Both funders agreed to support 20 projects. This means an increase in budget, totaling over 5.5 million GBP in the UK, matched by over 8.1 million EUR for research teams in Germany. All research funded as part of this collaboration partners arts and humanities researchers based in the UK and Germany to pursue academic research of the highest quality.
Successful proposals:
- A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies (Universität Bremen, University of St Andrews)
- Comparative Legacies of Human Land Use in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Max-Planck-Institut für Geoanthropologie, University of Bournemouth)
- Connecting Late Antiquities (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, University of Exeter, University of London)
- Crafting Documents, c. 500–c. 800 CE (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung BAM/Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, University of Oxford)
- Cross-Modal Perspectives on Grammaticalization: Aspect Markers in Creoles and Sign Languages (Universität Leipzig, University of Central Lancashire)
- Cultural Dynamics: Museums and Democracy in Motion (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Newcastle University)
- Divergent Discourses: Processes of Narrative Construction in Tibet, 1955–62 (Universität Leipzig, SOAS University of London, Trinity College Dublin)
- Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art: How Robotics and A.I. Could Influence Creativity (Universität Konstanz, Goldsmiths College)
- Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design (Universität Stuttgart, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University of Brighton, Loughborough University, Royal College of Art)
- Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism, 1800–1914 (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, University of Bristol)
- Good Citizens, Terrible Times: Community, Courage and Compliance in and beyond the Holocaust (Universität Bielefeld, University College London)
- Hindu-Muslim-Jewish Origin Legends in Circulation between the Malabar Coast and the Mediterranean, 1400s–1800s (Rheinische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, University of Glasgow)
- Just Futures? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cultural Climate Models (Universität zu Köln, Universität Duisburg-Essen, University of Leeds, University of Sheffield
- Rabbinic Civil Law in the Context of Ancient Legal History: A Legal Compendium to the Bavot Tractates of the Talmud Yerushalmi (Universität Hamburg, SOAS University of London)
- Reading Concordances in the 21st Century - RC21 (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Birmingham)
- Reading Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital: Literature, Technology, and Cognition in the Twenty-First Century (RWTH Aachen, Sheffield Hallam University)
- Songwriting Camps in the 21st Century - SC21 (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, University of Huddersfield, Birmingham City University)
- States of Clay: Integrated Scientific Approaches to Clay Bureaucratic Objects from Early Mesopotamia, 3700–2700 BCE (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz – Vorderasiatisches Museum, University of Reading)
- The Seven Sages of Rome: editing and reappraising a forgotten premodern classic from global and gendered perspectives (Freie Universität Berlin, University of St Andrews)
- Using people well, treating people badly: Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, University of Bristol, Lancaster University)
The current bilateral funding agreement covers a total of at least eight calls. The fifth call is open for applications until 15 February 2023.
Further Reading
- DFG (21.11.2022): Collaboration between UK and Germany Supports World-leading Research
