In 2015, the Physics and Mathematics Division of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Physics Division of the National Science Foundation (NSF) established a joint funding initiative in the area of Gravitational Physics. This collaboration is now continued with a call for proposals for 2017.
German-American collaborations are invited to submit proposals in the areas described in the Gravitational Physics programmes (contact the programme officers for information on related areas of research). These proposals will be reviewed in competition with other proposals received in the same submission window by one of the agencies, which for the review process will serve as the lead agency. It is important to note that there are no separate funds available for these efforts; proposals must compete with all other proposals within the programme and must succeed on the strengths of their intellectual merit and broader impact. The results of the review process will be shared between the agencies to make final decisions on this basis. Support will be granted for those proposals were both DFG and NSF recommend funding.
Please note that for the part to be financed by DFG only those projects are eligible that fall within DFG’s funding responsibility and that fit into the funding scheme „Sachbeihilfe / Research Grants“. This especially excludes the aspects of construction, commissioning and operation of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory).
Applicants to be funded by the DFG are requested to fulfil the eligibility requirements of DFG Research Grants, see the corresponding guidelines of the Research Grants Programme (DFG form 50.01). This includes the duty to cooperate (“Kooperationspflicht”) within Germany for members of non-university institutions with permanent positions.
In accordance with the proposal target date of the NSF proposals should be submitted not later than 28 November 2018.
