Funding will be made available for the period from 2025 to presumably 2027 to promote the resilience of data infrastructures and to secure data sets and research results from repositories abroad that are particularly important for German research and which are at risk of no longer being available for research purposes, either now or in the future, and to make them available to the scientific community. To this end, the initiative supports a broad range of measures demonstrably contributing to the preservation of scientific data and research results. This may include the acquisition of storage capacity, the provision of personnel resources for the indexing, curation or disciplinary aggregation of data, legal assessment processes, and the integration of secured data sets into cross-regional or European structures. Funding may also be provided for the development of frameworks and technologies that enable the inclusion of relevant repositories or infrastructures in cross-regional or European networks or cloud environments.

Proposals for funding in 2025 must be submitted by 10 November 2025 at the latest. Proposals for funding in the following years can be submitted at any time.

Further information

• Guidelines: Funding initiative to secure endangered data repositories(Download)
• Proposal Preparation Instructions(Download)