NSF International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops
The National Science Foundation Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) is offering support through its International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops grants. These awards are designed to "support early phases of developing and coordinating a research and education activity with a foreign partner(s)."
Activities can be in any field of science and engineering research and education supported by NSF.
Individual proposals can be submitted for:
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Planning visits to assess foreign facilities, equipment, or subjects of research, and to have detailed discussions with prospective foreign partners to finalize plans for cooperative research. Visits typically range from 7-14 days.
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Joint workshops designed to identify common research priorities, focused on a specific, well-defined area of research collaboration. U.S. and international co-organizers collaboratively design the agenda around a disciplinary or inter-disciplinary theme, and invite individuals who will uniquely contribute to the workshop’s objectives.
Applications are accepted anytime for planning visits. Upcoming deadlines for planning workshops are May 20, 2009, September 20, 2009 and February 20, 2010.
Full program information and guidelines can be found here.
View summaries of past recipients.
This program provides a great opportunity to support collaboration in its earliest stages. There is no limit on applications or awards per institution, though a given PI is limited to one award per year.