The new research projects, which have been submitted within the first open-topic call for proposals launched jointly by German Research Foundation (DFG) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), encompass a variety of fields in the natural, life, management and engineering sciences.
The joint Sino-German research initiative aims to bring together relevant and competitive researchers from Germany and China to design and carry out jointly organised research projects. With a total number of 576 proposals submitted at both partner organisations it attracted a great deal of interest.
The next open-topic call for proposals on joint Sino-German research projects will be launched by DFG and NSFC in mid-January 2018. All applicants of a bilateral collaborative project within this call must submit their joint application to the respective national funding bodies (DFG and NSFC). All documents must be written in English. The assessment of the proposals will be based on a peer review process; it will be completed by the end of 2018. The collaborative projects selected to take part in the initiative may start at the beginning of 2019. They will receive research funding for a period of three years. It is important to note that there are no special funds available for these efforts, proposals must succeed on the strengths of their intellectual merit and teams in competition with all other proposals in the funding scheme “Sachbeihilfe/Research Grants”.
Applicants from China are kindly requested to conform to all the requirements listed in the Chinese call for proposals that will be published on the NSFC website.
