The DFG funds research in all disciplines using a bottomup approach. That means any researcher with its academic
home in Germany can submit an application without any
subject restrictions. International collaborations are possible
and desired in all DFG funding programmes. DFG provides
funds for the full spectrum of funding schemes, i.e. fromfunding for the initiation of future collaborative research
projects of individuals, bilateral projects, to long term coordinated programmes in form of International Research Training Groups (IRTG) or Collaborative Research Centres (CRC).
Depending on the scheme of application, funding can beprovided under certain conditions in excess of 9 years. In
international programs, usually co-funding of local funding
bodies may be provided. In order to secure such funding theDFG Office Japan entertains intensive relations with domestic partner organization.

DFG Office Japan
German Research Foundation
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
Phone: + 81 3 3589 2507
Fax:+ 81 3 3589 2509
japan@dfg.de
www.dfg.de/japan/enEnglishFunding in cooperation with Partners in Japan
Strengthening and expanding of institutional collaboration
with Japanese partner organisations facilitates the joint promotion of cooperation in all areas of basic research.
Framework agreements on the co-funding of research projects exist with the following partners:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)► Japanese - German Graduate Externship (JGGE)International Research Training Groups (IRTG)► JSPS Bilateral Joint Seminars
The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)► Joint international Workshops under the Core Research for
Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) program and Precursory
Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) program
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)► Joint Workshops
For more information please visit the AMED, JSPS and JSThomepages.

Access via Subway
Aoyama-itchome Station, Exit 4
Oedo Line, Ginza Line, Hanzomon Line

Akasaka-mitsuke Station, Exit A
Ginza Line, Marunouchi Line

Contact in Germany
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German Research Foundation
Kennedyallee 4053175 Bonn, Germany
Tel. + 49 228 885-1
Fax + 49 228 885-2777
www.dfg.de

Photos: Bernard Languillier, Tim Wübben/DFG, DFG Office Japan; May 2016

Contact in Japan

Design: Tim Wübben/DFG

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German Research Foundation

DFG in Japan

About the DFG

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, GermanResearch Foundation) is the central self-governing
research funding organization in Germany, responsible for promoting basic research.
It serves all branches of science, engineering and humanities by funding research projects at universities and otherresearch institutions. It promotes excellence by selecting
the best research projects on a competitive basis in a transparent process and actively encourages interdisciplinary
and international cooperation. It is particularly dedicatedto the promotion of young researchers and to genderequality in science and academia.
In organizational terms, the DFG is an association under
private law. Its members are German universities, research
institutions, scientific associations and the academies ofscience.
The DFG receives primarily from German federal and state
governments an annual budget of over 2.8 billion Euros.
With its offices in Washington, New York, Moscow, New
Delhi, Tokyo and São Paulo, as well as the Sino-German
Center for Research Promotion in Beijing, the DFG has
expanded its presence in other research regions around theworld in recent years.

DFG Office Japan

Mission and Objectives

Japan has long been a strong and reliable partner for Germanscience and a priority country in the DFG’s international activities.

Information & Research Services
Informing the scientific community on funding possibilities
for bilateral cooperation.

German and Japanese researchers together challenge someof the most exciting and urgent research topics of today. Bothcountries have top-notch researchers and research facilities.
Cooperation between individuals, groups of researchers orresearch institutes in Germany and Japan creates synergies,
enables new approaches and adds value to the research performance.

Dialogue
Provide platforms for individual researchers, universities
and research institutions via lectures, workshops, meetings, panel discussions etc.

Via its Japan Office, established in 2009 in Tokyo, the DFG
holds good relations with its partners in Japan. Exchangeof information and expertise between universities, research
institutions and funding organisations helps to maintain a firmbasis for support and to further intensify German-Japanese
academic and research cooperation.
The DFG Office Japan is undertaking its tasks in close interaction with the DFG Head Office in Bonn, Germany, and its
Japanese partners. These include:

Initiating & Intensifying cooperation
Organising scientific meetings in Japan and in Germany.
Creating framework conditions that will lead to a sustainable impact on joint research projects between Germanand Japanese researchers.
Promotion of Young Researchers
Funding outstanding young researchers from Japan andGermany within projects as well as bilateral research training groups.
Institutional Collaboration
Cooperating with Japanese funding bodies to create opportunities for bilateral research.

► The Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)► The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)► The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Synergies
Creating platforms for the definition of funding policies forthe science-driven cooperation between German/Europeanand Japanese funding bodies, e.g. seminars on science
policy topics (gender equality, research integrity, research
management etc.)
Visibility
Making Japanese-German research cooperation and its
potential more visible.