Supporting International Research Cooperation:
International Programmes
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German Research Foundation
ドイツ研究振興協会

The DFG – About Us
Our organisation

The DFG is the largest

independent research fundingorganisation in Germany.

association under German private law.
Its member organisations include German

It is anuniversities, non-university research institutions, academies ofsciences and humanities, and scientific associations.

all branches of science and the humanities byfunding research projects andIt serves

facilitating cooperation among researchers.
Over32,500 projects funded in 2017 with a budget of approx. € 3.2 billion

The DFG – About Us
Our mandate

The DFG facilitates national and international

cooperation among researchers..
It encourages the advancement and training ofearly-career researchers.
It promotes

gender equality in the German scientificand academic communities.

policy advice and fosters relations
with the private sector and with public.

It provides scientific

DFG is driven by scientific demand

DFG acts and funds bottom up

no thematic priorities (rare exceptions)

no regional prioritiesno political influence

no calls, no deadlines (rare exceptions)everything in peer review

everything in competition

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everything decided by scientists=> funding only if institution agrees on ethical standards

Funding Instruments► Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize

Excellence
Strategy► many more

InfrastructurePrizes

IndividualGrants

Funding Programmes► Research Grants► Research Units► One‘s own position► Priority Programmes► Research fellowship All open to international cooperation
International► Emmy Noether

Coordinated
Programmes

cooperation► Heisenberg► Collaborative Research C.
► DFG Research Centres► Excellence Clusters► Initiation of International Collaboration
 And to researchers
working in Germany regardless►ofGraduate
one’s Schools
nationality► Reinhart Koselleck► International Scientific Events► Mercator Fellows► Research Training Groups

DFG´s Funding Programmes for International Cooperation

The DFG fosters international cooperation in all funding programmes
especially through:

initial funding for bilateral cooperation

fellowships abroad for postdoctoral researchersjoint calls for proposals with partner organisationsInternational Research Training Groupsinternational scientific events

Mercator Fellows

International modules, such as additional travel expenses,
personnel exchanges, etc., may be applied in all DFG funding programmes.

DFG´s Funding Programmes for International Cooperation
Funding for the Initiation of International Collaboration
This program►

enables initial contacts and enhances cooperation withforeign partners►

offers a flexible framework for cooperation, allowing
different elements to be combined (preparatory andcooperative visits, bilateral events such as workshops, etc.)

DFG covers all costs of German side including hospitality cost inGermany for visitors.

In connection with Japan
This program is used as a counterpart funding to JSPS bilateral
joint seminar program.

DFG´s Funding Programmes for International Cooperation
Funding for the Initiation of International Collaboration
JSPS Joint Seminars:• Joint funding of up to 5 workshops between Japanese andGerman scientists.
• DFG covers expenses for German part, JSPS covers expenses

for Japanese part.
• JSPS announces a call every summer with a deadline inSeptember. DFG processes these collaborations within theProgramme “Initiation of International Cooperation”

How
does
the DFGPartners
support international cooperation?
DFG´sJapanese

DFG´s Japanese Partners
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)• Annual call for bilateral joint seminar• Joint research project call• Geosciences (2018)• DFG funded project can be part of the JSPS Core-to-Core Programme(Japanese Scientist + 2 other partners abroad)– no call announcement on DFG side
• via Open Research Area for the Social Sciences (ORA)• Matching of Japanese-German Graduate Externship (JGGE) and International
Research Training Groups (IRTG)

How
does
the DFGPartners
support international cooperation?
DFG´sJapanese

DFG´s Japanese Partners
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)• Joint international Workshops under CREST (Core Research for Evolutional Scienceand Technology) program and PRESTO (Precursory Research for Embryonic Science andTechnology) program• Molecular Technology (2016)• Joint research by associating with CREST/PRESTO program• Exascale Computing (2015-2018)• German-French-Japanese research projects funding in AI• Call details to be made available soon (2019)• Joint Calls for Project funding have been done in the following fields of science:• Nano electronics (3 Calls, 2007, 2008, 2009)• Computational Neuroscience (3 Calls 2011, 2012, 2013)
No new calls planned

Howdoesthe DFGPartners
support international cooperation?
DFG´sJapanese

DFG´s Japanese Partners
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED)• Joint Workshops• Metabolic Imaging (2016)• Neurosciences (2019)DFG´s Funding Programmes for International Cooperation
Mercator Fellows

 to pursue an intensive and long-term exchange with researchers in Germanyand abroad.
 a way of bringing additional expertise to the project or into the network andincreasing its visibility
 an allowance to cover travel expenses, fellows may receive a salary for theirwork.

Mercator Fellows available as a module in most DFG programmesMust to be applied through the German host (institution)

DFG´s Funding Programmes for International Cooperation
Leibniz Lecture Series The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is the most important researchaward in Germany.
 inviting Leibniz Price Awardee (and possibly next generation

researchers in his/her lab.) to Japan to present and discuss theexcellent research.

DFG´s Funding Programmes for International Cooperation
Leibniz Lecture Series► https://www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/leibniz_prize/index.html

Get in Contact with German Researchers
Online databases to find research projects and scientists in Germany
GEPRIS (online database on current DFG-funded projects) www.dfg.de/gepris/

Get in Contact with German Researchers
Online databases to find research projects and scientists in Germany
The information portal GERiT – German Research Institutions – www.gerit.org/en

Thank you for your attentions

For more information► on the DFG: www.dfg.de► Contact DFG Office Japan: japan@dfg.de