AGENCY: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)/The German Research Foundation (DFG)

PROGRAM: DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program: Bilateral Symposia and Workshops

OBJECTIVES: This program provides funding to promote stronger bilateral cooperation and increased competencies in the digital humanities communities in the United States and Germany by initiating or intensifying contact between distinguished scholars, junior researchers, scientists, librarians, information professionals, and others working on humanities projects.

Proposals may focus on any area of the digital humanities, including, but not limited to: 1) capacity building or networking workshops to prepare for future collaborative humanities projects based around a single theme, technology, media form, or scholarly discipline; 2) comparing and discussing the needs of researchers in both the U.S. and Germany and their uses of digitized resources; and 3) exploring existing and possible uses of information technology in the humanities in both communities.

ELIGIBILITY RESTRICTIONS: Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category. Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at least one U.S. institution, and there must be a project director from each country.

DEADLINES: October 29, 2009

FUNDING INFORMATION: Awards range from $20,000 to $100,000 for one year. Proposals should ensure that the amount requested from each agency results in budgets that are as balanced as possible. The total amount requested from both agencies together should not exceed the $100,000 (approximately €71,000) limit.

AGENCY CONTACT:
Office of Digital Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20506
Email: odh@neh.gov
Web: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/DFG_BSW.html

REMARKS: The partners will collaborate to write a single application package, which the U.S. partner will submit to the NEH (via Grants.gov) and the German partner will submit to the DFG via regular postal service (additional submission of a pdf version via e-mail is encouraged).

Instructions and forms are available on the Grants.Gov website (http://www.grants.gov). Additional information about Grants.gov for BU Investigators can be obtained on the OSP website at: http://www.bu.edu/osp/pdf/Grantsgovinfo.pdf. Please contact the OSP Assistant Director assigned to your school or department as soon as possible to coordinate submission through the Grants.gov system.

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