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The NEH/DFG Symposia and Workshops Program is a joint funding opportunity run by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Germany to strengthen collaboration in the digital humanities. The program is designed specifically to support planning and convening activities rather than long-term research projects, with funding intended for up to two bilateral symposia or workshops focused on digital humanities topics. At its core, the program is meant to bring together people who work at the intersection of humanities research and digital methods and infrastructure, and to use in-person (or organized) convenings to build shared approaches, networks, and skills across the U.S. and German digital humanities communities.

A central requirement is genuine U.S.-German partnership. Each proposal must be built and written collaboratively by partners in both countries, and the structure of the application reflects that: there must be one eligible U.S. sponsoring institution and one German individual partner, and the project must name a project director from each country. The intent is not simply international participation as an add-on, but a clearly justified bilateral collaboration where the U.S. and German sides both play essential roles in shaping the agenda, selecting participants, and producing outcomes that matter to both communities. Beyond describing the scholarly goals, applicants are expected to explain why the partnership itself is necessary and what the collaboration enables that could not be achieved as effectively within a single national context.

The types of activities supported are symposia and workshops in digital humanities, broadly understood. This includes gatherings that help develop or evaluate methods, tools, standards, workflows, and shared research practices relevant to humanities questions handled with digital techniques. The program explicitly encourages participation from a wide range of professional roles tied to digital humanities work, including established scholars, junior researchers, scientists, librarians, information professionals, and others engaged in humanities projects. In practice, that emphasis signals that successful convenings should not be limited to one narrow discipline or career stage, but should be designed to cross boundaries between research, collections, data stewardship, and technical implementation.

Administratively, the partners prepare a single, unified application package, but submit it in parallel to their respective national funders. The U.S. partner submits the application to NEH through Grants.gov, while the German partner submits the same application to DFG using postal service (with an additional PDF submission by email encouraged). While NEH and DFG each publish the guidelines on their own websites, the required application components are aligned and identical in the section covering application and submission information; differences mainly show up later in how grants are administered once awarded, reflecting the distinct rules and procedures in each country.

From a funding standpoint, this is a discretionary grant program under the humanities funding category (CFDA 45.169, Promotion of the Humanities), administered through NEH's Office of Digital Humanities. The opportunity anticipates making around 10 awards. The listed award ceiling is $100,000 and there is no stated award floor, and the program does not require cost sharing or matching funds. Eligible U.S. applicants include a wide range of public and nonprofit entities, such as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status, and various levels of government (state, county, city/township, special district), as well as federally recognized Native American tribal governments. The timeline in the posted announcement shows a posted date of August 5, 2010, with an application deadline of November 16, 2010, and an archive date of December 16, 2010.

For applicants looking for help or clarification, the program directs questions to the NEH Office of Digital Humanities staff via odh@neh.gov, and notes that those who want a phone conversation should email their phone number and preferred time to be called. The program announcement also provides an NEH webpage link for additional details: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/DFGBSW.html.

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