New DFG funding initiative
The German Research Foundation has published a new funding initiative for securing endangered data sets and data resilience.
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At the end of October, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced a new funding initiative aimed at preserving secure endangered data repositories and strengthening data resilience.
Between 2025 and approximately 2027, the DFG will provide funding to enhance the resilience of data infrastructures and to secure endangered data repositories and research results from foreign repositories, making them permanently accessible to the German research community.
The initiative supports projects that, for example, build storage capacities, provide personnel resources for data acquisition, curation, or subject-specific processing, address legal issues, or promote the integration of secured data into national and European structures. Funding may also be provided for the development of frameworks and technologies that enable better integration of relevant repositories and infrastructures into supraregional or European networks and cloud environments.
More information about the new funding initiative and the application procedure can be found on the DFG website at https://www.dfg.de/en/research-funding/funding-opportunities/programmes/infrastructure/lis/lis-funding-initiative-data-repositoriesExternal link