In March 2019 the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) established the Priority Programme "Variational Methods for Predicting Complex Phenomena in Engineering Structures and Materials'' (SPP 2256).
See
https://www.dfg.de for the press release
and
https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/info_wissenschaft_19_29/index.html ? for the official call for proposals.
A review meeting with reviewers and applicants will be held at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (close to Bonn) on 30 January 2020. A limited number of single and double rooms for the night from January 29 to January 30 is available on site and will be assigned according a first ask, first serve principle. All participants who do not wish to stay on site or who cannot be accommodated on site are kindly asked to make their own reservations in hotels close by.
The presentation of Dr. Frank Kiefer (DFG) during the organisational meeting on August 1st 2019 in Bonn can be found under the following link.
More information will be posted as it becomes available.