Networking and collaborative Research with European partners: participation in the Eurocores Scheme

该项目将支持在欧洲合作研究计划（EUROCORES）框架内开展国际合作研究项目的美国研究人员的联网费用。 由欧洲科学基金会开发和协调的欧洲核心方案是一个旨在支持自下而上、由专家推动的国际研究合作的机制。 主要位于欧洲的国家供资机构作出方案性决定，提供资金，以支持关于一个提案国提议的专题的联合呼吁。 每个参与国的研究者都可以提出成为响应号召的多国合作研究项目（CRP）的一部分。 经过国际绩效审查过程后，成功的CRP（以及相关的单个项目）将得到PI所在国家的国家资助机构的支持。 NSF已经在EUROCORES框架内支持了20多个美国研究人员/项目的研究费用。 该奖项为美国研究人员与海外同行建立协调机制提供资金。 通过该奖项支持的活动的更广泛影响是显著的，重点是利用NSF投资的美国研究人员的国际研究合作活动。 每个EUROCORES方案内的联网活动包括年度科学委员会会议、一年两次的专题科学讲习班和方案范围的会议，以传播成果和促进新的合作。 对于初级研究人员，该项目支持与欧洲同行的暑期学校和旅行赠款，使他们能够与欧洲的同事沿着获得独特的欧洲研究基础设施的直接合作。 EUROCORES在吸引顶级研究人员和多个国家资助机构共同呼吁方面取得的成功表明了研究的质量以及这些方案内国际协调与合作的重要性。

This project will support the Networking costs of US-based researchers undertaking international collaborative research projects within the framework of the EUROpean COoperative RESearch (EUROCORES) scheme. The EUROCORES Programme, developed and coordinated by the European Science Foundation, is a mechanism designed to support bottom-up, investigator-driven international research collaborations. National funding agencies, located primarily in Europe, make a programmatic decision to provide funds to support a Joint Call on an investigator-proposed topical Theme. Individual investigators in each of the participating countries can propose to be part of a multinational Collaborative Research Project (CRP) that responds to the call. After an international Merit Review process, successful CRPs (and therefore the associated Individual Projects) are supported by the national funding agency in the country where the PI is employed. NSF has already supported the research costs of over 20 individual US-based investigators/projects within the EUROCORES framework. This award provides funding to network the US researchers with their counterparts overseas in a coordinated mechanism. The Broader Impacts of the activities supported through this award are significant, focusing on international research cooperation activities for US researchers that leverage the NSF investment. Networking activities within each EUROCORES programme include annual scientific committee meetings, biannual Topical Science Workshops, and programme-wide Conferences to disseminate results and foster new collaborations. For junior researchers, the project supports Summer Schools with European counterparts and travel grants that enable direct collaboration with European-based colleagues along with access to unique European research infrastructure. The success of EUROCORES in attracting both top-level researchers and multiple national funding agencies to a common Call demonstrates the quality of the research, and the importance of the international coordination and cooperation, within these programmes.