Funding for International Funding for International Research and Scholarly WorkResearch and Scholarly Work

Rick Nader, Research Development, Office of the VP for Research and

Economic Development

OutlineOutline• Tour of Selected Federal Funding Opportunities

– National Science Foundation– Department of Education– National Institutes of Health– U.S. Agency for International Development

• Trends in International Research and Exchange• Stimulus?

Office of International Science Office of International Science and Engineeringand Engineering

• Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)

• Planning Visits and Workshops (PV&W)• International Research Experiences for Students

(IRES)• International Research post-doc Fellowship (IRFP)• Summer Institutes for Graduate Students (EAPSI)• Pan American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI)• Special Initiatives or Supplements• http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?div=OISE

Title VI: International Education Title VI: International Education • Centers for International Business Education (CIBE)• Developing Critical Language and Area Expertise• Strengthening International Studies and Foreign Language

Teaching– UISFL provides funds to plan, develop and carry out programs to

strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages.

– Fulbright-Hays--Group Projects Abroad Program provides funds for overseas projects in humanities, social sciences and language training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor.

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/iegps/index.html

Fogarty International CenterFogarty International Center• Research Grants Collaborative research and capacity building

projects relevant to low- and middle- income nations.• Research Training Grants Institutional training grants

designed to enhance research capacity in the developing world, with an emphasis on institutional partnerships and networking.

• STIMULUS FUNDING will support research on topics that address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds.http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/research_grants/index.htm

• Higher Education for Development works in close partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the nation’s six presidential higher education associations

• Institutional Partnerships link U.S. colleges or universities with institutions of higher learning in developing nations. Partners work together to design and implement solutions to development challenges across the developing world.

• Recent RFAs: Africa-U.S. Higher Education competition (Sub-Saharan)• Current RFAs: Algeria: Strengthening Higher Education Preparation for the

Workforce Deadline: June 15, 2009• KEY POINT 1: Get Busy and Get Networked- Universities/NGOs/Missions • KEY POINT 2: Millennium Development Goals Drive Local Priorities• KEY POINT 3:Local Mission Priorities/Interpretation Drives decisions

http://www.hedprogram.org/

US Agency for International US Agency for International DevelopmentDevelopment

No Yes

Yes

No

Pure BasicResearch(Bohr)

Use-inspiredBasic Research(Pasteur)

Pure AppliedResearch(Edison)

Research is inspired by: Consideration of use?

Quest forFundamentalUnderstanding?

Adapted from Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Donald E. Stokes 1997

R&D in the U.S. is increasingly performed in “Pasteur’s Quadrant”

R&D is GlobalizedR&D is Globalized

Data for 2000

Trends in Research & DevelopmentTrends in Research & Development

Berry & Loeb, 2008

International Collaboration International Collaboration in Scholarly Workin Scholarly Work

International collaboration is commonplace

About 20% of the world’s scientific and technical articles in 2003 had authors from two or more countries, compared with 8% in 1988

One-quarter of articles with U.S. authors have one or more international coauthors

from John TsapogasNational Science Foundation

Office of International Science and Engineering November 19, 2008

(OISE)www.nsf.gov/oise

Science and Engineering CollaborationsScience and Engineering CollaborationsTrends from the NSF Survey of Doctorate

Recipients: 2006

ConclusionsConclusions• Male S&E doctorates have more international collaborations than female S&E

doctorates (33% of males versus 23 percent of females) • Research faculty have more international collaborations than teaching faculty• Business and industry lead in international collaborations, followed by

Government, and Academia (within each sector males more likely to collaborate and females are less likely to collaborate)

• The number of international collaborations among underrepresented minorities (URM) not much different from whites and Asians (URM females less than males)

• Citizenship does not appear to be a factor in impacting international collaborations (females are less likely to collaborate internationally regardless of citizenship status)

• Engineers and Physical Scientists are more likely and social scientists are least likely to collaborate internationally

NSF Survey of Doctorate Recipients: 2006

Conclusions (continued)Conclusions (continued)• The presence of children in the household does not appear to be a

factor in restricting females from collaborating internationally (however, for male S&E doctorates, children in the household, appears to increase the likelihood of international collaborations)

• S&E doctorates in mid-career are more likely to collaborate internationally than S&E doctorates in early-career or late-career stages

• Collaborating internationally does not mean traveling abroad (56% of female S&E doctorates and 48% of male S&E doctorates who conducted international collaborations did not actually travel to a foreign country to conduct those collaborations)

• It is more likely for the foreign collaborator to come to the U.S. than for the U.S. collaborator to go to the foreign country when conducting international collaborations, (for both males and females) NSF Survey of Doctorate

Recipients: 2006

$timulus? $timulus? nono large impacts on International large impacts on International Recall the purpose of the ARRA:1. preserve and create jobs and promote economic recovery.2. assist those most impacted by the recession.3. stabilize state and local government budgets4. invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other

infrastructure that will provide long-term economic benefits5. provide investments to increase economic efficiency by spurring

technological advances in science and health…• NIH Novel strategies to improve health care access for stigma-related

conditions; Improving health through ICT/mobile technologies: enhancing patient compliance; Tools for studying cultural phenomena; Ethical issues in health disparities and access to participation in research…etc.

• NSF Fund down the line and Offer EAGER Grants – Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research

Questions?Questions?