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Slide1 : INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT NSF: CTS DIVISION AND OISE ACTIVITIES* Glenn Schrader Program Director gschrade@nsf.gov 703-292-8371 Presented at AIChE National Meeting, Cincinnati OH November 2005 * Please contact any CTS Program Manager regarding your specific international interests


Slide2 : General Guidelines for International Activities: Researchers may include an international dimension in their research proposals. Current PIs may also request supplementary funding to active awards for international activities by contacting the managing program officer for their award. During fiscal years when budgets are tight*, it is especially important that PIs contact their program managers prior to submitting requests for international supplements or other awards. International workshops, support for attendance at international meetings, planning visits, etc. may also be supported; a separate proposal may be required in some cases. Again, principle investigators should check with program managers prior to submitting a proposal. OISE staff who have expertise in the country or region of interest may also be contacted directly for information about institutions and counterpart agencies. OISE typically consults with program managers regarding the initial consideration of the suitability of the proposal and during the final evaluation of the technical content of the international collaboration.   * such as FY06


Slide3 : International CTS Division Activities International funding (and supplements) for graduate student and faculty travel to foreign institutions to conduct collaborative research International meeting support (travel, registration, etc.) International workshops and planning visits Some support may be possible for participation of foreign researchers to perform work at US institutions and facilities International REU programs


Slide4 : Examples of Prior and Upcoming CTS International Workshops and Meetings* * In several cases, only partial support for specific aspects of the meetings or for US participation is involved Ø North American Catalysis Society Meeting (Mexico), May 2003 ØØ    International Symposium on Relations between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis, July 2003 and July 2005 Ø   PASI (Brazil) – Energy Conversion and Environmental Protection, October 2003 Ø   International Symposium on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, May 2004 Ø   International Congress on Catalysis (Paris), July 2004 Ø   Workshop on NSF-DST Joint Program for Cooperative Research between US and India, Mumbai, India, December 2004 Ø   NSF/CRNS & IFP Nanocatalysis Workshop (France), May 2005 EMCC-4 (Israel): Models for Enhancing Collaborate Research, January 2006


Slide5 : Agency-Wide International Opportunities at NSF Reorganization of INT to OISE http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/int/ OISE is the Office of International Science and Engineering OISE: January 2002 reorganization, now reporting to OD Ongoing changes (trend is to larger impact projects) Some changes clear: OISE will no longer accept proposals that request funding for small-scale international collaborative research as defined in program solicitation NSF 03-559.


Slide6 : Portfolio of OISE Activities Planning Visits and Workshops Global Scientists and Engineers Partnerships for International Research and Education


Slide7 : Planning Visits and Workshops International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops (NSF 04-035) invites proposals for workshops and planning visits that are catalytic and may lead to innovative international partnerships, training activities or collaborative research that could be funded by OISE and/or by NSF research directorates.


Slide8 : Global Scientists and Engineers A relatively new solicitation which provides international research experiences for small groups of undergraduates and/or graduate students and for enhancement of doctoral dissertation research: Developing Global Scientists and Engineers ( NSF 04-036 ), East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students ( NSF 03-608 ), Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes ( NSF 03-506 ), d. International Research Postdoctoral Fellowships ( NSF 02-149 )


Slide9 : Partnerships for International Research and Education As a one-time solicitation inFY2005, provides for long-term international research and educational activities build on institutional strengths to provide an international collaborative experience that can involve U.S. researchers at all levels. 10 awards made – 4 with engineering emphasis


Slide10 : PIRE: Partnership for International Research and Education for Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces – UCSB (Horia Metiu, Steven Buratto, Martin Moskovits, Susannah Scott This award establishes a long-term Partnership for International Research and Education for Electron Chemistry and Catalysis at Interfaces (PIRE-ECCI) between the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Dalian Institute for Chemical Physics (DICP) in Dalian, China. The focus area for research is modern heterogeneous catalysis with a multidisciplinary approach that seeks to increase contacts between the fields of surface science, catalysis and chemical dynamics at interfaces, thus striving for a "first principles understanding" of technologically important catalytic systems. Support for graduate students and postdocs at UCSB and DICP to pursue collaborative research Chinese language and cultural sensitivity training with similar reciprocal support Summer schools on catalysis Issues of technology transfer in international high-tech business