Furthering U.S. Interests and Leadership in the International Council of Scientific Unions and its Associated Unions

美国国家科学院温迪·d·怀特由于当代科学和工程的全球性特点，美国科学家和工程师以及他们的专业组织必须与外国同行的活动和计划保持密切联系，这在一定程度上是为了促进合作项目的发展。此外，为了更好地了解许多重要问题，例如与全球环境、数据质量和获取以及研究人员的培训和利用有关的问题，需要在多边基础上进行合作努力。越来越多的此类问题跨越或超越了个别科学学科。促进美国科学家和工程师与外国同行在世界范围内交流的最古老和最广泛的机制是一系列非政府国际学科联盟和跨学科委员会，它们共同组成了国际科学理事会（ICSU），这是一个由90多个国家的附属组织组成的非政府多边组织。该奖项将允许美国国家科学院继续管理美国参与ICSU。它向ICSU及其23个国际学科联盟中的5个支付会费，并为在ICSU和这些联盟中代表美国利益的美国科学家和工程师委员会的活动提供资金支持。

Wendy D. White, National Academy of SciencesBecause of the global character of contemporary science and engineering, it is essential for U.S. scientists and engineers, as well as their professional organizations, to remain in close touch with the activities and plans of their foreign counterparts, in part as a means to facilitate the development of collaborative programs. Additionally, gaining a better understanding of many important problems, such as those associated with the global environment, data quality and access, and the training and utilization of research personnel, require cooperative efforts on a multilateral basis. An increasing number of such problems either cut across, or transcend, indivudal scientific disciplines. The oldest and most extensive mechanism for facilitating world-wide communication between U.S. scientists and engineers and their foreign countarparts is the array of non-governmental international disciplinary unions and cross-disciplinary committees that together comprise the International Council of Science (ICSU), a non-governmental, multilateral organization comprised of adhering organization in over 90 countries. This award will permit the National Academy of Sciences to continue to manage U.S. participation in ICSU. It provides dues payments to ICSU and five of its 23 international disciplinary unions, and funds to support the activities of the committees of U.S. scientists and engineers who represent U.S. interests in ICSU and those unions.