NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Chemistry and Chemical Process and Transport Systems
Funds joint US–German chemistry and chemical engineering projects through one proposal and one review, not two.
NSF and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany's research foundation, signed a memorandum of understanding on research cooperation. This is one of the routes built on top of it.
The practical problem it solves is duplication. Normally a US–German project means two proposals, two review processes and two sets of rules. Under a Lead Agency Opportunity, the team submits a single collaborative …
Collaborative US–German research in chemistry and in chemical, bioengineering, environmental and transport systems, submitted as one proposal under a single review, across the participating NSF and DFG divisions.
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