ELectronic Research Funding Information System Strategic Research Funding Enquiry with ELFI Dr. Heiko Stullich, Project Manager UK stullich@elfi.info ELectronic Research Funding Information System ARMA Annual Conference 6th June 2017, Liverpool

ELFI Gesellschaft für Forschungsdienstleistungen mbH What is ELFI? ELectronic Research Funding Information System / in german: ELektronische ForschungsförderInformationen ELFI Gesellschaft für Forschungsdienstleistungen mbH The first idea was hatched 1995 by Research Managers at the annual Research Managers‘ conference, first online 1998 after two years of development at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, in 2006 spin-off as private limited company with an annual subscription model.

What can ELFI offer you? exhaustive up-to-date information on research funding programmes, target dates, funding organizations, sponsors and application periods for all fields of scientific research a focused and user-friendly interface, filter funding opportunities according to your profile, see all new and modified funding programmes since your last visit, point out and send interesting programmes to colleagues.

Worldwide Funding European Sponsors First idea was hatched 1995 by Research Managers at the annual Research Managers‘ conference, first online 1998 after two years of development at the Ruhr-University of Bochum, in 2006 spin-off as private limited company with a annual subscription model

Overview German, Austrian and Swiss Sponsors Ministries, Project lead partners, Research societies, Private Foundations. Overview

British Sponsors Overview

ELFI User Search robots Team User interface Creation of profile, optionally: sub-profiles Search through websites relevant for research Team User interface Analyses the original documents Links to the original documents online Profile-based presentation of relevant funding information Data maintenance and preparation of content Quality control and publishing of modified content once per week Overview of content with „new“ and „modified“ items

Live presentation of the database http://www.elfi.info/index.php

Service to students, access free of charge

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