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guidelines, call
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Date posted: June 24, 2008
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 45.169
Questions?
Program questions should be directed to NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities at 202-606-8364
or
odh@neh.gov. Hearing-impaired
applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in the United States and the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V., DFG) are working together to offer support for digitization projects in the humanities. These grants provide funding for up to three years of development in any of the following areas:
Collaboration between U.S. and German partners is a key requirement for this grant category.
Each application must be sponsored by at least one eligible German individual or institution, and at least one U.S. institution (see Eligibility requirements below), and there must be a project director from each country. The partners will collaborate to write a single application package, which the U.S. partner will submit to the NEH (via Grants.gov) and the German partner will submit to the DFG via regular postal service (additional submission of a pdf version via e-mail is encouraged).
All potential applicants should note that, while NEH and DFG
each host a version of the guidelines on their respective Web sites, the requirements
for the application package as outlined in
,” are
identical. However, each set of guidelines contains some variations in grant administration procedures to be
followed by successful applicants. These variations reflect local administrative and organizational
requirements of each country.
Applications should explain the need for the U.S.-German partnership and provide workable solutions to some of
the issues of managing and developing transatlantic collections.
Proposals for digitization projects may include:
digitization of humanities collections that are relevant to
either or both scholarly communities for use in research and
higher education,
developing a detailed plan for the digitization of humanities collections that could benefit humanities research and performing a limited pilot digitization program to test shared infrastructure and procedures,
connecting existing split digitized collections and detailing suitable
transatlantic standards and communication strategies, and
creating a virtual archive or resource that would join
complementary materials (analog or digital) internationally.
Successful applicants will be expected to create and make publicly available a final report, or “white paper,” as one of their work products. This report should document their project, including lessons learned, so that others can benefit from their experience.
DFG/NEH Joint Digitization Project Grants may not be used for:
the digitization of materials that are the responsibility of an agency of the U.S. federal government,
the digitization of materials that are not made regularly accessible for research, education, or public programming,
the retrospective conversion of a library's general card catalog or the basic inventory of a museum's collections,
the creation of software or the purchase of computer systems for records management,
the maintenance or upgrading of computer systems,
the acquisition of collections, or
teaching and learning resources, tools, and reference works designed exclusively for classroom instruction.
Open Access and Grant Products
Both NEH (as a taxpayer-supported federal agency) and DFG (as a taxpayer-supported independent agency) endeavor to make the products of their grants available to the broadest possible audience. Our goal is for scholars, educators, students, and the international public to have ready and easy access to the wide range of NEH and DFG project outcomes. For projects that lead to the development of Web sites, all other considerations being equal, NEH and DFG give preference to those that provide free access to the public. Detailed guidance on access and dissemination matters can be found in the
dissemination section below.
The Endowment currently sponsors two agency-wide programs—We the People and Digital
Humanities—and one special initiative, Rediscovering Afghanistan.
Below is information on each.
The NEH encourages applications in these three areas of special interest.
Proposals will be evaluated through NEH’s established review process and will not receive special consideration.
We the People
To help Americans make sense of their history and of the world around them, NEH established the
We the People program.
NEH encourages applications that explore significant events and themes in our nation’s history and culture and
that advance knowledge of the principles that define America. To learn more about
We the People,
visit the program’s
Web site.
Digital Humanities
NEH welcomes applications for humanities projects that use digital technology or study its impact.
Digital technologies offer humanists new methods of conducting research, conceptualizing relationships,
and presenting scholarship. Digital humanities projects deploy these technologies and methods to
enhance our understanding of a topic or issue. NEH also is interested in projects that study
the impact of digital technology on the humanities—exploring the ways in which it changes
how we read, write, think, and learn.
Learn
more about the NEH Office of Digital Humanities.
Rediscovering Afghanistan
NEH invites applications for projects that focus on Afghanistan’s history and culture.
The special initiative is designed to promote research, education, and public programs
about Afghanistan and to encourage United States institutions to assist Afghanistan in efforts
to preserve and document its cultural resources.
Learn
more about the initiative.
Awards range from $100,000 to $350,000 (approximately 70,000 to 240,000 € ) for up to three years.
A representative institution from each country will receive its portion of the grant funds from
the funding agency in its country (NEH in the U.S.; DFG in Germany).
Projects must include a project director and institutional affiliation from each
country, so that funds may be distributed according to respective national laws and funding
guidelines. Successful applicants to NEH will be awarded a grant in outright funds or federal
matching funds, depending on the applicant's preference and the availability of NEH funds.
The amounts requested from each funding agency generally should not differ by more than 20%;
any disparity over 20% requires justification in the budget. See
Budget, below,
for more information.
Cost Sharing
Cost sharing is not required. NEH, however,
is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding.
In most cases, NEH grants cover no more than 50-60% of project costs.
DFG expects that participating institutions make a reasonable
contribution to the cost of the project. This contribution must
be specified in the proposal.
Applications must be submitted to both NEH and DFG. Applications
sent to only one agency will not be considered for review.
See "
How to Submit Your Application" for instructions
on submitting to each granting agency.
Ineligible applications will not be reviewed.
U.S. Partner Eligibility
Any U.S. nonprofit organization with IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status is eligible,
as are state and local governmental agencies and tribal governments. Grants
are not awarded to individuals.
NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants
whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on
characteristics of the federal entity's own authorized activities. This does not preclude
applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal
entities in their projects.
German Partner Eligibility
How to Prepare your Application
Application advice:
Prior to submitting a proposal, applicants are encouraged to contact program officers who can offer advice
about preparing the proposal. These comments are not part of the formal review process and have no bearing on
the final outcome of the proposal, but applicants in other programs have found them helpful in strengthening their
applications. You may submit a draft proposal to either one or both DFG or NEH
until 6 weeks prior to the deadline.
You will submit your single application to two funding agencies. Co-applicants should
collaborate in order to create this single application package. The application materials should be
exactly the same in the copies submitted to NEH and DFG, with the following exception: Applications
submitted to NEH through Grants.gov should list a primary Project Director affiliated with a
U.S.-based institution; applications submitted to the DFG should list a primary Project
Director (Hauptantragsteller) affiliated with a German institution.
Proposals should be submitted in English.
In exceptional cases and only following consultation
with the NEH and DFG Head Offices, proposals can also be submitted in German in addition to
the English version.
The application should consist of the following parts:
- Description of the project and its significance
Provide a one-page abstract written for a non-specialist audience, clearly explaining the project's importance to the humanities, its principal activities, and its expected results.
- Table of contents
List all parts of the application
and, beginning with the narrative, number all pages consecutively.
- Narrative
Limit the narrative to
12-15 single-sided and single-spaced pages. All pages should have one-inch
(2.54 centimeters) margins and the font size should be no smaller than
eleven point. Use appendices to provide supplementary material.
- Significance
Justify the importance of the project on the basis of its long-term
benefits to research, education, or public programming in the humanities.
For projects involving humanities collections, describe the nature,
size, and intellectual content of the collections and discuss their
relation to similar resources. Provide information about their current
and past use or potential future use, their present level of intellectual
description, the physical condition of the materials, and their storage
conditions. Explain how your project relates to existing resources,
discuss what this project will provide that they cannot, and define
the probable audiences.
- History, scope, and duration
Provide a concise history of the project, including information about
preliminary research or planning, financial support already received,
and resources or research facilities available. If a project requires
more than three years to complete, describe the scope and duration
of the entire project, but show clearly the specific accomplishments
or products intended in the period for which funding is requested.
For longer-term or digital projects, describe plans to sustain the
project at the end of the grant period. Explain how the project intends
to broaden its base of support to allow updates and maintenance without
additional NEH or DFG grants.
If the project has been previously supported by NEH or DFG, compare
the accomplishments in the current or past grant period with the intended
goals. List any products or publications in print or electronic form.
When appropriate, indicate print runs, sales, and royalties relating
to publications. In the case of existing online projects, include
the URL and provide use statistics and other relevant information.
- Methodology and standards
Project activities should conform to appropriate standards and accepted
professional practices. If your project's methodology departs from
usual standards and procedures, explain why the project's goals require
this approach and how the results would be compatible with other relevant
resources that follow existing standards.
All applications should include sample materials or reports that show
the final or anticipated form of the project or illustrate the experience
of the project's staff in doing comparable work. See Section 7: Appendices,
below.
Include an outline of the risks that could pose a threat to the project’s
success, including their likelihood and severity, and explain how
you would prevent or manage them if they occurred. Discuss any intellectual
property or privacy issues that might affect the availability of the
materials and whether permissions and informed consents have been
obtained.
Describe standards and best practices that will be followed to ensure
longevity of digital products and their interoperability with other
resources and related materials. Describe the hardware and software
to be employed and provide specific information about the following:
Preparation and processing
of material
Describe how the
material will be prepared for processing and how it will be processed,
e.g., digital capture, keyboarding, optical character recognition,
or conversion from another electronic format. Discuss the methods
for formatting the material and ensuring quality control. Where appropriate,
indicate the levels of resolution, compression, image enhancement,
and accuracy of textual conversion or transcription required to achieve
the project's goals. For text with markup, justify the choice of tagging
scheme and the level of the markup.
Organization of and
access to material
Explain the organization
of the digitized material or database, including file structure, system
capabilities, user access, and documentation. When appropriate, indicate
the metadata scheme(s) that will be used to describe the materials
(e.g., MARC, Dublin Core, EAD, METS), and explain the rationale for
the choice(s). Provide information about metadata creation and controlled
vocabularies (if applicable), and use an appendix to display sample
data entry sheets, records, and screen displays. When appropriate,
discuss the compatibility of the proposed technical framework with
the practices of the user community. Discuss provisions for ensuring
that your resource can be discovered by a search engine or become
part of an aggregated resource such as a digital library, cooperative
portal, or clearinghouse, or become integrated with other related
resources.
Storage, maintenance,
and protection of data
Describe the institution's
plans for storing, maintaining, and protecting the data, and, where
applicable, for the preservation or other disposition of the original
source material. Discuss both the technical and the administrative
provisions for ensuring the preservation of long-term access to the
information. Explain how the data will be archived (independent of
the processing or delivery software and interface) to migrate them
to future media and formats. Document the institution's capability
and commitment to update and provide long-term access to the materials.
- Work Plan
Describe the work plan in detail, including the work to be done by
each partner in the collaboration. A schedule indicating benchmarks
of accomplishment during each stage of the project should be included
in the appendices.
- Nature of Collaboration and Staff
Describe the nature and strengths of the intended collaboration and
the methods planned to ensure the partnership coordination.
Identify the project's staff, including consultants, and describe
their duties and qualifications for the specific responsibilities
assigned to them. Indicate the amount of time that the principal members
of the project's staff will devote to the project. If the project
has an advisory board, explain its function. Provide two-page résumés
for major project staff and all consultants in the appendices.
- Dissemination
Explain how the results of the project will be disseminated and why
these means are appropriate to the subject matter and intended audience.
Grantees should provide broad access to all grant products through
the Internet, on-site use, interlibrary loan, or duplication of materials
at cost, insofar as the conditions of the materials and intellectual
property rights allow. We strongly encourage projects that offer free
public access to online resources. All other considerations being
equal, preference will be given to projects that provide free, online
access to digital materials produced with grant funds.
- History of awards
If the
project has received previous support from any federal or nonfederal sources,
including NEH or DFG, list on one page the sources, dates, and amounts
of these funds. If the project has a long history of support, the sources
and contributions may be grouped and summarized.
- Consultants and advisory board members
List
consultants to the project, members of the project's advisory board (if
there is one), and authors of letters of support (if provided).
- Budget
U.S.
partners must prepare a budget detailing costs and the requested amount
from NEH, using the
NEH
budget form (14-page PDF). German partners must prepare a budget detailing
costs and the requested amount from DFG following the guidelines outlined
in
DFG
Document 12.01. The combined total amount requested must fall within
the limits stated in the Award Information section above: $100,000 to
$350,000 (approximately 70,000 to 240,000 € ).
Applicants
should endeavor to ensure that the budget amounts requested from each
agency differ no more than 20% in order to maintain as closely as possible
an equitable distribution of funds. In some rare cases, budgets may have
more than 20% difference in requested costs, but such cases should include
a justification. For example: a German institution could request $110,000
(approximately €63,000), and the U.S. institution could request $100,000.
However, requests of $120,000 and $75,000 respectively would differ by
more than 20% and thus would require justification. If applicants anticipate
that the amounts of funds requested from NEH and DFG respectively will
differ by more than 20%, it is strongly recommended that they contact
agency representatives to discuss their proposals.
For
any outsourced work, third-party contractor costs should be included in
the budget category "Services." Attach a complete itemization of these
costs to the budget form. If there is more than one contractor, each one
must be listed on the budget form and the costs itemized separately.
To
the maximum extent practical, all procurement contracts must be made through
an open and free competition. Awards shall be made to the bidder or offeror
whose bid or offer is responsive to the solicitation and is most advantageous
to the recipient, considering price, quality, and other factors. Applicants
must justify procurement contracts in excess of $100,000 that are not
awarded by competitive bids or offers.
Permanent
equipment may be purchased for a project if an analysis demonstrates that
it is the most economical and practical alternative to leasing. Permanent
equipment is defined as nonexpendable personal property costing $5,000
or more and having a useful life of more than one year.
The following applies to U.S. Partners only:
Consistent with the Buy American Act (41
U.S.C. 10a-c and Public Law 105-277), grantees and sub-recipients who
purchase equipment and products with grant funds should purchase only
American-made equipment and products.
- Appendices
Use appendices to provide:
- a work plan,
- sample materials and reports,
- comparative offers for work to be outsourced (e.g., to private firms for digitization work),
-
brief résumés (no longer than two pages) for staff with major responsibilities
for the project's implementation and for consultants to the project,
-
job descriptions for any additional staff who will be hired specifically to work on the project, and
-
letters of commitment from outside participants and cooperating institutions.
How to Submit Your Application via Grants.gov
Register or Verify Registration with Grants.gov
Applications for this program must be submitted
via
Grants.gov. Before using Grants.gov for
the first time, each organization must register with the Web site to create an
institutional profile. Once registered, your organization can then apply for
any government grant on the Grants.gov Web site.
If your organization has already registered and you have verified that your registration is still valid, you may skip this step. If not, please see our handy
checklist to guide you through the registration process.
We strongly recommend you complete your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline, as it takes time for your registration to be processed.
If you have problems registering with Grants.gov, call the Grants.gov help desk at 1-800-518-4726.
Download the Free Adobe Reader software
To fill out a Grants.gov application package, you will need to download
and install the current version of Adobe Reader. The latest version of Adobe Reader,
which is designed to function with PCs and Macintosh computers using a variety of popular
operating systems, is available at no charge from the Adobe Web site
(
www.adobe.com).
Once installed, the current version of Adobe Reader will allow you to view and fill out Grants.gov
application packages for any federal agency. If you have a problem installing Adobe Reader, it
may be because you do not have permission to install a new program on your computer. Many
organizations have rules about installing new programs. If you encounter a problem, contact
your system administrator.
Download the Application Package
You can save your application package at any time by clicking the
“Save” button at the top of your screen. Tip: If you choose to
save your application package before you have completed it, you may
receive an error message indicating that your application is not valid if
all of the forms have not been completed. Click “OK” to save your work and
complete the package another time. You can also use e-mail to share the
application package with members of your organization or project team.
The application package contains three forms that you must complete in
order to submit your application:
- Application for Federal Domestic Assistance - Short
Organizational (SF-424 Short)—this form asks for basic
information about the project, the project director, and the
institution.
- Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs—this form asks for additional information about the project director,
the institution, and the budget.
- NEH Attachment Form—this form allows you to
attach your narrative, budget, and the other parts of your application.
How to Fill Out the SF-424 Short Form
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please
provide the following information:
- Name of Federal Agency: This will be filled in
automatically with “National Endowment for the Humanities.”
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: This
will be filled in automatically with the CFDA number and title of the
NEH program to which you are applying.
- Date Received: Please leave blank.
- Funding Opportunity Number: This will be filled in
automatically.
- Applicant Information: In this section, please
supply the name, address, employer/taxpayer identification number
(EIN/TIN), DUNS number, Web site address, and choose the “type” that best describes your
institution (you only need to select one).
If your institution is located, for example, in the 5th Congressional
District of your state, put a “5.” If your institution doesn’t have a
congressional district (e.g., it is in a state or U.S. territory that
doesn't have districts or is in a foreign country), put a “0” (zero).
All institutions applying to federal grant programs are required to
provide a DUNS number, issued by Dun & Bradstreet, as part of their
application. Project directors should contact their institution’s grant
administrator or chief financial officer to obtain their institution’s
DUNS number. Federal grant applicants can obtain a DUNS number free of
charge by calling 1-866-705-5711. (
Learn more about the
requirement.)
- Project Information: Provide the title of your
project. Your title should be brief, descriptive, and substantive. It
should also be informative to a non-specialist audience. Provide a brief
description of your project. The description should be written for a
non-specialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed
work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. List the
starting and ending dates for your project.
- Project Director: Provide the Social Security
Number, name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone and
fax numbers for the project director.
Disclosure of Social Security
Numbers is optional. NEH uses them for internal application processing
only.
- Primary Contact/Grants Administrator: Provide the
contact information for the official responsible for the administration
of the grant (e.g., negotiating the project budget and ensuring
compliance with the terms and conditions of the award). This person is
often a grants or research officer or a sponsored programs official.
Normally, the Institutional Grants Administrator is not the same person
as the Project Director. If the project director and the grant
administrator are the same person, skip to item 9.
- Authorized Representative: Provide the contact
information for the Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) who is
submitting the application on behalf of the institution. This person,
often called an “Authorizing Official,” is typically the president, vice
president, executive director, provost, or chancellor. In order to
become an AOR, the person must be designated by the institution’s
E-Business Point of Contact. For more information, please consult the
Grants.gov user guide, which is available at: www07.grants.gov/applicants/app_help_reso.jsp.
How to Fill Out the Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs
Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please
provide the following information:
- Project Director: Use the pull-down menu to select
the major field of study for the project director.
- Institution Information: Use the pull-down menu to
select your type of institution.
- Project Funding: Enter your project funding
information. Note that applicants for Challenge Grants should use the
right column only; applicants to all other programs should use the left
column only.
- Application Information: Indicate whether the
proposal will be submitted to other NEH grant programs, government
agencies, or private entities for funding. If so, please indicate where
and when. NEH frequently cosponsors projects with other funding sources.
Providing this information will not prejudice the review of your
application.
For Type of
Application, check “new” if the application requests a new
period of funding, whether for a new project or the next phase of a
project previously funded by NEH. Check “supplement” if the application
requests additional funding for a current NEH grant. If requesting a
supplement, provide the current grant number (applicants should discuss
their request with a NEH program officer before submitting such an
application).
For Project Field
Code, use the pull-down menu to select the humanities field of
the project. If the project is multidisciplinary, choose the field that
corresponds to the project’s predominant discipline.
How to Use the NEH Attachment Form
You will use this form to attach the various files that make up your application.
Your attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). We cannot accept attachments in their original word processing or spreadsheet formats. If you don't already have software to convert your files into PDFs, there are many low-cost and free software packages available. To learn more, go to
http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsgov/pdf.html.
When you open the NEH Attachment Form, you will find 15 attachment buttons, labeled “Attachment 1” through “Attachment 15.” By clicking on a button, you will be able to choose the file from your computer that you wish to attach. You must name and attach your files in the proper order so that we can identify them. Please attach the proper file to the proper button as listed below:
ATTACHMENT 1: To this button, please attach your description of the project and its significance.
Please name the file “projectdescription.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 2: To this button, please attach your table of contents. Please name the file “contents.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 3: To this button, please attach your narrative. Please
name the file “narrative.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 4: To this button, please attach your history of grants. Please name the file “granthistory.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 5: To this button, please attach your list of project consultants and advisory board members. Please name the file “consultants.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 6: To this button, please attach your NEH budget. Please
name the file “NEHbudget.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 7: To this button, please attach your DFG budget. Please
name the file “DFGbudget.pdf”.
ATTACHMENT 8: To this button, please attach your appendices. Please
name the file “appendices.pdf”.
Use the remaining buttons to attach any additional materials (if appropriate).
Please give these attachments meaningful file names and ensure that they are PDFs.
Uploading Your Application to Grants.gov
When you have completed all three forms, use the right-facing arrow to move each of them to the “Mandatory Documents for Submission”
column. Once they have been moved over, the “Submit” button will activate. You are now ready to upload your application package
to Grants.gov.
During the registration process, your institution designated one or more AORs (Authorized Organization Representatives).
These AORs typically work in your institution’s Sponsored Research Office or Grants Office. When you have completed your
application, you must ask your AOR to submit the application, using the special username and password that was assigned to
him or her during the registration process.
To submit your application, your computer must have an active connection to the Internet. To begin the submission process, click the “submit” button. A page will appear asking you to sign and submit your application. At this point, your AOR will enter his or her username and password. When you click the “sign and submit application” button, your application package will be uploaded to Grants.gov. Please note that it may take some time to upload your application package depending on the size of your
files and the speed of your Internet connection.
After the upload is complete, a confirmation page, which includes a tracking number, will
appear indicating that you have submitted your application to Grants.gov. Please print this
page for your records. The AOR will also receive a confirmation e-mail.
NEH suggests that you submit your application no later than 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. That way, should you encounter a
technical problem of some kind, you will still have time to contact the
Grants.gov help desk for support. The Grants.gov help desk is open Monday
to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time at 1-800-518-4726. You
can also send an e-mail to
support@grants.gov.
Deadlines
Applications must be received by Grants.gov by October 15, 2008. Grants.gov will date and time
stamp your application after it is fully uploaded. Applications submitted after that date will not
be accepted. Supplementary materials must also arrive at NEH by October 15, 2008,
to be considered as part of the application.
How to Submit Your Application to DFG
Signed applications should be sent in duplicate by regular postal mail to the DFG Head Offices,
III-LIS, Kennedyallee 40, 53170 Bonn. Applicants are requested to send an additional version of
the application as a pdf document to one of the DFG email addresses specified under contacts.
Reviewers involved in the process will be asked to apply the following criteria in assessing applications:
Project Aims: the project's intellectual contribution, including how it will increase the understanding of the humanities
Project Plans: the project's methodological soundness, including its adherence to accepted standards and professional practices; the viability, efficiency, and productivity of the work plan, including staffing and equipment; the qualifications of the project's staff; and the appropriateness of the project's budget
Partnership: the degree to which the proposal demonstrates an openness and willingness of the institutions to work in an international partnership and the potential for an extended partnership beyond the funding period
Open Access and Dissemination: the project's plan for providing access to grant products and disseminating project outcomes
All other considerations being equal, preference will be given to projects that provide free, online access to digital materials produced with grant funds.
Late applications will not be reviewed.
Review and Selection Process
Each proposal submitted to the NEH and DFG will be evaluated by at least two independent reviewers. A panel of peer reviewers will be selected jointly by NEH and DFG. Reviewers will read each application and advise NEH and DFG about the application's merits. DFG and NEH staff will comment on matters of fact or on significant issues that otherwise would be missing from these reviews and then will jointly prepare recommendations to the DFG Scientific Library Services and Information Systems Committee and the National Council on the Humanities. The NEH Chairman takes into account the advice provided by the review process (on the basis of the recommendations formulated by the joint DFG/NEH Panel), by the National Council on the Humanities and, by law, makes all final NEH funding decisions. The DFG Joint Committee takes into account the advice provided by the review process (on the basis of the recommendations formulated by the joint DFG/NEH Panel) and the DFG Scientific Library Services and Information Systems Committee and, by DFG-statutes, makes all final DFG funding decisions. DFG and NEH will notify applicants in June 2009 whether proposals have been funded.
The information below is for the U.S. partner in the project. German partners are encouraged to review the
DFG guidelines for award administration information specific to institutions in Germany.
Award notices
Applicants will be notified by e-mail of the decision by late June 2009.
Institutional grants administrators and project directors of successful applications will
also receive at that time award documents by mail. Applicants may obtain the reasons for
funding decisions on their applications by sending an e-mail message to
odh@neh.gov.
Administrative requirements
Award conditions
Reporting requirements
A schedule of report due dates will be included with the award document.
If you have questions about the program, contact:
NEH Contact for U.S. Partners
If you have questions about the program, contact the Office of Digital
Humanities staff at
odh@neh.gov. Applicants wishing to speak to a staff
member by telephone should provide in the e-mail message a telephone number
and a preferred time to call.
If you need help using Grants.gov, contact:
DFG Contact for German Partners
Dr. Ralf Goebel
Scientific Library Services and Information Systems (Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme LIS) / Humanities and Social Sciences Division
Tel. +49 228 885-2358
ralf.goebel@dfg.de
This information is for the U.S. partner in the project. German partners are encouraged to review the
DFG
guidelines for other information
specific to institutions in Germany.
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Information in these guidelines is solicited under the authority of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 20 U.S.C. 956. The principal purpose for which the information will be used is to process the grant application. The information may also be used for statistical research, analysis of trends, and Congressional oversight. Failure to provide the information may result in the delay or rejection of the application.
Application Completion Time
The Office of Management and Budget requires federal agencies to supply information on the time needed to complete forms and also to invite comments on the paperwork burden. NEH estimates the average time to complete this application is fifteen hours per response. This estimate includes time for reviewing instructions, researching, gathering, and maintaining the information needed, and completing and reviewing the application.
Please send any comments regarding the estimated completion time or any other aspect of this application, including suggestions for reducing the completion time, to the Office of Publications, National Endowment for the Humanities,
Washington, D.C. 20506; and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (3136-0134),
Washington, D.C. 20503. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond
to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB number.