Research Grant Opportunities for Collaboration with CEE/ NIS

Our office, the Office for Central Europe and Eurasia of the National Research Council, awards grants to American scientists wishing to host or visit their colleagues from Central/Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Newly Independent States (NIS). Please keep in mind that applications for all grants must be submitted by the American scientist.

If you are interested in our programs, please access our web-site at www.nationalacademies.org/oia. Additional information and application forms are available on the web-site. I have included a brief description of our program, but for more details- I strongly encourage you and your collaborator to visit our web-site and then contact our office if you still have questions. We would also greatly appreciate it if you would forward this information to interested and appropriate parties at your institution.

Regards,

Laurel Doerfer
The National Academies/NRC
Office for Central Europe and Eurasia

Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering (COBASE)

Project Development and Initiation Grants support American specialist who wish to host and /or visit their CEE or NIS colleagues on order to initiate research projects and prepare collaborative research proposals for submission to NSF. Each individual visit proposed must be at least two weeks (10-14 days) in length. Grants will be in the range of $2,500 to $ 10,000.

Funding Source: U.S. National Science Foundation

Participating Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan (traveling only), Belarus, Bosnia (hosting in U.S. only), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, (Former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Accepted Fields: Only fields funded by NSF are eligible, including archaeology and anthropology; astronomy; biochemistry, biophysics and genetics; biological sciences; chemistry; computer science; earth sciences; economics; engineering; environmental sciences; geography; history and philosophy of science; linguistics; mathematics; physics; political science; non-clinically-oriented psychology; science and technology policy; and sociology. No proposals involving agricultural production; drug testing or development; research on the diagnosis, etiology or treatment of physical or mental diseases or disorders; or the use of animal models of human diseases or conditions will be accepted. Proposals outside the scope of the program will not be considered.

Eligibility: All applicants must: (1) be U.S. citizens or permanent residents; (2) be affiliated with a U.S. universities or other non-profit research institutions; and (3) possess Ph.D. or equivalent research experience. Foreign counterparts involved must possess CEE/NIS citizenship, be permanently employed at a CEE/NIS institution, and hold Ph.D. (kandidat) degrees or research training and experience equivalent to a doctoral degree. Employees of private companies and the U.S. government generally are not supported under the COBASE program. As the program is designed to support new collaborative efforts, each set of partners may receive no more than one COBASE grant, and each individual may be involved in no more than two grants in a four-year period.

Special Opportunities for Junior Investigators: American applicants who have received their doctoral degrees within the past six years will receive special consideration. The COBASE program allocates approximately 25 percent of its grants to researchers in this category in order to encourage beginning investigators to become involved in international collaboration.

Postmarking Deadlines: April 24, 2000; August 28, 2000; January 8, 2001

Application Forms and Instructions: www.nationalacademies.org/oia

For More Information: Tel: 202-334-2644 Fax:202-334-2614 Email: ocee@nas.edu

Last updated:    April 2000

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