01.12.2025

DFG and AHRC: UK-German Research Projects in the Arts and Humanities

Deadline: 11 February 2026

Seventeen new collaborative projects will contribute to research excellence across the arts and humanities thanks to the ongoing collaboration between the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the UK Research and Innovation’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This new tranche of awarded projects will bring the two funding organisations’ partnership, which has been ongoing since 2018, to a total of 127 awards.

We are pleased to note that in May 2025, the AHRC and the DFG extended the longstanding bilateral funding partnership for a further five rounds, raising the total number of annual funding opportunities to thirteen. This partnership will continue to deepen and strengthen the cooperation between researchers from the UK and Germany, thus leading to the growth of a transnational UK-German research culture.

The current eighth funding opportunity is open for proposals until 11 February 2026.

Through the discovery-led model adopted for this programme, researchers are empowered to pursue areas of international research significance as identified through their own work. The projects funded this year cover a wide and diverse range of topics, providing new understanding of research fields, including archaeology, history, law, literature, linguistics, musicology and philosophy

Further information:
https://news.dfg.de/a/a.aspx?AysDK4luB9Mnj8Dn9ceQUX3lqg2