Working Together with Europe and Central Asia
As a political-economic area with free mobility, Europe enables the day-to-day networking of researchers. It is precisely this everyday aspect that requires consolidation of the very best conditions for joint research funding – also in respect to further develop the European Research Area (ERA).
In order to achieve this goal, the DFG works closely with its partner organisations throughout Europe and supports cooperation with Russia and the CIS states through its own office in Moscow. It aims to combine various bilateral and multilateral approaches and levels of research funding as well as enabling cross-border research cooperation in a flexible and science-driven manner to the highest level of quality.
In addition to the governments of European states and the institutions of the European Union, science itself is a driving force and must be supported in its independence. This is why, as a self-governing research organisation, the DFG strives to provide research policy impetus at European level.
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The regional area at a glance
In order to create the best possible framework conditions for researchers in Europe, the DFG operates on two levels:
- funding cross-border bilateral and multilateral research projects at the highest scientific level
- and representing the interests of science and research vis-à-vis political decision makers in Germany and Europe.
1. DFG Funding Activities in Europe
While research cooperation, as well as its funding within Europe, is well established, the DFG issues specific calls for proposals with some European partner organisations to fund cooperative research projects. In addition to the established funding collaborations and in order to tap into or intensify further opportunities for cooperation, the DFG organises events geared towards the further development of research activities and capacity building together with partners, especially in Eastern Europe and the former CIS states.
2. European Science Policy
The DFG’s research policy activities in Europe are pursued within three interrelated fields:
- the political framework established in the European Union
- the various science systems in Europe
- research relations within Europe
As one of the largest funding organisations in Europe, the DFG advocates the strengthening of knowledge-driven research and the diversity of the European research landscape and its national science systems in accordance with the subsidiarity principle. In order to achieve these goals, the DFG works at European level both directly with its European partner organisations and within the institutional framework of Science Europe.
Team Leader
Northern / Western / Southern Europe
- Cora Lafore
(Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Turkey) - Dorothea Fende
(Netherlands, Scandinavian countries, United Kingdom) - Stephanie Laß, Tel.: 0228 885 2442, stephanie.lass@dfg.d
(Austria, Switzerland) - Theresa Henn, Tel: 0228 885 3262, theresa.henn@dfg.d
(Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Scandinavian countries, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom)
Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe:
- Dr. Annina Lotterman
(Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary) - Julia Ilina, Tel.: 0228 885 3193, julia.ilina@dfg.d
(Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia, Western Balkan states) - Stephanie Laß, Tel.: 0228 885 2442, stephanie.lass@dfg.d
(Baltic states, Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Western Balkan states)
Eastern Europe, Southern Caucasus and Central Asia:
- Dr. Elisa Braeckevel
(Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan) - Mechthild Köhler, Tel.: 0228 885 4322, mechthild.koehler@dfg.d
(Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)