This initiative aims to bring together relevant and competitive researchers from Germany and China to design and carry out collaborative research projects.

In recent years, the combination of numerical methods and learning-based approaches has gained an ever-increasing interest as a research field within Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing. The suggested topic “Intelligent Numerical Mathematics” (iNum) will foster the development of the two emerging fields of learning-based numerics and numerically efficient learning methods. Here, both fields are viewed as research topics within Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing. This viewpoint is supported by a fast-growing number of publications and presentations at conferences across Applied Mathematics and Computational Science and Engineering (CSE).

Applicants for a bilateral collaborative project within this call must submit their joint proposal to their national funding organisation. Chinese principal investigators (PIs) submit their documents to the NSFC, German PIs to the DFG. All documents must be written in English. Proposals must be submitted by the Germany-based principal investigator via elan(externer Link), the DFG’s electronic proposal processing system, by 30 October 2025 at the latest. If this is the first time you are submitting a proposal to the DFG, please note that you must register in the elan portal before you can submit your proposal. You must do so by 23 October 2025.