The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are pleased to announce their cooperation in funding international research and training programmes. To support German-U.S. research and training projects, NSF and DFG have agreed to align application and funding processes of DFG’s International Re-search Training Groups (IRTG) and Individual Grants programmes with NSF’s Part-nerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) programme.

1. International Research Training Groups (IRTGs):
   The IRTG programme is dedicated to establishing a joint doctoral training programme between a German university and a university abroad. By combining an IRTG and a PIRE application, German and American institutions may join forces to create a bilateral U.S.-German doctoral training programme.
2. The Individual Grants programme allows individual researchers to participate as a partner in a PIRE proposal. This is particularly of interest for PIRE projects in which a researcher in Germany is only one of several foreign partners in a PIRE proposal.