Calls for Proposals - Information for Researchers | 2020
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Information for Researchers No. 107 | 22 December 2020
UN Research Roadmap for the COVID-19 Recovery -
Information for Researchers No. 105 | 18 December 2020
Launch of the Weave Lead Agency Initiative -
Information for Researchers No. 104 | 16 December 2020
African-German Scientific Exchange in the Field of Public Health -
Information for Researchers No. 103 | 16 December 2020
COVID-19 Focus Funding: SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Projects -
Information for Researchers No. 100 | 14 December 2020
Priority Programme “Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions” (SPP 2089) -
Information for Researchers No. 99 | 14 December 2020
COVID-19 Focus Funding: Measures to Prevent Infection in Social Settings and Population Groups -
Information for Researchers No. 98 | 11 December 2020
Five Countries to Collaborate on Latest Open Research Area Call -
Information for Researchers No. 93 | 8 December 2020
Expansion of Financial Support for DFG-Funded Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic -
Information for Researchers No. 91 | 4 December 2020
Priority Programme “Materials for Additive Manufacturing” (SPP 2122) -
Information for Researchers No. 89 | 1 December 2020
Taiwan-German International Research Training Groups -
Information for Researchers No. 88 | 1 December 2020
Joint Sino-German Research Projects 2021 in Chemistry, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences and Management Sciences -
Information for Researchers No. 86 | 26 November 2020
18 UK-German Collaborative Research Projects in the Arts and Humanities -
Information for Researchers No. 84 | 19 November 2020
UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities -
Information for Researchers No. 83 | 17 November 2020
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups in the Field of Artificial Intelligence Methods -
Information for Researchers No. 82 | 17 November 2020
New Measures to Promote Gender Equality in Science and Academia -
Information for Researchers No. 79 | 6 November 2020
Taiwan-German Collaboration in Research -
Information for Researchers No. 78 | 3 November 2020
Deutsch-Israelische Projektkooperation (DIP) – German-Israeli Project Cooperation -
Information for Researchers No. 77 | 30 October 2020
Priority Programme “Entangled Africa: Intra-African connections between Rainforest and Mediterranean (ca. 6,000 to 500 BP)” (SPP 2143) -
Information for Researchers No. 76 | 27 October 2020
New Open Access Funding Programme -
Information for Researchers No. 75 | 26 October 2020
Pre-Announcement: UK-German Collaborative Research Projects in the Humanities -
Information for Researchers No. 74 | 19 October 2020
New Edition of the French-German Call for Proposals in the Natural, Life and Engineering Sciences -
Information for Researchers No. 73 | 16 October 2020
BiodivERsA and Water JPI -
Information for Researchers No. 71 | 12 October 2020
Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability and Coral Reefs – A Past to Future Perspective on Current Rates of Change at Ultra-High Resolution” (SPP 2299) -
Information for Researchers No. 70 | 9 October 2020
Workshop for Early Career Investigators in Allergology -
Information for Researchers No. 66 | 5 October 2020
Priority Programme “Deconstruction and Reconstruction of the Plant Microbiota: DECRyPT” (SPP 2125) -
Information for Researchers No. 65 | 2 October 2020
Priority Programme “Engineered Artificial Minerals (EnAM) – a Geo-metallurgical Tool to Recycle Critical Elements from Waste Streams” (SPP 2315) -
Information for Researchers No. 64 | 29 September 2020
Priority Programme “INtegrated TERahErtz sySTems Enabling Novel Functionality (INTEREST)” (SPP 2314) -
Information for Researchers No. 62 | 16 September 2020
Polish-German Collaboration on Joint Projects in Physical, Life and Engineering Sciences -
Information for Researchers No. 61 | 16 September 2020
Polish-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities and Social Sciences -
Information for Researchers No. 60 | 14 September 2020
DFG-RSF Cooperation: Possibility for Joint German-Russian Project Proposals in all Fields of Science -
Information for Researchers No. 57 | 1 September 2020
Priority Programme “Much More Than Defence: the Multiple Functions and Facets of CRISPR-Cas” (SPP 2141) -
Information for Researchers No. 56 | 28 August 2020
Priority Programme “Robust Coupling of Continuum-biomechanical In Silico Models to Establish Active Biological System Models for Later Use in Clinical Applications – Co-design of Modelling, Numerics and Usability” (SPP 2311) -
Information for Researchers No. 55 | 27 August 2020
Priority Programme “Skyrmionics: Topological Spin Phenomena in Real-Space for Applications” (SPP 2137) -
Information for Researchers No. 52 | 10 August 2020
COVID-19 Focus Funding: Immunity, Host Susceptibility and Pathomechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Infection -
Information for Researchers No. 51 | 10 August 2020
COVID-19 Focus Funding in the Research Grants Programme -
Information for Researchers No. 49 | 4 August 2020
Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA): Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability -
Information for Researchers No. 48 | 22 July 2020
Priority Programme “New Concepts in Prokaryotic Virus-host Interactions – From Single Cells to Microbial Communities” (SPP 2330) -
Information for Researchers No. 47 | 22 July 2020
Priority Programme “Energy Efficient Power Electronics ‘GaNius’” (SPP 2312) -
Information for Researchers No. 45 | 16 July 2020
Priority Programme “Systems Ecology of Soils – Energy Discharge Modulated by Microbiome and Boundary Conditions (SoilSystems)” (SPP 2322) -
Information for Researchers No. 44 | 15 July 2020
Priority Programme “Atmospheric and Earth System Research with the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO)” (SPP 1294) -
Information for Researchers No. 43 | 15 July 2020
Pre-announcement of the NCN-DFG Calls for Joint Polish-German Proposals -
Information for Researchers No. 42 | 14 July 2020
Priority Programme “Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering. Knowledge Meets Data: Interpretability, Extrapolation, Reliability, Trust” (SPP 2331) -
Information for Researchers No. 40 | 13 July 2020
Priority Programme “Creation of Synergies in Tailor-made Mixtures of Heterogeneous Powders: Hetero Aggregations of Particulate Systems and Their Properties” (SPP 2289) -
Information for Researchers No. 38 | 6 July 2020
Priority Programme “META-REP: A Meta-scientific Programme to Analyse and Optimise Replicability in the Behavioural, Social, and Cognitive Sciences” (SPP 2317) -
Information for Researchers No. 37 | 3 July 2020
Priority Programme “Ferroptosis: from Molecular Basics to Clinical Applications” (SPP 2306) -
Information for Researchers No. 36 | 3 July 2020
Priority Programme “Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning” (SPP 2298) -
Information for Researchers No. 34 | 25 June 2020
NSF and DFG Opportunity for Collaborations in Advanced Manufacturing -
Information for Researchers No. 33 | 3 June 2020
German-African Cooperation Projects in Infectiology -
Information for Researchers No. 32 | 26 May 2020
Priority Programme “The Active Self” (SPP 2134) -
Information for Researchers No. 31 | 25 May 2020
DFG Emphasises Importance of Sex, Gender and Diversity to Research Projects -
Information for Researchers No. 30 | 25 May 2020
Second NFDI Conference 2020 as Webinar -
Information for Researchers No. 29 | 25 May 2020
National Research Data Infrastructure – 2020 Call for Consortia Proposals (Round Two) -
Information for Researchers No. 28 | 20 May 2020
Extra Financial Support for DFG-Funded Research During the Coronavirus Pandemic -
Information for Researchers No. 27 | 19 May 2020
NSF-DFG Lead Agency Activity in Electrosynthesis and Electrocatalysis (NSF-DFG EChem) -
Information for Researchers No. 25 | 11 May 2020
Funding Opportunities for Indo-German Fundamental Research Projects in the Life Sciences -
Information for Researchers No. 24 | 30 April 2020
Instructions for Project Proposals Restructured and Updated -
Information for Researchers No. 21 | 25 March 2020
Initiation of Collaborative Projects with Researchers from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Field of Solar Energy -
Information for Researchers No. 20 | 19 March 2020
Call for Multidisciplinary Research into Epidemics and Pandemics in Response to the Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 -
Information for Researchers No. 19 | 18 March 2020
Priority Programme “Computational Connectomics” (SPP 2041) -
Information for Researchers No. 18 | 4 March 2020
DFG Responds to Spread of Coronavirus -
Information for Researchers No. 16 | 2 March 2020
TWAS-DFG Cooperation Visits Programme -
Information for Researchers No. 12 | 4 February 2020
Joint Sino-German Research Projects 2020: Submission Deadline Extended -
Information for Researchers No. 11 | 3 February 2020
Workshop for Early Career Investigators “Agroecosystems 2020” -
Information for Researchers No. 10 | 23 January 2020
Science Africa Workshop: International Research Cooperation on Sex, Gender and Diversity Dimensions in Infectiology -
Information for Researchers No. 8 | 17 January 2020
Research Units and Centres for Advanced Studies in the Field of Artificial Intelligence -
Information for Researchers No. 5 | 10 January 2020
Priority Programme “Hybrid and Multimodal Energy Systems: System Theoretical Methods for the Transformation and Operation of Complex Networks” (SPP 1984) -
Information for Researchers No. 4 | 9 January 2020
Refugee Scientists and Academics: DFG Aims to Continue Facilitating Participation in Research Projects -
Information for Researchers No. 3 | 7 January 2020
Admission of Computing Centres to the NHR Alliance -
Information for Researchers No. 2 | 7 January 2020
GAČR-DFG Cooperation: Possibility for Joint German-Czech Research Projects -
Information for Researchers No. 1 | 6 January 2020
UK and German Researchers Join Forces to Support Research Innovation in the Arts and Humanities
Further Information
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