Administrative Support for Soviet Participants in US-USSR Joint Committee Meeting (April 14-20, 1990)

这项建议支持参加将于1990年4月19日至20日在华盛顿特区举行的美苏基础科学研究领域合作联合委员会第一次会议的外国与会者的当地费用。OSTP的Bromley博士和苏联国家科学技术委员会主席Nikolay Laverov博士将主持会议。联合委员会是根据1989年1月《基础科学研究领域政府间合作协定》设立的。该协定反过来又为下级机构一级的谅解备忘录提供了框架，通过这些谅解备忘录实际执行合作活动。正是在这一框架下，NSF于去年5月与苏联科学院签署了一份谅解备忘录。这项协议使我们第一次与苏联科学院建立了直接联系，并有能力支持研究者发起的、经过竞争性审查的合作研究提案。委员会的主要任务是审查这一新的合作方案的执行情况。会议将讨论各种问题，例如在苏联弥合学院和大学之间障碍的困难，新的研究课题和重点，以及两国在全球变化研究方面的协调。该项目实现了推进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和苏联的主要研究人员能够在平等、互惠的基础上，在共同感兴趣和有能力的基础科学研究领域结合互补的努力和能力。互惠互利。

This proposal supports the local costs for the foreign participants at the first meeting of the US-USSR Joint Commission for Cooperation in the field of Basic Scientific Research to be held in Washington, DC on April 19-20, 1990. Dr. Bromley, OSTP, and Dr. Nikolay Laverov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for Science and Technology will chair the proceedings. The Joint Commission was created by the January 1989 intergovernmental Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Basic Scientific Research. That agreement, in turn, provides the framework for subordinate agency-level memoranda of understanding through which the cooperative activities are actually implemented. It is under this umbrella that the NSF signed a Memorandum of Understanding last May with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. This agreement has given us, for the first time, a direct link with the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the ability to support investigator-initiated, competitively reviewed cooperative research proposals. The Commission's main task is to review the implementation of this new cooperative program. It will discuss issues and problems, such as the difficulties of bridging barriers in the Soviet Union between the Academy and the universities, new research topics and emphases, and coordination of the global change research between the two countries. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.