On the basis of a fruitful cooperation for more than twenty years within the framework of a standing open call and to harmonise the working procedures the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) have opened the possibility for funding of joint German-Russian projects in all areas of basic research for the period of 2018–2020.

Due to the reintegration of the Russian Foundation for Humanities (RFH) into RFBR the new call includes research fields in the humanities and social sciences. Collaborations of research teams from both countries are invited to submit joint proposals by 1 March 2017.

At the DFG these proposals are submitted in the funding scheme “Sachbeihilfe/Research Grants” and will be reviewed in competition with all other proposals in this scheme. It is important to note that there are no separate funds available for these efforts, proposals must succeed on the strengths of their intellectual merit in competition with all other proposals in the funding scheme “Sachbeihilfe/Research Grants”. All proposals will be reviewed by both organisations separately. The results of the review process will be shared between the agencies. Support will be granted for those proposals where both DFG and RFBR recommend funding.

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