Call for Proposals | BRICS STI Framework Programme | Coordinated Call for BRICS Multilateral Projects – Pilot Call 2016

BRICS STI Framework Programme
Coordinated Call for BRICS Multilateral Projects – Pilot Call 2016

Call for collaborative multilateral basic, applied and innovation research projects is open until: 25 August 2016

The BRICS STI Framework Programme aims to support excellent research on priority areas which can best be addressed by a multinational approach. The initiative should facilitate cooperation among the researchers and institutions in the consortia which consist of partners from at least three of the BRICS countries.
As part of the initiative the following research funding organizations from the BRICS countries have agreed to jointly establish a new scheme for funding multilateral cooperative activities:

Brazil: National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
Russia: Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE) | Ministry of Education and Science (MON) | Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
India: Department of Science and Technology (DST)
China: Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
South Africa: Department of Science and Technology (DST) | National Research Foundation (NRF)

Aim of the Joint Call and Thematic areas: Collaborative multilateral basic, applied and innovation research projects in the following thematic areas can be submitted in response to the call:

(a) Prevention and monitoring of natural disasters
(b) Water resources and pollution treatment
(c) Geospatial technology and its applications
(d) New and renewable energy, and energy efficiency
(e) Astronomy
(f) Biotechnology and biomedicine including human health and neuroscience
(g) Information technologies and high performance computing
(h) Ocean and polar science and technology
(i) Material science including nanotechnology
(j) Photonics

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