National funding programmes that fund collaboration between national and foreign scientists
Mercator Fellowships from DFG
Scope: Mercator Fellowships enable intensive, long-term project-based collaboration between researchers from both domestic and foreign institutions.
Contact: postmaster@dfg.de
Research fellowships and awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Scope: the research fellowships and awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany.
Who can apply: Academics of all disciplines from abroad, who are internationally recognised as leaders in their field.
Contact: info@avh.de
Hungarian Research Fund for international cooperation from OTKA
Scope: The Hungarian Research Fund for international cooperation from OTKA aims at facilitating scientific cooperation between the Hungarian researchers and foreign partners. Broad spectrum of subjects including infectious diseases.
Who can apply: The Hungarian applicant has to be affiliated with a research institution in Hungary.
Contact: otka@otka.hu
Bilateral scientific cooperations of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Scope: The bilateral scientific cooperations of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences aims at facilitating scientific cooperation between the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and academic research institutes of the partner countries. Broad spectrum of subjects including infectious diseases.
Who can apply: Reseachers from the partner countries.
Contact: nemzetkozi@titkarsag.mta.hu
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF)
Scope: GIF's objective is to promote and fund basic and applied scientific research projects for peaceful purposes in both countries conducted jointly by teams of scientists.
Who can apply: Researchers from Germany and Israel
Contact: t.rosenbaum@gif.org.il
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
Scope: The goal of BSF is to promote scientific relations between the U.S. and Israel by supporting collaborative research projects in a wide area of basic and applied scientific fields, for peaceful and non-profit purposes.
Who can apply: Researchers from Isreal and US
Contact: yair@bsf.org.il
International project of scientific cooperation from CNRS
Scope: The aim of the international project of scientific cooperation from the CNRS is to fund collaborative research projects between a French team from the CNRS and a foreign team.
Who can apply: In France: CNRS researchers, as well as academic staff from other institutions who work in CNRS-affiliated units. Outside of France: researchers and academics from research organizations or universities.
Contact: http://www.cnrs.fr/derci/spip.php?article251
Bilateral exchange programs of the CNRS
Scope: The aim of the bilateral exchange programs of the CNRS is to assist researchers in initiating scientific collaboration with a foreign partner. The goal is for researchers to work together on a jointly defined project. During the project, researchers may visit each other on short-term stays.
Who can apply: In France: CNRS researchers, as well as academic staff from other institutions who work in CNRS-affiliated units. Outside of France: researchers and academics from research organizations or universities
GROW – Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide
Scope: The GROW program aims at promoting research stays of US doctoral candidates at Austrian research institutes.
Who can apply: GROW is a programme for supporting the international exchange of doctoral candidates from the USA jointly offered by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and partner organisations worldwide. It offers doctoral candidates who are funded by the NSF in the framework of its Graduate Research Fellows Program (GRFP) to make research stays at scientific institutions in partner countries.
Contact: feng.xie@fwf.ac.at
Bilateral scientific cooperations of the Romanian Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation
Scope: The bilateral scientific cooperations of the Romanian Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation aims at facilitating scientific cooperation between RO research organisations and some partner countries from EU and outside of EU. Broad spectrum of subjects including infectious diseases are covered.
Who can apply: researchers from RO and partner countries.
Contact: beatrice.paduroiu@ancs.ro
