Please note the following fund opportunity:
Program: COBASE Project Development and Initiation Grants
Agency: National Academies
Deadline: April 14, 2003; August 25, 2003
URL: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/dsc/COBASE_Program.html
Grants (in the range of $2,500 - $10,000) are offered to American
specialists who wish to host and/or visit colleagues in order to initiate
research projects and prepare collaborative research proposals for
submission to the NSF.
Participating Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, 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 (see website for updated list
of ineligible partner institutions), Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, and Yugoslavia (hosting in U.S.
only).
Only fields funded by NSF are eligible. Special topical focus areas for
this competition are "Social Sciences" and "Central Asia". American
applicants who received their doctoral degrees within the past 10 years
will receive special consideration.
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