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2.2 Funding

In 1998, the following financial resources were available from the Free State of Bavaria:
 

  • Investment Funding: 
 
1,598,330 DM
  • Visiting Scientists' Program: 
 
855,000 DM
  • Consumables: 
 
776,850 DM

The total amount of national/international external funding ("Drittmittel") for ongoing research projects in 1998 was 1,481,200 DM (Positions: 1,140,000 DM, equipment, consumables and travel grants: 341,200 DM).
 

positions
equipment, consumables, travel grants
total
  • DFG 
515,000 DM
66,300 DM
581,300 DM
  • AvH 
151,800 DM
 
151,800 DM
  • DAAD 
-----
5,400 DM
5,400 DM
  • Others 
93,500 DM
36,700 DM
130,200 DM
  • EU 
379,700 DM
232,800 DM
612,500 DM
     
1,481,200 DM

(AvH = Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; DFG = German Science Foundation; EU = European Union; FCI = Funds of the Chemical Industry; DAAD = German Academic Exchange Program, FOK = Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe; RPR = Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, France)

In the following only the BGI part of the funding is listed in cases where joint projects involve other research institutions. Principal investigators and duration of the grants are listed in brackets.
 

Funding
institution
Project, Funding
Total Project Funding
DFG
Di 431/3-3 (D.B. Dingwell – 4.97-3.98)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa, 12 months
 
  BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  Consumables:
20,000 DM
 
DFG
Di 431/8-2 (D.B. Dingwell – 3.98-2.99)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
16,000 DM
  Other funding:
6,200 DM
 
DFG
Di 431/12-1 (D.B. Dingwell – 5.97-4.98)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  studentische Hilfskraft, 12 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
5,000 DM
 
DFG
Di 431/14-1 (D.B. Dingwell – 11.97-10.98)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  Travel funding:
16,100 DM
 
DFG
Di 431/15-1 (D.B. Dingwell – 7.98-6.99)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months)
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
7,000 DM
 
DFG
Di 431/16-1 (D.B. Dingwell – 7.98-6.99)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
20,000 DM
 
DFG
Pa 346/17-1 (H. Palme, D.B. Dingwell, S. Chakraborty - 10.98-1.99)
 
  Positions: studentische Hilfskraft, 4 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
7,000 DM
 
DFG
Ke 501/2-2 (H. Keppler – 8.97-7.99)
 
  Positions:  BAT IIa, 24 months
 
    BAT IIa/2, 24 months
 
    BAT IIa/2, 18 months
 
  Consumables:
51,900 DM
 
DFG
Ke 501/4-1 (H. Keppler – 9.98-8.99)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  Consumables:
16,200 DM
 
DFG
La 830/4-1 (F. Langenhorst – 1.98-12.98)
 
  Consumables:
38,000 DM
  Travel funding:
1,100 DM
 
DFG
MC 3/7-1 (C.A. McCammon, F. Seifert, P. van Aken - 1998-2000)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 36 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
15,500 DM
 
DFG
BR 1823/1 (P.J. O'Brien – 1.98-12.99)
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
20,900 DM
 
DFG
Ru 437/5-1 (D.C. Rubie, B.T. Poe – 7.98-6.99)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
10,000 DM
  Other funding:
12,000 DM
 
DFG
Se 444/7 (A. Sebald – 11.93-7.2000)
 
  Purchase grant:
606,000 DM
 
DFG
Se 444/7-3 (A. Sebald – 12.97-7.98)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 8 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
4,000 DM
 
DFG
Se 444/7-4 (A. Sebald – 8.98-7.2000)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 24 months
 
  Consumables and travel funding:
26,000 DM
  Purchase grant:
40,000 DM
 
DFG
Se 444/12-2 and Ec 168/2
 
  (A. Sebald, H. Eckert/Münster, joint project –10.97-9.99)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa, 24 months
 
  Consumables:
15,500 DM
 
DFG
Se 444/13-2 (A. Sebald – 2.98-1.2000)
 
  Positions: BAT IIa/2, 12 months
 
 
DAAD
Travel funding (D.B. Dingwell, J. Marti, Barcelona)
6,000 DM
 
DAAD
PROCOPE (A. Deutsch, F. Langenhorst, U. Schärer)
 
  Travel funding:
1,500 DM
 
DFG
Travel funding (C.A. McCammon; R.J. Angel; M. Bechmann, S. Dusold, J. Kümmerlen, A. Sebald)
14,150 DM
 
EU
Climate and Environment – FLOW
 
  (D.B. Dingwell, Coordinator)
208,000 ECU
 
EU
Climate and Environment - EXPLODE (D.B. Dingwell)
118,000 ECU
 
EU
TMR-programme (D.B. Dingwell - 10.96-9.99)
 
  Positions/Consumables:
126,000 ECU
 
EU
TMR-programme (H. Keppler - 10.96-9.99)
 
  Positions/Consumables:
126,000 ECU
 
EU
ALFA (C.A. McCammon)
 
  Travel funding:
3,750 ECU
 
EU
"Human Capital and Mobility" programme
 
  "Access to Large-Scale Scientific Facilities"
 
  (D.C. Rubie - 3.94-3.98)
800,000 ECU
 
EU
TMR-Access to Large-Scale Facilities
 
  (D.C. Rubie - 4.98-4.2001)
524,000 ECU
 
EU
TMR Fellowships
 
  T. Fliervoet (6.96-5.98)
135,432 ECU
  L. Kerschhofer (8.96-1.98)
60,232 ECU
 
EU
TMR Network Phase transformations
 
  (F. Seifert - 1997-2000)
385,605 DM
 
FCI
(A. Sebald)
3,000 DM
 
FCI
(F. Seifert) 
 
  Consumables: (10.97-9.99)
35,000 DM
  Equipment:  (12.97-12.99)
50,000 DM
 
FOK
Viscosity of Corium melts (D.B. Dingwell) (9.96-5.98)
45,000 DM
 
FOK
Very high temperature oxide melt viscosities 
 
  (D.B. Dingwell) (6.97 – 5.98)
35,000 DM
 
FOK
Viscosities of Al-rich oxide melts
 
  (D.B. Dingwell)  (10.97 – 3.99)
18,000 DM
 
RPR
Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, France (A. Sebald)
 
  Unrestricted grant (position and consumables)
90,000 DM

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