Clearinghouse for Developing the Infrastructures of Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union

该奖项支持美国科学促进会（AAAS）在苏联和欧洲共产主义政权的继承国推进科学基础设施建设。这些活动将发展该地区美国科学家和研究人员之间的合作网络和信息交流；协助这些国家发展基于竞争、同行评议和民主规范的新科学结构；并将鼓励发展独立的非政府科学社团。该奖项将资助：在埃里温（1998年6月）和新西伯利亚（1998年9月）举办提案写作讲习班；在埃里温举办的方案管理讲习班（1999年5月）；在布拉格和圣彼得堡举办的科学写作和数据交流讲习班；美国科学促进会和农村社会学会院士。这些活动实现了该计划的目标，即在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，将美国、中欧和东欧的顶尖专家聚集在一起，在具有强烈共同利益和能力的领域结合互补的努力和能力

INT-9809923KirkThis award supports the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS] in advancing scientific infrastructures in the successor states to the USSR and European Communist regimes. The activities will develop cooperative networks of and information exchange between U.S. scientists and researchers from this region; assist these countries in developing new scientific structures based on competition, peer review, and democratic norms; and will encourage the development of independent non-governmental scientific societies. This award will fund: proposal writing workshops in Yerevan (June 1998) and Novosibirsk (September 1998); a program management workshop in Yerevan (May 1999); science writing and data exchange workshops in Prague and St. Petersburg; and AAAS Society Fellows for the AAAS and Rural Sociology Society. These activities fulfill the program objectives of bringing together leading experts in the U.S. and Central and Eastern Europe to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.***