Deadline: 22-Feb-22
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has announced a funding opportunity “Collaborate with German partners on arts and humanities research” to:
- support academic research of the highest quality in the humanities undertaken by UK-German teams, whose primary aim is to make fundamental advances in human knowledge
- deepen and strengthen cooperation between UK and German researchers in the humanities,
- foster the growth of a transnational UK-German research culture.
Your project can address any area of the arts and humanities, including law and linguistics.
This is the fourth funding opportunity in a series of annual bilateral opportunities under the UK-German Funding Initiative in the Humanities programme. Following the renewal of the memorandum of understanding between DFG and AHRC in June 2021, there will be eight annual joint funding opportunities in total.
Both funding agencies are aware that some of the best research can only be achieved by working with the best researchers internationally.
Funding Information
- The budget requested from AHRC may not exceed £350,000 at 100% full economic cost (£280,000 at 80% full economic cost research council contribution).
- It is expected that in the region of 15 awards will be made under this funding opportunity (subject to proposals meeting the criteria and quality standards).
- Standard AHRC funding requirements apply to the UK component. UK costs should be approved by an eligible UK research organisation in line with the requirements of full economic costing for applications to UK research councils.
- The duration of the projects will normally be, and must not exceed, 36 months. Successful projects will be expected to start in early 2023.
- UK projects will be required to start within three months of the acceptance of the awards. German projects are expected to follow a similar schedule.
What they’re looking for?
- The projects must focus on substantive research and feature an integrated work programme. Academic infrastructure or networking activities can only be funded within projects with a substantive research focus. Stand-alone projects, infrastructure or networking projects will not be eligible.
- Only proposals whose primary aim is to make fundamental advances in human knowledge in the relevant fields may be submitted in response to the funding opportunity.
- Applicants who are uncertain whether their proposal would be eligible should contact AHRC or DFG for clarification.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants in the UK must meet AHRC eligibility requirements. Applicants in Germany must meet the eligibility requirements of DFG.
- Funding will be distributed among the research partners according to the researchers’ place of work and, in general, according to the funding rules of each individual agency.
- Research teams
- Each joint research project must consist of two (UK and German) national teams. Each team must be led by one principal investigator.
- The UK team must be led by an arts and humanities researcher who falls within the remit of the AHRC and is based at a research organisation eligible to apply to the AHRC.
- The German team must be led by a humanities researcher eligible to apply to the DFG.
- Definition of arts and humanities
- For this funding opportunity, the field of humanities is defined by the AHRC’s remit, not by the DFG’s classification of humanities.
- First-time applicants
- Applications to this funding opportunity are not considered as first proposals under DFG’s regulations for first time applicants. As such, proposals submitted by a first-time applicant should not be labelled as first-time proposals and will not be granted special consideration by reviewers.
- International co-investigators
- AHRC’s provision to include (where relevant) international co-investigators will apply to the UK component of projects. However, they would not expect international co-investigators based in Germany to be included within the UK component as they would expect investigators in Germany to be included within the German team and DFG supported component of the collaboration.
- You can include more than one international co-investigator, however the total costs cannot exceed 30% of the overall 100% full economic cost of your application.
- Please refer to the AHRC Research Funding Guide for further information on AHRC’s international co-investigator policy and which costs are eligible within a UK budget.
For more information, visit https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/collaborate-with-german-partners-on-arts-and-humanities-research/