DIP - Deutsch-Israelischen Projektkooperation - German Israeli Project Cooperation

The DIP program is designed to support collaborative research between German and Israeli scientists, in all fields of study. Every year 2-4 projects are competitively selected for funding, at funding levels of up to € 1.655 million per project for 5 years.

The quality and significance of the research work and the strength of the scientific cooperation including the exchange of scientists, in particular young researchers (PhDs/Postdocs), are the main criteria for review and selection.

Researchers from eight academic institutes in Israel are eligible to submit. Each institute can submit up to two proposals annually.

At the Technion, the office of the Executive Vice President for Research (MANLAM) conducts internal scientific reviews of pre-proposals.

Pre‐proposal submission procedure

24/12/2023 - A short, informal title and abstract

should be sent to ra-tec@trdf.technion.ac.il, to allow timely preparation of the review. These abstracts are not binding and do not enter into the review process.

31/12/2023 - Pre‐proposals submission (send to ra-tec@trdf.technion.ac.il):

Pre‐proposals should be written in legible font (min. 11 pt.), be short and concise, and should explain the main idea of the project. These should include:

• Front Page: Title, PI details: name, affiliation, contact information (Israeli and German)
• Proposal body: between 5 and 10 pages;
• References (up to 3 pages);
• Collaboration information: mode of collaboration, prior collaboration, prior funding, if relevant (up to one page);
• Short CV (up to 4 pages) for each partner + a list of publications from the past 5 years;
• Up to one‐page explanation in lay language why the proposal describes breakthrough high impact science instead of incremental science.
• Budget information is not required for the pre‐proposal

31/01/2024 - Announcement of the preliminary selection results.

18/03/2024 ‐ Submission of full proposals: The two selected teams will submit full proposals to the Research Authority at the Technion.

Instructions and forms for full proposal: www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/international_cooperation/german_israeli_cooperation

Funded projects overview:

www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/internationales/dip_gefoerderte_projekte.pdf