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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

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

6. British Sponsors
Overview

7. 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

10. Live presentation of the database

11. Service to students, access free of charge

12. Thank you for having me and thank you for your time!12