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News: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Seibold Prize 2020

In 2020, the German Research Foundation (DFG) will honour four researchers with the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize. Two women and two men are to receive the €15,000 award. Through years of dedication, they have successfully contributed to both academic and cultural exchange between Germany and Japan.

News: Autonomous Driving / Joint Press Release

Japanese Cabinet Office and BMBF intensify Japanese – German research cooperation

Japanese Cabinet Office (CAO) and The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) have now further intensified their cooperation on research activities related to autonomous driving, first initiated in 2017. The joint Steering Committee approved the funding of two new projects.

News: Results of Joint Call 2019 (SICORP)

Japanese-German research projects on “Optics and Photonics”

Three new German-Japanese research projects from the second call for proposals (2019) on “Optics and Photonics” will start on October 1, 2020.

News: Results of EIG CONCERT-Japan Joint Call 2019

“Smart Water Management for Sustainable Society”

These four projects with German participation were selected in the Joint Call on “Smart Water Management for Sustainable Society” (2019) . They are beginning in spring 2020 and last for three years.  

Call for Applications

Leibniz Open Topics 2020

The Leibniz Association is one of the most prominent research organisations in Europe, which goals are scientific excellence and societal relevance. With the new Leibniz Open Topics 2020 format the Leibniz Association seeks international postdocs in life sciences.

Registration until Oct 18, 2019

Trilateral French-Japanese-German Research Projects on Artificial Intelligence

A first trilateral call for research proposals on “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) is announced by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) together with the French National Research Agency (ANR, France), and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, Japan).

Excellence Commission selects new Universities of Excellence

Ten Universities and one University consortium of Excellence were selected out of 19 applications for long-term funding as part of the German Excellence Strategy.