General Information
The RFP is now closed
This call for proposals is a follow-on activity to the October meeting "International Engagement: Responsible Bioscience for a Safe and Secure Society", which will be held/was held in Jordan (in collaboration with the Jordan University of Science and Technology). This meeting will engage/engaged leading scientific experts, influential administrators from educational and/or research institutes, and appropriate regulators or policy-makers from countries within the BMENA region to discuss and identify barriers and challenges to International Scientific Collaboration in the areas of biotechnology, infectious diseases and biomedical research strategies to identify and control outbreaks.
The goal of this project is to support scientific relationships and promote increased collaboration among scientists within the BMENA region and more developed nations. Examples of grant topics may include collaborative efforts to address key problems or recommendations identified at the meeting or educate scientists about shared good research practices. Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate they have considered the specific long-term goals and mechanisms to sustain their collaborations beyond the CSTSP-funded project. The grants will provide up to one year of support to scientific partners from the U.S. and countries of the region of interest. Eligibility of individuals is specified under Principal Investigator Eligibility Criteria. Submission requirements can be found under proposal preparation and submission instructions.
The maximum amount allocated per grant will be $75,000. The maximum projection duration is one year; however, all projects must be completed by December 31, 2011.
Program Objectives
Projects funded under this solicitation should contribute to:
- facilitating long-term, mutually beneficial international scientific collaboration in the biological sciences;
- exploring common norms and values for a shared sense of safe, secure, and ethical conduct of research and methods for implementation;
- exploring, recommending and suggesting ways of overcoming barriers and challenges towards international scientific collaboration in the areas of biotechnology, infectious disease and biomedical strategies to combat disease;
- promoting education, recruitment, and retention of talented scientists; or
- building a network of scientific and institutional leaders in the region and their U.S. counterparts
Eligibility Information
Proposals should include at least one principal investigator from the region and one from the U.S. All partners share the responsibility for the project activities and management of all associated participants and institutions. Additional investigators may also be involved whether as co-investigators, post-doctoral researchers, students, or trainees. Projects involving participants from only one country (either from the region or the United States) are ineligible and will not be reviewed. In developing proposals, principal investigators are urged to take advantage of the widest range of talent capable of contributing to the achievement of objectives from the region of interest.
Principal investigators must also meet the following criteria:
- Each collaborative grant proposal must be from at least one of the institutions represented at the meeting held in Jordan.
- Each collaborative grant must have at least one principal investigator from the U.S. as well as at least one principal investigator or institution from one of the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Pakistan, Tunisia, or Yemen. The principal investigators from these countries must reside in one of these countries for the length of the CSTSP collaborative grant, and must make up the majority of total investigators involved with the grant.
- For projects with equivalent scientific and/or collaborative merit, preference will be given to projects with a higher share of resources dedicated to supporting research activities in the countries enumerated in bullet 2, excluding the U.S.
- The U.S. investigator and participants must be legally eligible to work in the United States and must be legal residents of the U.S for the entire award period. Graduate students from the U.S. must be enrolled in an accredited degree program at a U.S. institution during the period of their participation in the project.
FUNDING RESTRICTIONS:
a. Funds may not be used for expenses related to activities in Iran, Sudan, Syria, the West Bank, and Gaza.
i. Participants from these counties may be included in the grant proposal, but funding for their activities must be provided by an independent source.
At least one Principal Investigator must be actively engaged in research.
Application Documents
Contact Us
Kavita Berger, Ph.D.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
Phone: (001)-202-326-7027
Fax: (001) 202-289-1846
KBerger@aaas.org
Gwen Coat, M.Sc.
Program Associate
AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
Phone: (001)-202-326-6779
Fax: (001) 202-289-1846
gcoat@aaas.org