Die Ausschreibung richtet sich an Hochschulen, die sich durch den Betrieb eines Datenspeichersystems an den Aufgaben eines oder mehrerer NFDI-Konsortien beteiligen oder dies planen. Gefördert werden können den Programmgrundsätzen entsprechend nur reine Investitionskosten, und zwar für alle Arten von Speichersystemen, unabhängig von der Art der Nutzung, wie z. B. Datenbereitstellung, Langzeitarchivierung, georedundante Datenspiegelung oder im Rahmen von Datenprozessierung. Es gilt die übliche hälftige Finanzierung aus Landesmitteln.

In dieser konzertierten Aktion entfällt die (sonst übliche) Anforderung, dass die Beschaffung des beantragten Geräts direkt mit laufenden oder geplanten Forschungsvorhaben begründet werden muss. Da das Vorhalten und Bereitstellen der Daten vor dem Hintergrund erfolgt, dass eine weitere Nutzung noch nicht unmittelbar absehbar ist, muss stattdessen die Beschaffung der Speichersysteme durch die Bedarfe der damit zu versorgenden NFDI-Konsortien hergeleitet werden. Dabei ist auch eine nur anteilige Bedarfsdeckung durch ein System sowie die Unterstützung eines Konsortiums durch mehrere Standorte bzw. Anträge möglich. Entsprechend müssen die Konsortien im Antrag ihre Bedarfe konkret darlegen und den Umfang plausibel belegen können. Dies setzt voraus, dass Anträge im Vorfeld bestmöglich koordiniert werden. Außerdem soll in den Anträgen dargelegt werden, wie die Schnittstelle zwischen den Betreibenden des Speichersystems und der NFDI ausgestaltet wird, um eine angemessene Integration des Systems in das Gesamtkonzept der NFDI zu gewährleisten.
Abweichend zu anderen Anträgen im Programm „Forschungsgroßgeräte“ ist eine speziell für die Ausschreibung angepasste Antragsvorlage zu verwenden. Diese erhalten Sie, sobald Sie Ihre Absichtserklärung eingereicht haben.

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Termin: 05.08.2025 (Absichtserklärung); 07.10.2025 (Volläntrage)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Wissenschaftliche Geräte und Informationstechnik: Tobias Schwabe, Tel.: 0228/885-2471, tobias.schwabe@dfg.de, Stefan Winkler-Nees, Tel.: 0228/885-2578, stefan.winkler-nees@dfg.de
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Disinformation and misinformation have received considerable attention across various academic fields. Recent research addresses a plethora of topics, including dissemination and reception of disinformation (communication and media studies), belief formation (philosophy, psychology), automatic detection (linguistics, computer science), platform regulation (law), societal effects and political challenges (social sciences), and the definition and classification of relevant phenomena. Yet research remains fragmented across disciplines and methodologies. Re:DIS aims to establish a network for the coordinated advancement of disinformation research, with an emphasis on bringing together normative and descriptive approaches as well as conceptual and empirical methods.

Re:DIS adopts a broadly epistemic perspective on disinformation. It uses “disinformation” as an umbrella term for publicly disseminated content that worsens the epistemic position of recipients, regardless of the content’s truth value or the intentions of its producers. One’s epistemic situation can be worsened in various ways beyond being deliberately misinformed or misled – for instance, through overflow with irrelevant information, decontextualised facts, emotionally manipulative content, or undermined trust in reliable sources.

Accordingly, Re:DIS will not only consider the straightforward cases of disinformation that have received substantial scholarly attention – such as conspiracy theories, fake news, propaganda, political lies and “bullshit” – but also welcomes projects that explore more sophisticated and less-studied forms of disinformation. Re:DIS is especially interested in research projects that address foundational theoretical questions and conceptual distinctions which have either been overlooked or too readily assumed to be settled in applied research concerned with identifying, evaluating or countering disinformation.
Re:DIS will not address a number of phenomena that, due to their prevalence in digital spaces, are often mentioned alongside disinformation: hate speech, insults, threats and bullying fall outside its research focus.

The Priority Programme focuses on research at disciplinary intersections between philosophy, psychology, law, computer science, linguistics and the social and political sciences. The programme particularly encourages interdisciplinary projects, while also being open to intradisciplinary research that clearly benefits from being pursued in an interdisciplinary environment. Proposals should identify research problems situated at the intersection of at least two disciplines and specify the added value expected from collaboration. We also encourage interdisciplinary tandem proposals.

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Termin: 01.11.2025 (Registrierung bis 18.10.2025)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Niklas Hebing, Humanities and Social Sciences 1, Tel.: 0228/885-2949, niklas.hebing@dfg.de, Sandra Fuß, Humanities and Social Sciences 1, Tel.: 0228/885-2233, sandra.fuss@dfg.de
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Es können trilaterale Transferprojekte mit einem Projektkonsortium bestehend aus  einem Hochschulpartner aus einer Universität/HAW/FH (DFG-finanziert), einem Fraunhofer-Partner (Fraunhofer-finanziert) und einem Anwendungspartner (eigenfinanziert) beantragt werden. Diese Projekte müssen auf Ergebnissen basieren, die vom Hochschulpartner in DFG-geförderten Forschungsprojekten generiert wurden. Die Projektpartner greifen diese Ergebnisse auf und entwickeln sie gemeinsam zu einem Demonstrator bzw. Prototyp weiter. Bei Plattformtechnologien wird die Entwicklung anhand eines konkreten Anwendungsbeispiels erwartet. Die Anträge müssen auch detaillierte Angaben zur beabsichtigten wissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Verwertung enthalten. Die geplanten Ergebnisse müssen im vorwettbewerblichen Bereich liegen.

Die Laufzeit der Projekte kann maximal drei Jahre betragen. DFG und Fraunhofer stellen jeweils Mittel bis zu einer Höhe von 3 Millionen Euro pro Ausschreibung zur Verfügung. Im Rahmen der Ausschreibung wird angestrebt, etwa fünf Transferprojekte zu fördern.

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Termin: 09.09.2025 (Projektskizzen), 11.03.2026 (Antrag bei Aufforderung)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Heidrich, Ingenieurwissenschaften 1, Tel.: 0228/885-2277, Dr.-Ing. Bastian Mohr, Mathematik und Ingenieurwissenschaften 2, Tel.: 0228/885-3140, Christiane Mohren, Mathematik und Ingenieurwissenschaften 2, Tel.: 0228/885-2019, erkenntnistransfer@dfg.de
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The programme aims to establish an interdisciplinary national network of excellence on synthetic molecular communication (MC), comprising tandem teams consisting of communications engineers, who will contribute the required expertise in communication, networking, signal processing and information theory, and researchers from complementary disciplines, who will contribute the expertise required for MC hardware and experiment design as well as application relevance. The collective interdisciplinary expertise of the participants will allow HoD-MoCS to tackle the numerous fundamental theoretical, experimental and application-related challenges arising in synthetic MC design in a holistic manner.

Interested researchers are invited to participate in a preparatory meeting on 14 July 2025 at Fraport Conference Center (FRACC), Frankfurt.T o participate, please register by 19 June 2025 with the administrative contact of the Priority Programme: Lukas Brand, lukas.brand@fau.de

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Termin: 16.01.2026 (Registrierung bis 02.01.2026)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr.-Ing. Bastian Mohr, Mathematics and Engineering Sciences 2, Tel.: 0228/885-3140, bastian.mohr@dfg.de, Malwina Momot, Tel.: 0228/885-2296, malwina.momot@dfg.de
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Focus of Projects: In order to achieve a fundamental change in the paradigms for the recyclability of fibre-reinforced polymers (FRPs), the planned SPP is pursuing ambitious goals. The aim is to develop alternative FRPs that are recyclable and enable at least one, and ideally several, material cycles while maintaining product and performance. In principle, the highest possible value retention in the recycling process must be guaranteed. The target performance should be at least 80% of selected mechanical benchmark properties (e.g. specific modulus of elasticity/strength/fatigue life, etc.) after the first cycle. Furthermore, the technical or mechanical properties of the new FRP in the initial state must correspond to the current industrial standard. The reference here is either continuous or short-fibre-reinforced FRP. In addition, a qualitative and ideally quantitative consideration (if necessary up to an LCA) of ecological sustainability in terms of defossilisation and energy and resource consumption compared to the benchmark must be ensured, e.g. through bio-based base materials/resources, recycled petrochemical carbon or multiple use of reinforcing components. The research proposals must also plausibly explain which concepts and methods will be used to achieve the target figure(s) (80%) based on the state of the art.

The SPP 2528 focuses primarily on material and polymer engineering issues or approaches to the creation and investigation of new, recycling-friendly, polymer-based composite materials. This also means that a delimitation of the approaches to be funded is necessary.

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Termin: 29.10.2025 (Registrierung bis 15.10.2025)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr.-Ing. Tobias Standau, Engineering Sciences 1, Tel.: 0228/885-3257, tobias.standau@dfg.de
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SPP 2575 investigates the entanglement of sustainability and resilience in agri-food chains in times of multiple crises. In the current era of multiple crises – including global environmental change, geopolitical polarisation, wars and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic – global food supply is (again) at risk and different agri-food chains have been temporarily interrupted.

The Priority Programme aims to answer this question and develop an integrated, conceptual understanding of the entanglement between sustainability and resilience in agri-food chains; create integrated methodological and empirical approaches to analyse sustainability and resilience in these chains; and establish an interdisciplinary research network within and beyond the SPP focusing on sustainability and resilience in agri-food chains.

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Termin: 15.10.2025, Registrierung bis 08.10.2025
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Tim Haarmann, Geosciences/Geography, Tel.: 0228/885 2328, tim.haarmann@dfg.de
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While modern language technology increasingly permeates many areas of applications, much of its input-output behaviour and its inner mechanics remains unknown. As a result, recent years have seen a newly emerging field of interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse work at the interface between the cognitive language sciences (broadly construed) and language technology (focused on neural language models, but not exclusively). However, many foundational and methodological issues remain unclear. The overarching goal of this Priority Programme is therefore to channel cross-disciplinary efforts dedicated to the understanding, testing and safe application of modern language technology (with a focus on language modelling).

The Priority Programme LaSTing addresses researchers in the interdisciplinary field of the cognitive and computational language sciences (including classical disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, computer science and others) who seek to advance our understanding of language modelling from a theoretical or empirical point of view, or use modern language technology as a tool for innovative theoretical and empirical research in the cognitive language sciences. Individual projects are expected to relate to at least one of the Priority Area’s core issues, which are robust assessment, safe applicability and foundational questions. The Priority Programme especially encourages contributions that seek to address these core issues by bringing to bear concepts and methods from the theoretical/empirical language sciences.

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Termin: 30.09.2025 (Registrierung bis 23.09.2025)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Humanities and Social Sciences 2: Dr. Helga Weyerts-Schweda, , Tel.: 0228 885-2046, helga.weyerts-schweda@dfg.de, Melanie Klein, Tel.: 0228 885-2843, melanie.klein@dfg.de
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Die Förderung soll den Auf- und Ausbau qualitativ hochwertiger, umfangreicher Datenkorpora ermöglichen, um eine breite und wissenschaftlich fundierte Datenbasis für die (Weiter-)Entwicklung und Anwendung von Methoden der Künstlichen Intelligenz für die Wissenschaft zu schaffen. Der künftige Einsatz von Methoden und Anwendungen, die auf den geförderten Datenkorpora beruhen werden, kann dabei sowohl in der Forschung als auch innerhalb wissenschaftlicher Informationsinfrastrukturen liegen. Qualität, Umfang und Zusammensetzung der Datenkorpora müssen dabei auf die jeweiligen Bedarfe abgestimmt sein und unter der Prämisse stehen, über einzelne Forschungsfragen und Standorte hinweg Forschung zu ermöglichen oder die Informationsversorgung zu verbessern.

Es können folgende Aspekte in Projekte einbezogen werden:

• Konzeption von Auswahl- und Qualitätskriterien sowie Umsetzung von Qualitätssicherungsmaßnahmen
• Nachnutzung und gegebenenfalls Anpassung sowie insbesondere Anwendung von Verfahren der Datenbereinigung, -aggregation, -annotation bzw. -kuration und -harmonisierung
• Verfügbarmachung und Bereitstellung des aufzubauenden Datenkorpus innerhalb bestehender wissenschaftlicher Informationsinfrastrukturen

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Termin: unverbindliche Absichtserklärung bis 28.05.2025, Registrierung bis 23.07.2025, Antragstellung bis 30.07.2025
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Stefanie Mewes, Tel.: 0228/885-2218, stefanie.mewes@dfg.de, Dr. Matthias Katerbow, Tel.: 0228/885-2358, matthias.katerbow@dfg.de,Clara Grau, Tel.: 0228/885-2473, clara.grau@dfg.de
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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR) and the DFG announce a joint call to foster sustainable, environmentally friendly processes, which are vital for our future supply with necessary products for our everyday life as well as clean energy. The proposed Singaporean-German collaborative research projects must focus on curiosity-driven research related to sustainable chemistry and address research challenges related to environmental sustainability. Collaborative research proposals for up to 36 months will be accepted.

The applicants should demonstrate how bringing together researchers based in Singapore and Germany will add value and advance their research. It is expected that each partner substantially contributes to the common project. Projects should be integrated but do not have to be symmetrical. However, work packages are expected to be delivered in a reasonably balanced manner and schedules are to be well coordinated. The team of applicants should ensure there is a plan for effective delivery and coordination of research across the partners.

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Termin: 18.06.2025
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: oga_bilats@hq.a-star.edu.sg, Inquiries related to general questions on Singapore-German cooperation: Britta Möller, International Affairs, Tel.: 0228/885-2285, britta.moeller@dfg.de
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Aufgrund der steigenden Inflation und Kosten hat die DFG beschlossen, Maßnahmen zur Stabilisierung der Ausgaben zu ergreifen, was zu einer einmaligen Aussetzung der Ausschreibung für neue Schwerpunktprogramme führt.

Diese Aussetzung betrifft die Antragsrunde zur Neueinrichtung von Schwerpunktprogrammen, die ursprünglich für den 15. Oktober 2025 geplant war, und verschiebt sie auf den 15. Oktober 2026.

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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) are pleased to announce a funding opportunity for joint Dutch-German research projects. The funding opportunity is planned as a three-year pilot for a joint Lead Agency Procedure with the NWO Domain Science. It is open for proposals that fit the scope of the NWO Domain Science and the corresponding DFG review boards.

Dutch-German research teams are invited to submit their joint research proposals within the scope of basic research in the remit of the NWO Domain Science (Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics) and the corresponding DFG review boards.

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Termin: Proposals can be submitted at any time during the three-year pilot phase: 6 August 2024 until 30 July 2027
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Michael Sommerhof, Tel.: 0228/885-2017, michael.sommerhof@dfg.de
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SPP 2361 investigates the pre-industrial floodplains in Central Europe and the fluvial societies that operated there. Floodplains are global hotspots of sensitive socio-environmental changes, exceptionally dynamic landscapes and key areas of cultural and natural heritage. Due to their high land-use capacity and the simultaneous necessity of land reclamation and risk minimisation, societies have radically restructured Central European floodplains.

The Priority Programme aims to answer the questions of when and why humans became a significant controlling factor in floodplain formation and how humans in interaction with natural processes modified floodplains. It will clarify the extent to which short-term and long-term natural floodplain dynamics together with early human impacts affected subsequent developments and led to path dependencies. The Priority Programme encourages project proposals from archaeology, the geosciences and history that analyse the interaction of humans and their environments in the emergence of the Fluvial Anthroposphere through multidisciplinary and cutting-edge methodological approaches.

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Termin: 20.06.2025 (Registrierung bis 13.06.2025)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Christoph Kümmel, Tel.: 0228/885-2294, christoph.kuemmel@dfg.de, Sabine Thomas, Tel.: 0228/885-2810, sabine.thomas@dfg.de
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The aim of this Priority Programme is therefore to explore the potentials of ongoing developments in the field of main memory technologies and architectures. Despite the disruptive nature of these technologies, systems software and applications need to be enabled to fully exploit them. In order to master disruptive memory technologies and their impact on the overall memory hierarchy, research efforts are required on all levels of the classic system software stack, for example:

• Computer architecture (technical computer science): innovative architectures, for example, sensor nodes with fully-persistent state; improving/adapting existing architectures, for example, issues of volatile and non-volatile memory co-existence; instruction set extensions and memory management units
• Operating systems: software abstractions for new types of memory, including disaggregated on-demand memory from shared pools; integration into the memory hierarchy; fine-grained isolation and sharing of persistent objects; synchronisation mechanisms and memory transactions; systems that never reboot; removal of “persistent” faults or bugs; models and strategies for thread and data placement in a world of changing memory technologies
• Algorithms / data structures: dealing with heterogeneity (high/low bandwidth, different read/write performance); lightweight transactions on data structures
• Databases: optimised usage of different memory types, for example, index structures in persistent memory or optimised query execution by making use of in-/near-memory computing
• Languages / compilers / software engineering: support for in-/near-memory computing; evolution of persistent state; extended type systems and other models for novel classes of memory; conversion of legacy software; potential bugs related to the new technology

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Termin: 05.03.2025 (Registrierung bis 19.02.2025)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Valentina Damerow, Tel.: 0228/885-2868, valentina.damerow@dfg.de, Constanze Grunwald,Tel.: 0228/885-2973, constanze.grunwald@dfg.de
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In view of the increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, ongoing energy transitions and the development of alternative concepts for the activation of small molecules, new approaches for artificial N2 conversion are in demand. The Priority Programme SPP 2370 focuses on the development of heterogeneous 

• electrocatalytic,
• photocatalytic and
• photoelectrochemical

N2 conversion reactions for delocalised and sustainable N2 conversion pathways with – as a long-term objective – an overall energy consumption and space-time yield comparable to the Haber-Bosch process. 

This is to be achieved by establishing insights into structure/activity relationships for catalysts including experimental and theoretical design strategies, along with developing novel electrode and reactor concepts. The aim is to overcome N2 mass transfer limitations, and by using novel analytical techniques to investigate the underlying mechanisms to be able to design catalysts rationally, and to develop new reaction pathways. The SPP is explicitly not limited to N2 conversion processes to ammonia but can also include research on oxidative conversions. Moreover, the respective counter reaction should be analysed in detail as well. 

The present call invites proposals for the second three-year funding period (2026–2028).

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Termin: 08.07.2025 (Registrierung bis 01.07.2025)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Kerstin Freitag, Tel.: 0228/885-2352, kerstin.freitag@dfg.de, Ralph Kirschbaum, Tel.: 0228/885-2326, ralph.kirschbaum@dfg.de
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Die DFG setzt ihre strategische Förderinitiative zur KI fort und strebt eine gezielte Stärkung von Forscher*innen in frühen Karrierephasen in diesem Bereich an. Ziel der Ausschreibung ist es, die nächste Generation von hochqualifizierten Wissenschaftler*innen für die KI-Methodenentwicklung durch Eröffnung frühzeitiger Karriereoptionen mit hoher Eigenständigkeit zu gewinnen. Erfolgreiche Antragsteller*innen können durch die eigenverantwortliche Leitung einer Emmy Noether-Gruppe über einen Zeitraum von sechs Jahren ihr Forschungsprofil schärfen, ihre internationale Sichtbarkeit erhöhen und so Berufbarkeit erlangen.

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Termin: 11.06.2025 (Antragsskizze), 04.06.2025 (Registrierung), 17.12.2025 (Vollantrag)
Adresse: DFG, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn
Kontakt: Dr. Melanie Melching, Tel.: 0228/885-3274, Dr. Valentina Damerow, Tel.: 0228/885-2886, Antragsberechtigung/Verfahrensfragen: Verena Aust, Tel.: 0228/885-3191, ai-initiative@dfg.de
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