Interdisciplinary Program on Application Software towards Exascale Computing for Global Scale Issues
The G8 Research Councils Initiative on Multilateral Research Funding is a coordinated effort to support multilateral research partnerships. The programme aims to support excellent research on topics of global relevance which can best be tackled by a multinational approach. Funding should help researchers to cooperate in consortia consisting of partners from at least three of the participating countries.
The initiative is supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the French National Research Agency (ANR), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), the Research Councils of the United Kingdom (RCUK), and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), referred to as the Funding Organisations.
The Interdisciplinary Program on Application Software towards Exascale Computing for Global Scale Issues is the first of three anticipated annual calls. Full details of the ambitions of this research programme can be found in the Call for Proposals available via the DFG website (the DFG is acting as the Call Secretariat).
Additional guidance for researchers submitting via RCUK is available here 
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Research projects will be selected in a two-step procedure. Short “preliminary proposals” have to be submitted by interested consortia by 7 May 2010. These will be considered by a scientific review panel that will encourage submission of full proposals by 25 August 2010.
The total budget for this call is approximately 10 million € over three years. Funding can be provided for projects lasting for two or three years and it is expected that 8-10 research consortia will be funded in this call.
Further information about the call and submission process can be found on the DFG website including the procedures for other Funding Organisations participating in the call.
Important Dates
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION of “Preliminary Proposals”: 7 May 2010
NOTIFICATION FOR SUBMISSION of “Full proposal”: 28 June 2010
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMISSION for “Full proposal”: 25 August 2010
Note: All closing dates will be midnight GMT