Postdoctoral Fellowship Program with the Former Soviet Unionand Eastern Europe

回应美国国家科学基金会代表号见92-008，美国国家科学院(NAS)中欧和欧亚事务办公室(OCEE)将继续一项博士后奖学金计划，该计划将在1月1日期间支持美国科学家与他们来自前苏联(FSU)和东欧(EE)的同事之间的合作研究，1993年至1994年12月31日。来自国家科学基金会(NSF)的资金将主要支持美国科学家个人前往或接待来自前苏联和东欧的同事一到六个月。高达40%的奖学金将用于为期两周的项目开发访问，允许参与者为长期合作研究项目制定计划，特别强调制定提交给NSF的FSU/EE合作科学计划的具体建议。项目开发访问还旨在为科学家提供支持，让他们在相对较短的准备时间内，对具有特殊价值和对美国科学潜在好处的不同寻常的科学机会做出反应。年轻的调查人员将在遴选中得到特别考虑。至少25%的长期研究和项目开发访问奖学金将授予年轻研究人员，以鼓励和投资长期合作。在美国政府没有与罗马尼亚达成科技协议的情况下，罗马尼亚结对计划将继续促进美国科学家与他们的罗马尼亚同事之间的互动，他们在很大程度上仍与国际科学界隔绝。所需资金中的一小部分将用于支持通过这些个人访问和其他东加勒比国家组织活动获得的关于该区域科学和技术发展的信息汇编。该项目实现了促进科学知识的计划目标，使美国和东欧(包括前苏联)的顶尖研究人员能够在平等、互惠的基础上，在基础科学研究领域共同感兴趣和能力强的领域结合互补的努力和能力，和互惠互利。

In response to NSF REP No. SEE 92-008, the Office for Central Europe and Eurasia (OCEE) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) will continue a postdoctoral fellowship program which supports collaborative research between American scientists and their colleagues from the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Eastern Europe (EE) for the period of January 1, 1993 through December 31, 1994. The funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support primarily individual American scientists to either travel to or host colleagues from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for one to six months. Up to 40 percent of the fellowships will be provided for two-week project development visits which allow participants to develop plans for long-term cooperative research projects, with special emphasis on developing concrete proposals for submission to NSF's FSU/EE cooperative science programs. The project development visits are also intended to provide support for scientists to respond, with relatively short lead time, to unusual scientific opportunities of exceptional merit and potential benefit to U.S. science. Young investigators will be given special consideration in the selection. At least 25 percent of the fellowships, both in long-term research and project development visits, will be awarded to young investigators as an encouragement to and investment in long-term collaboration. In the absence of a U.S. government science and technology agreement with Romania, the Romania twinning program will continue to foster interaction between American scientists and their Romanian colleagues, who remain largely isolated from the international scientific community. A small portion of the requested funds will support compilations of information about science and technology development in the region obtained through these individual visits and other OCEE activities. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union, 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.