support the bilateral scientific cooperation in the basic research of natural sciences, life sciences, engineering and management science. It also provides grants for excellent Chinese and German young scientists.

The SGC supports German and Chinese scientists with various services: the provision of conference rooms including technical equipment, the use of our video conference facility and guest rooms.

The Sino-German Center for Research Promotion (SGC) in Beijing is a Joint Venture of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Please visit the NSFC’s homepage to find information about funding priorities, international cooperation and new developments.

10 years of the Sino-German Center in Beijing

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Information on DFG-funded projects can be found at

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