This year, 30 declarations of intent were submitted to the DFG and published on the DFG-NFDI website. In addition to the University of Bremen and the DSC, the following seven institutions from the Bremen area are involved: BIPS, MARUM, AWI, Fraunhofer MEVIS, IWT, German Maritime Museum and Jacobs University. Out of 18 binding letters of intent for an application in 2020, four are with Bremen contribution:
NFDI4Earth - NFDI Consortium Earth System Sciences
Co-Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stephan Frickenhaus (AWI)
Participants: Prof. Dr.Michal Kucera (Universit?t Bremen / MARUM); Prof. Dr. Vikram Unnithan (Jacobs University Bremen)
NFDI4DataScience - NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Participant: Prof. Dr. Frank-Oliver Gl?ckner (Jacobs University / AWI)
NFDI4Memory - The Consortium for the Historically Oriented Humanities
Participants: Prof. Dr. Sunhild Kleing?rtner; Dr. Dennis Niewerth (Deutsches Schifffahrtsmuseum ? Leibniz-Institut für Maritime Geschichte)
NFDI-neuro - NFDI Neuroscience
Co-Spokesperson: Dr. Jan Klein (Fraunhofer MEVIS)
In addition, 12 non-binding letters of intent were submitted for an application next year, three of which were with participation from Bremen:
NFDI4Phys - Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur für disziplin?re und transdisziplin?re Physik
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hans-Günther D?bereiner (Universit?t Bremen)
Participants: Prof. Dr. Uwe Engel (Universit?t Bremen); Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler (DSC); Dr. Lena Steinmann (DSC); Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner (Universit?t Bremen)
NFDI4LifeUmbrella - Research data management infrastructure for life science
Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Iris Pigeot (BIPS); Prof. Dr. Frank-Oliver Gl?ckner (MARUM / AWI)
InnoMatSafety - Consortium for the Safety of Innovative Materials
Co-Spokesperson: Dr. Norbert Riefler (IWT)
In three rounds, the German federal and state governments fund up to 30 consortia over a period of five years. A total of up to 85 million euros per year are available for this purpose. The deadline for submitting an application in this round is September 30, 2020, with funding beginning on October 1, 2021.
In 2019, nine consortia received funding, four of them with participation from Bremen. You can find more information here.
Related Links:
nfdi- Nationale Forschungsdaten Infrastruktur
DFG- German Research Foundation