NERC urgency funding: open
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Funding Initiative to Secure Endangered Data Repositories and Promote Data Resilience 2025 to 2027
Research grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Open to all fields
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Germany
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Support for preserving endangered research datasets held abroad and making them available to research communities in Germany and Europe. Projects can fund storage, specialist personnel, curation, legal assessment and integration with European data infrastructures. Proposals are accepted continuously until 30 September 2027; projects and expenditure must finish by 31 December 2027. Submission uses a DFG-provided upload link or an applicant-provided download link requested through the programme contact, rather than the usual elan route.
Eligibility
Covers: Staff, materials, equipment, curation and legal work; project end no later than 31 December 2027.
German research relevance is required; German institutions abroad and eligible international institutions may also participate.
Eligible non-profit research and information-infrastructure institutions, their members, and qualified researchers in Germany or at German research institutions abroad. International institutional eligibility is conditional under DFG rules.
Topics
endangered research datasetsspecialist personnellegal assessmentEuropean data infrastructuresresearch communitiesDFG
Source: dfg.de