Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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Abbreviation	DFG
Predecessor	NG
Formation	1951
Purpose/focus	Science funding in Germany
Location	Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Germany
Region served	Germany
Official languages	German
President	Dr Matthias Kleiner
Main organ	General Assembly
Website	DFG

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; English: German Research Foundation) is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe.

Function

The DFG supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities through a large variety of grant programmes, prizes and by funding infrastructure. The self-governed organization is based in Bonn and financed by the German states and the federal government. Only Germany's leading research universities are members of the DFG.

Site of DFG in Bonn, Germany

Background

In 1937, the Notgemeinschaft der Wissenschaft (NG) was renamed the Deutsche Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung und Förderung der Forschung ("German Association for the Support and Advancement of Scientific Research"), for short known as the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). By the end of World War II in Germany, in 1945, the DFG was no longer active. In 1949, after formation of the Federal Republic, it was re-founded as the NG and again from 1951 as the DFG.^{[1] [2]}

Structure

The DFG is a member of the International Council for Science and has numerous counterparts around the globe such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Science Foundation (USA) and the Royal Academy (UK).

The DFG has several representative offices in Asia, North America and Europe and also maintains the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion, which was jointly founded by the DFG and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

See also

• Greenpilot
• Virtual Library of Musicology

Notes

1. ^ Hentschel, 1996, Appendix A
2. ^ Heilbron, 2000, pp. 90-92.

Bibliography

• Heilbron, J. L. The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science (Harvard, 2000) ISBN 0-674-00439-6
• Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996)

External links

• Official website

Video clips

• DFG Science TV YouTube channel