Tasks Performed by the DFG’s Russia/CIS Office

Since the office’s opening, the DFG has been pursuing the following tasks and goals in Russia:

• Developing and supporting bilateral cooperation
  This task involves providing advice and mentoring services for researchers, as well as for research (funding) organisations in Germany and the CIS countries.
• Maintaining and strengthening institutional collaboration with Russian partner organisations
  Consists of setting up and expanding co-financed cooperation projects in accordance with the DFG’s funding spectrum and review standards. This is done through joint funding agreements and announcements.
• Early career support
  Involves providing support in establishing contact and cooperative relationships, in particular within the framework of the International Research Training Groups. This task also involves including early career researchers in events and addressing them through specially targeted conferences and symposia.
• Preparing for and implementing measures to promote cooperation
  Involves initiating and organising bilateral seminars and roundtable discussions and mentoring delegation visits to Russia and Germany, as well as supporting Russia’s integration into the European Research Area by arranging and participating in conferences on the synergies between bilateral German-Russian and multilateral EU research funding.
• Intensifying cooperation with research centres in Russia and the other CIS countries
  Involves performing public relations work and establishing contacts with research centres outside Moscow and Russia. These activities focus on those centres whose international contacts do not currently fulfil the high scientific potential often achieved in a variety of areas.
• Analysing and evaluating relevant developments in scientific policy in Russia and the CIS countries
  Involves sending regular reports to the DFG Head Office and to external publications.

The systematic expansion of institutional collaboration with Russian funding organisations facilitates the joint funding of collaborations in all areas of basic research. Information on proposal submissions and framework agreements on the co-financing of research projects with the following partner organisations is available at:

• Interner LinkInternational Partners and Agreements >> Russian Federation

In addition to supporting the initiation of German-Russian collaboration projects, the DFG therefore funds around 300 projects with Russian involvement. It does so increasingly within the framework of larger coordinated programmes, like International Research Training Groups, Priority Programmes and Collaborative Research Centres. The GEPRIS Internet database contains information on research projects currently funded by the DFG, as well as on the people and institutions involved.Externer Link

• Externer LinkGepris – Information System for DFG-funded Projects

• Interner LinkCurrent Projects and Programmes

• Externer LinkResearch Explorer - The German research directory

Address

• DFG Office Russia/CIS
  1. Kazačij Pereulok 5/2
  119017 Moscow, Russia
  Tel. +7 495 9562690
  Fax +7 495 9562706
  russia@dfg.de
  Interner Linkhttp://www.dfg.de/russia/
  Interner Linkhttp://russia.dfg.de/

Correspondence Address in Germany

• DFG Office Russia/CIS
  с/о Spring
  MOW/MOW/16380
  POSTFACH 920109
  51151 Cologne, Germany

Contact Persons

• Interner LinkDr. Wilma Rethage

Geographic Responsibilities (Countries and Regions): Eastern Europe, countries of the former Soviet Union

• Interner LinkDr. Jörn Achterberg