Israeli-German research teams are invited to submit outstanding joint research proposals within the scope of basic research in all fields of the sciences and the humanities. From now on, the funding opportunity follows a Standing Open Procedure (SOP) on a lead agency basis, which allows the continuous submission of joint bilateral proposals to the DFG as the Lead Agency until further notice.
This SOP works without proposal deadlines, although a few requirements have to be considered in the schedule of the proposal process, such as the yearly pre-registration obligation of the Israeli researchers on the ISF side.
There are no separate funds available for this joint funding initiative. This funding opportunity follows the general funding lines and budgets of the DFG and the ISF. Proposals must succeed on the strengths of their intellectual merit and teams in competition with other proposals. The funding organisations aim to support the proposals among the top 20 percent in the respective evaluation.
Within this funding initiative, Israeli-German research teams can submit proposals for outstanding joint basic research projects in all fields of the sciences and the humanities. Joint projects submitted under this funding opportunity may have a maximum duration of 36 months.
Please note that in order to be entitled to submit a joint proposal under this funding opportunity a pre-registration of the Israeli Principal Investigator (PI) at the ISF is mandatory no later than the end of October each year.
After the pre-registration of the Israeli partner, a Germany-based PI can submit the joint proposal to the DFG at any time. After submitting the joint proposal to the DFG, the Israeli PI must submit a copy of the proposal to the ISF as well as additional information requested by the ISF ("administrative application"), typically within seven days.
