DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program

DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) and The National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and are working together to offer support for digitization
projects in the humanities.

1. 2008 Call for Joint Digitization Projects:

These grants provide funding for up to three years of development in any of the following areas: (i) new
digitization projects and pilot projects, (ii) the addition of important materials to existing
digitization projects and (iii) the development of related infrastructure to support international
digitization work and the use of those digitized resources.

Guidelines for this call are available here: <http://www.dfg.de/forschungsfoerderung/wissenschaftliche_infrastruktur/lis/download/neh_dfg_bdhp_guidelines.pdf>

The receipt deadline is 15 October 2008.

2. 2008 Call for Bilateral Symposia and Workshops: Proposals for Bilateral Symposia or Workshops can
focus on any area of the digital humanities, including, but not limited to: (i) capacity building or
networking workshops to prepare for future collaborative humanities projects based around a single
theme, technology, media form or scholarly discipline, (ii) comparing and discussing the needs of
researchers in both the U.S. and Germany and their uses of digitized resources, and (iii) exploring
possible and existing use of information technology in the humanities in both communities.

Guidelines for this call will be available in late-August. Please contact Dr. Max Voegler
(max.voegler@...<mailto:max.voegler@...>)
to receive a copy by email when they are available.

The receipt for deadlines has been extended to 2 November 2008.