NSF-DFG Lead Agency Opportunity in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (NSF-DFG SaTC)
In the course of the joint National Science Foundation (NSF) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Research Workshop on Cybersecurity and Machine Learning, held in May 2021, several relevant topics and research directions were identified and published in a joint report (see link below). To facilitate the support of collaborative work between US groups and their German counterparts, NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) and DFG’s Division of Mathematics and Engineering Sciences 2 (II-MING) have recently agreed on a lead agency activity in “Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace” with NSF acting as the lead agency. US researchers are invited to refer to the Dear Colleague Letter NSF 23-051 (see link below).
US-German collaborators are invited to submit joint proposals in the areas described in NSF’s “Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)” program (see link below). Joint proposals should contain detailed information about the mode and intrinsic necessity of collaboration between the US and the German side.
With NSF being the lead agency, proposals submitted under this opportunity will be reviewed by NSF only and along with other proposals submitted to the SaTC program in accordance with the standard NSF merit review criteria and additional review criteria as specified in the SaTC solicitation. The result of the review process will be shared between the agencies to make final decisions on this basis. Please note that there are no separate funds on the DFG side either and proposals will compete with all other proposals in the “Sachbeihilfe/Research Grants Programme”. Proposals selected for funding will be funded by NSF on the US side, and by DFG on the German side.
