The pursuit of scientific goals recognises no geographic boundaries and as such, international collaborations are today more the norm than the exception. To facilitate the support of collaborative work between US groups and their German counterparts, the Civil Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation Division of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Division of Engineering of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) have agreed on a lead-agency activity in Advanced Manufacturing in 2020. US researchers are invited to read the Dear Colleague Letter NSF 22-013. In this information for researchers the extension of the existing cooperation NSF’s Advanced Manufacturing programme and DFG’s review board 401 Production Technology by DFG’s review board 405 Materials Engineering is announced.