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News: DFGDFG to Fund 13 New Collaborative Research Centres
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 13 new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) to further support top-level research in German universities. This was decided by the responsible Grants Committee in Bonn. The new CRCs will receive a total of approximately €166 million in funding for an initial four-year period as of 1 January 2023. This includes a 22 percent programme allowance for indirect project costs. Five of the new networks set up are CRC/Transregios, spread across multiple applicant universities.
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Call: University of Cambridge / University of BonnThe 1st Desirable Digitalisation Conference: Many Worlds of AI
[Deadline: 2022/12/31] The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI), the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the Centre for Science and Thought (CST) at the University of Bonn, is organizing the 1st Desirable Digitalization Conference: Many Worlds of AI: Intercultural Approaches to the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence from April 26-28, 2023, at the University of Cambridge. The conference will be organized as a hybrid event. Proposals can be submitted until December 31, 2022.
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DFG / JSPSGerman-Japanese Funding Programme for Joint Workshops and Research Visits
[Deadline: 2022/09/06] DFG and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) jointly fund German-Japanese Workshops to facilitate exchange between the research communities in both countries.
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DFG Press Release - German government’s plans for science & research
“Strong Commitment to Free Basic Research”
The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) welcomes the future Federal Government’s plans for science and research. Commenting on the draft coalition agreement between the SPD, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and the FDP, the President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), Professor Dr. Katja Becker, said:
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News: DLR / NICTDLR laser terminal in space establishes contact with Japanese ground station
Our Supporter the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has successfully conducted a joint experiment with Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). The international cooperation of both organizations enabled the project, in which a laser terminal onboard a DLR satellite was able to successfully establish contact with a NICT ground station through optical data transmission.
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Call: Computational ConnectomicsGerman-Japanese research projects in the field of “Computational Connectomics”: selection result
The DFG and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) are funding two German-Japanese research projects in the neurosciences in the field of “computational connectomics”.
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News: German Research Foundation (DFG)Special Prize for Prof. Christian Drosten
The DFG and Stifterverband are awarding a one-time prize for outstanding science communication during the Covid-19 pandemic. This award, carrying prize money of €50,000, recognises virologist Professor Dr. Christian Drosten from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin for “exceptional contributions to science and society in the face of a dramatic developing pandemic”.
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