01.03.2023

NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (NSF-DFG SaTC)

Proposals can be submitted until 09.01.2025

To facilitate the support of collaborative work between US groups and their German counterparts, NSF’s (National Science Foundation) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) and DFG’s Division of Mathematics and Engineering Sciences 2 (II-MING) have recently agreed on a lead agency activity in “Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace” with NSF acting as the lead agency. US-German collaborators are invited to submit joint proposals in the areas described in NSF’s “Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)” program. Joint proposals should contain detailed information about the mode and intrinsic necessity of collaboration between the US and the German side. With NSF being the lead agency, proposals submitted under this opportunity will be reviewed by NSF only and along with other proposals submitted to the SaTC program in accordance with the standard NSF merit review criteria and additional review criteria as specified in the SaTC solicitation. The result of the review process will be shared between the agencies to make final decisions on this basis. Please note that there are no separate funds on the DFG side either and proposals will compete with all other proposals in the “Sachbeihilfe/Research Grants Programme”. Proposals selected for funding will be funded by NSF on the US side, and by DFG on the German side.

The scope of this opportunity is the “SaTC: CORE: Small” designation with project durations of up to three years. For the part to be financed by DFG, only those projects that fall within DFG’s funding responsibility and that fit into the funding scheme “Sachbeihilfe/Research Grants Programme” are eligible – cf. DFG Guideline 50.01. The maximum initial funding duration is three years. No general budget limit applies to the part funded by DFG. Projects must have well-defined joint working programs, clearly demonstrating the added value of US-German collaboration. It is expected that each partner substantially contributes to the joint project.

The joint proposal submission opportunity of this activity is expected to continue for two years, ending 9 January 2025. Proposals can be submitted any time, no deadlines apply. Please note that due to the limited duration of this opportunity, it will not be possible to submit joint renewal proposals for projects funded in the course of this activity.

For more information, please visit: https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/info_wissenschaft_23_13/index.html