The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) collaborate to fund projects developing digital infrastructures for humanities research. Grants support innovation in building digital collections, tools for accessing resources, ensuring sustainability, creating digital scholarly communication modes, and managing digital data. Key requirement: U.S. and German partners must collaborate, with applications co-written and submitted by both parties. Projects must involve at least one eligible German individual or institution and one U.S. institution. Application deadline: Sep 27, 2012.
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:: | |
| Category of Funding Activity:: | Humanities (see “Cultural Affairs” in CFDA) |
| Category Explanation:: | |
| Expected Number of Awards:: | |
| Assistance Listings Number(s):: | 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:: | Special district governments |
| 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:: | |
| Grantor Contact Information:: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact: |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
| Synopsis 1 |
Package Status
Below are CLOSED Opportunity Package(s) no longer available for this Funding Opportunity:
Package No: 1
| Assistance Listings: | 45.169 |
| Competition ID: | |
| Competition Title: | |
| Opportunity Package ID: | PKG00130150 |
| Opening Date: | Jul 02, 2012 |
| Closing Date: | Sep 27, 2012 |
| Agency Contact Information:: | If you have questions about the program, contact the Office of Digital Humanities staff at odh@neh.gov. Applicants wishing to speak to a staff member by telephone should provide in the e-mail message a telephone number and a preferred time to call. |
| Who Can Apply:: | Organization Applicants |
| mendatory_forms |
Application for Federal Domestic Assistance-Short Organizational [V1.1] Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs [V1.0] Project/Performance Site Location(s) [V1.4] Attachments [V1.0] |
| optional_forms |
Packages
| Assistance Listings | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions | Who Can Apply: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45.169 | PKG00130150 | Jul 02, 2012 | Sep 27, 2012 | View | If you have questions about the program, contact the Office of Digital Humanities staff at odh@neh.gov. Applicants wishing to speak to a staff member by telephone should provide in the e-mail message a telephone number and a preferred time to call. | Organization Applicants |