Date: Friday, May 05, 2000 1:52 AM
Subject: SCIENTIST: COBASE Grant
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
http://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
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***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*
August 28, 2000; January 8, 2001
Application Forms and Instructions: http://www.nationalacademies.org/oia
For More Information:
Tel: 202-334-2644 Fax:202-334-2614
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Anna Yastrzhembska,
Assistant
Student Records Office
Nádor u. 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: (36-1) 327-3217
Fax: (36-1) 327-3007
(To the Attn. of Anna Yastrzhembska, SRO)
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