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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) would like to intensify cooperation between researchers from Taiwan and Germany. For this purpose, the funding instruments of the DFG and its Taiwanese partner organisation, the National Science Council (NSC), are to be even better coordinated with one another and their interactions optimised. The objective is to find simpler means by which the existing potential of both countries can, in the future, be transferred into excellent research and synergy effects more visibly utilised.

The DFG has cooperated closely with the Taiwanese NSC since 1987. As a result, the DFG now offers researchers from Germany the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues in Taiwan in all of its programmes. In doing so, it places high value on the early inclusion of young researchers in bilateral projects, especially through joint International Research Training Groups, which the DFG funds in collaboration with Taiwan.

To simplify the start of a German-Taiwanese cooperation project, the International Affairs Division of the DFG has, since the beginning of 2009, also offered a new funding mechanism for the initiation and intensification of bilateral cooperation. In this programme, applicants wishing to establish or strengthen scientific cooperation with international partners can be funded for a period of one year.

Further information: www.dfg.de