New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is pleased to pre-announce that NORFACE – New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe – in cooperation with CHANSE – Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe – will open a call for international research projects in the Social Sciences on the topic of “Enhancing well-being for the future”.

The theme can be approached from a variety of perspectives and disciplines in the social sciences. It enables and encourages multi-disciplinarity and provides opportunities for pan-European research integrating researchers from different regions of Europe, and for comparisons across various contexts.

The present call proposes to focus the research on the following themes:

• Crises, challenges and well-being
• Environmental challenges and well-being
• Well-being and mental health
• Well-being, economy and politics

Information about the call

Project team: Composed of at least four and a maximum of six principal investigators, i.e. partners, eligible to receive funding from four or more different countries participating in the call

Project duration: 24–36 months

Research Funding: up to a maximum amount of €1,500,000 (across all partners)

The Well-being call promotes diversity in research. When building research consortia, applicants are strongly encouraged to take into account the following aspects:

• Gender balance
• Academic age balance
• Geographical diversity
• Knowledge exchange and impact

Indicative timeline

Official call announcement and launch of the submission system: 26 May 2023
Deadline for outline proposals: 21 September 2023, 14:00 CET
Deadline for invited full proposals: 26 March 2024, 14:00 CET
Call results: October/November 2024
Earliest start of funded projects: End of 2024/beginning of 2025

Countries expected to participate in the call

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia*, Estonia, France*, Germany*, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

* Please note that the participation of Austria, Czechia, France and Germany in the Well-being call will be confirmed in the Call announcement.

Further Information

Call announcement:

• https://chanse.org/pre-announcement-of-the-call-enhancing-well-being-for-the-future

Full call topic description:

• https://chanse.org/wp-content/uploads/Well-being-Call-theme-description.pdf

Partner search tool:
In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, we offer applicants a partner search tool available here:

• www2.ncn.gov.pl/partners/chanse

This tool can be used by projects looking for partners and partners looking for projects.

For general questions please contact:

• wellbeing@ncn.gov.pl

DFG contact for national eligibility requirements:

• Dr. Stefan Koch
  phone: +49 228 885-2459
  stefan.koch@dfg.de
• Claudia Wünsche (for technical and administrative issues)
  phone: +49 228 885-2203
  claudia.wuensche@dfg.de

Please note the DFG’s data protection notice on research funding, which can be viewed and downloaded at:

• www.dfg.de/privacy_policy

If necessary, please also forward this information to those individuals whose data will be processed by the DFG due to their involvement in your project.

Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice, Code of Conduct:

• https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3923602

Information on the implementation of the Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice, Code of Conduct:

• https://wissenschaftliche-integritaet.de/en/code-of-conduct/implementation-of-the-guidelines

Contact of the DFG´s Research Integrity team (Good Research Practice):

• gwp@dfg.de