The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) are offering a bilateral grant program to support the development and implementation of digital infrastructures and services vital for humanities research. This grant is for fostering innovative methods, standards, and best practices for building and merging digital collections, developing generic tools for accessing and processing digital resources, ensuring the long-term sustainability of existing digital resources, creating new digital scholarly communication modes, and developing models for managing digital data. Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement, with each application needing sponsorship from institutions in both countries and project directors from each. The grant supports projects for up to three years.
Opportunity ID: 181176
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | 20120927-HG |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | NEH/DFG Bilateral Digital Humanities Program |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Grant |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Humanities |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | – |
| Assistance Listings: | 45.169 — Promotion of the Humanities_Office of Digital Humanities |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 02, 2012 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 27, 2012 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 27, 2012 |
| Archive Date: | Oct 27, 2012 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | – |
| Award Ceiling: | $350,000 |
| Award Floor: | $0 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | City or township governments County governments Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education State governments Special district governments Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education Private institutions of higher education |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| Description: | The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) are working together to offer support for projects that contribute to developing and implementing digital infrastructures and services for humanities research. In order to encourage new approaches and develop innovative methods in any field of the humanities, these grants provide funding for up to three years in any of the following areas: developing innovative methodsas well as standards and best practicesfor building and merging digital collections that are important to the American and German scholarly community for use in research; developing and implementing generic tools, methods, and techniques for accessing and processing digital resources relevant to humanities research; ensuring the completion and long-term sustainability of existing digital resources (typically in conjunction with a library or archive); creating new digital modes of scholarly communication and publishing that facilitate international cooperation and dissemination of humanities scholarship; and developing models and case studies for effectively managing digital data generated in humanities research projects (for example, texts, audio files, photographs, 3D objects). 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 (see Section III, Eligibility, below), and there must be a project director from each country. The partners will collaborate to write a single application package. The U.S. partner will submit the package to NEH via Grants.gov, and the German partner will submit it to DFG via regular postal service and preferably also by e-mail. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/nehdfg-bilateral-digital-humanities-program |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Program questions from applicants in the United States should be directed to NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities at odh@neh.gov. Applicants wishing to speak to a staff member by telephone should provide in an e-mail message a telephone number and a preferred time to call. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
Email:odh@neh.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Program questions from applicants in the United States should be directed to NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities at odh@neh.gov. Applicants wishing to speak to a staff member by telephone should provide in an e-mail message a telephone number and a preferred time to call. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930. Email: odh@neh.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.169 | PKG00130150 | Jul 02, 2012 | Sep 27, 2012 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
181176 SF424_Short_1_1-1.1.pdf
181176 SupplementaryCoverSheetforNEHGrantPrograms-1.0.pdf
181176 PerformanceSite_1_4-1.4.pdf
181176 Attachments-1.0.pdf
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