# Presentation: 159788

## October 29, 2007

**Office****of ****International Science & Engineering (OISE)**
**Advisory Committee Meeting**
**October 29, 2007**

## OISE

**OISE**

- Serves as a visible focal point, both inside and outside NSF, for international science,  engineering and education activities
- Promotes the development of an integrated, Foundation-wide, international strategy
- Manages international programs that are innovative, catalytic and responsive to the broad range of NSF interests

## FY 2008 Request:  

_**FY 2008 Request**_**:**
- $45.00 M  (+$4.39M/10.8%)
- Currently operating under
- Continuing Resolution

**Notes:**
Under Continuing Resolution, OISE is operating at $40 million (FY 2007 level)

##     OISE Budget Themes

-     **OISE Budget Themes**
- Developing STEM workforce of the 21st Century
- Promoting research excellence through international partnerships

**Notes:**
OISE supports activities that contribute to the development of a diverse, globally-engaged, U.S. science and engineering workforce and to furthering global partnerships.

## OISE FY 2007 Actuals

**OISE FY 2007 Actuals**

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**Notes:**
The “Other Discovery” category includes HSD, LTER, Planning visits and workshops and BE
The “Other Learning” category includes PASI, International planning and workshops and REU

## Slide 6

| Number of People Involved in OISE Activities
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Managed |  Split   Funded |  |
| Senior Scientists
Post Docs (within 6 years of PhD.)
Graduate Students
Undergraduates
Foreign (all levels) |  | 
1023
647
1412
1043
381 | 
142
95
412
238
40 |  |
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**Notes:**
These are participant counts. “OISE Managed” data are from SPDE entered on OISE managed awards with FY 2007 funding actions. This includes everything managed by OISE, including PASI, US Egypt, all EAPSI, HFSP, etc.  The “Split Funded” data are co-funding actions based on OISE SPDE spreadsheet.

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

- Research collaboration  funded through the **Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE)** program is developing a faster and more accurate method of detecting viruses (Germany).

**Notes:**
The quality of viruses is important for both vaccine productions and gene therapy, and speed of production can be a major factor during flu seasons since viruses mutate so quickly.  U.S. researchers Mohammad Faghri and Andrew Marchesseault of the University of Rhode Island, and German researcher Stephanus Buettgenbach of the Technical University in Braunschweig, have made discoveries which can speed up and improve the sensitivity of detection of disease-causing viruses using rapid mass measurements.  This researcher collaboration is funded through the Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program supported by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems.

##     U.S.-East Africa Workshop on Humanitarian Relief Research and Education, Kenya used insights from Darfur, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2005 tsunami,    taken with systems engineering, to improve the logistics and communication of humanitarian relief. Follow-up workshop at NSF in January 2007 developed a    research agenda for this emerging field

**    ****U.S.-East Africa Workshop on Humanitarian Relief Research and Education, Kenya **used insights from Darfur, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2005 tsunami,    taken with systems engineering, to improve the logistics and communication of humanitarian relief. Follow-up workshop at NSF in January 2007 developed a    research agenda for this emerging field

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

## 	A participant of the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI) in Japan, David R. Shelly (Stanford University) published an article entitled “Low-frequency earthquakes in Shikoku, Japan, and their relationship to episodic tremor and slip” in NATURE.   

- 	A participant of the **East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute (EAPSI)** in Japan, David R. Shelly (Stanford University) published an article entitled “Low-frequency earthquakes in Shikoku, Japan, and their relationship to episodic tremor and slip” in* NATURE*.

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

**Notes:**
He is the first and corresponding author among four co-authors. The article is based on his research work with his Japanese host researcher Professor Satoshi Ide at the University of Tokyo.

The study has shown that low-frequency earthquakes could potentially contribute to seismic hazard forecasting by providing a new means to monitor slow slip at depth.

NATURE, the International Weekly Journal of Science [Nature 442, 188-191, 13 July 2006].   

-        The **Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI)** on Energy Conversion and Environmental Protection assembled 40 students and 20 lecturers from industry, academia, and government to plan new research in the critical areas of fuel cells and catalysis for emissions control.

-           Countries represented included: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela, and the U.S. Half of the students came from outside the U.S.

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

## Notable Research Accomplishments

**International Research Experiences for Students (IRES)** in
- Atomic Physics: A U.S.-Polish Collaboration

- Research at the Joint Polish-U.S. Atomic Physics and Photonics Lab at Jagiellonian University
- Developing and applying new atomic physics techniques for magnetic-field measurements
- U.S. undergraduate and graduate students

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

**Notes:**
University of California at Berkeley (Dmitry Budker) and Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Wojciech Gawlik)

## Notable Research Accomplishments

-     OISE supplement to Directorate for Biological Sciences grant to University  of Wisconsin-Madison enabled U.S.-Nordic expert deployment of wireless sensor network
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-     U.S. graduate students gained field experience and participated in European GLEON meeting

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

**Notes:**
BIO grant for "...Automating Scaling and Data Processing in a Network of Sensors... for Lake Metabolism Research and Education.” 
Developing Global Scientists &Engineers:
Seven U.S. grad. students attended first European GLEON meeting at Lamni Biological Station, Finland, with site-visits to Sweden and Norway; 
U.S. students gained field experience with US-Nordic team’s deployment of new autonomous microbial geosensor.
This initiated program of annual summer GLEON-related research experience for three students in Finland and Sweden overlapping with IPY.

**Modeling and risk analysis of vessel traffic in the Bosporus Strait, Turkey** has generated models to decrease accidents; these are being considered for application to the Delaware Harbor and the Port of Philadelphia.

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

##     For each Federal dollar invested by NSF and NIH in the international Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), the United States receives $2 in return via: 	

-     For each Federal dollar invested by NSF and NIH in the international** Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)**, the United States receives $2 in return via:

- significant numbers of HFSP’s long-term fellows at U.S. institutions and laboratories; and
- participation by U.S. principal investigators in HFSP’s research team awards.

**"Intercontinentality"** is an essential component of the Human Frontier Science Program.

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

**Notes:**
The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), an international partnership of 12 nations and the European Union, promotes global-scale research on the complex mechanisms of living organisms through long- and short-term fellowships and research grants.  NSF and NIH contribute $9.0 million annually towards HFSP’s $56 annual million budget.  The U.S. scientific community remains the primary beneficiary of HFSP funding with over 60 percent of HFSP fellows choosing U.S. labs and institutions as hosts and participation by US principal investigators in 1/3 of HFSP’s research  awards in 2007.

- With mentors at the University of Geneva, U.S. **International Research Fellowship** **Program (IRFP)** awardee, Peter Armitage, developed an innovative system to perform optical and infrared spectroscopy on solid samples under high pressures at low temperatures.

_**Notable Research Accomplishments**_

**Notes:**
During his year and a half at the University of Geneva, he and his mentors explored improved methods in pressure measurements, an important parameter in tuning materials. It has been prohibitively difficult to perform such measurements until now.  This OISE-funded postdoc has returned to the US to continue his research the Johns Hopkins University

## Key Elements for OISE Funding

**Key Elements for OISE Funding**

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Leading-edge research and/or education
Intellectual Collaboration
Synergistic – utilizes skills, expertise, facilities of foreign counterparts
Junior researchers and students
Catalytic – new international collaboration |  |
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## OISE

**OISE**

|    Organized into four Regional Programs

Africa, Near East and South Asia Program (ANESA)
Americas Program (AMERICAS)
East Asia and Pacific Program (EAP)
Europe and Eurasia Program (EE)

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Global Initiatives

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## Slide 18

| OISE Personnel Overseas

Paris:  Dr. David Stonner

Tokyo: Dr. Machi Dilworth

Beijing: Dr. William Chang (Recruitment Underway)

U.S. Mission to UNESCO:  Dr. Geoffrey Prentice

Kuala Lumpur:  Dr. Larry Weber  |  |  |  |  |
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**Notes:**
EAP Program Manager Larry Weber will serve as an Embassy Science Fellow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for two months starting in November 2007.  A U.S.-Malaysia S&T Agreement is expected to be signed next year.  Larry will survey the overall state of Malaysian science and engineering research and education in order to inform NSF about Malaysian S&T policies, institutions and programs, and to facilitate helping the U.S. research community to develop collaborations with Malaysian partners

##  OISE Staff Changes (incoming)

| Ed Murdy, Acting Deputy Director, OISE
Vanessa Richardson, Director of Operations and 
        Analysis, OISE
Adrienne Huston, AAAS Fellow, ANESA and EE
Jessica Robin, Program Manager, AMERICAS
Ruth McDonald, Einstein Fellow, AMERICAS
Larry Weber, Senior Program Manager, EAP
Andrew Backe, Program Specialist, EAP
Cynthia Singleton, AAAS Fellow, EAP
Alice Boone, on detail from OIG, GI
Mark Suskin, Senior Program Manager, GI
John Tsapogas, Program Manager, GI |  |  |  |  |
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** **_**OISE Staff Changes**_** (incoming)**

##  OISE Staff Changes (outgoing)

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| Kathryn Sullivan, on detail to IRM/OAD
Frank Wodarczyk, Program Manager, AMERICAS
Garie Fordyce, Associate Program Manager, AMERICAS
Michael Pritchard, on detail to OIG, GI
Christine Galitzine, Senior Program Manager, GI
Jordan Hau, WIN Intern
Alan Miller, Einstein Fellow
Bianca Rodriquez, HACU Intern |  |

** **_**OISE Staff Changes**_** (outgoing)**

**Notes:**
WIN = Washington Internship for Native Students

HACU= Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

## Embassy Science Fellows Program

_**Embassy Science Fellows Program**_
- Larry Suter	EHR/REC	Portugal	2006
- Susan Kemnitzer	ENG/EEC	Italy	2006
- William Zamer	BIO/IOB	Jordan	2005
- Judith Plesset	BIO/IOB	Russia	2005
- Bradley Keister	MPS/PHY	Armenia	2004
- Deh-I Hsiung	EHR/REC	China	2004
- Jorn Larsen Basse	ENG/CMS	Croatia	2004
- Elizabeth Vanderputten	EHR/REC	Germany	2004
- Frederick Heineken	ENG/BES	Germany	2004
- Geoffrey Prentice	ENG/CTS	Lithuania	2004
- Lawrence Goldberg	ENG/ECS	Moldavia	2004
- John Hurt	ENG/EEC	Portugal	2004

**Notes:**
National Academy of Sciences 1999 report,
Recommended improving science at the Department of State and strengthening role of science in foreign policy 
Two tangible results:
 S&T advisor to the Secretary of State (now Dr. Nina Federoff) and 
 Embassy Science Fellows Program (ESFP)
NSF and DOS formed a partnership in 2001, later expanded to other USG science agencies  
to provide expertise in science, mathematics, and engineering that would support the work of DOS embassies, consulates, and missions of the DOS on S&T issues
to provide valuable opportunity for NSF staff to work internationally
NSF has placed 36 fellows at 22 US Embassies  
Majority from three Directorates: ENG (12), EHR (10), and MPS (6) 
S&E Budget Cuts Since FY2005 have Impacted NSF’s Participation
Number of Fellows has dropped from 8 per year in 2001-2004 to about  2 per year since 2005.  (0 in 2007)
 As noted previously, Larry Weber will be Embassy Science Fellow in 2008.
EXAMPLES:
One of the typical assignments frequently requested by embassies is for NSF staff to make assessments of a particular country’s S&T infrastructure, assets, and potential for collaboration with U.S. scientific partners. 
-Others have requested education research on either the teaching or learning of mathematics, science, and engineering
-One NSF Fellow  made an assessment of S&T Capabilities Pertaining to the innovation system in Jordan.
-Embassy Rome requested a fellow to assess the Italian government’s S&T policy with special attention to the role of innovation in economic growth.  The same fellow supported the U.S. Ambassador’s Partnership for Growth Initiative, which showcased American entrepreneurship and our effectiveness in transforming technology breakthroughts from the research sector to market applications. 

## Slide 22

| Visitors OISE has hosted recently
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| Alexander Balyshev  Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
Magda Cringasu      National University Research Council, Romania
Christine Devlin          University of Virginia @ NSF Europe Office
Zeynep Durmusoglu  Turkey Council for Science &Technology (TUBITAK)
Ipek Erzi                    Turkey Council for Science &Technology (TUBITAK)
Gül Pelin Kaya          Turkey Council for Science &Technology (TUBITAK)
Vladimir Konnov     Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
Jianjun Li                  National Science Foundation China
S. Tanveer Naim         Higher Education Council, Pakistan
Hiroyuki Sasai         Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science 
                                                 and Technology, Japan  (MEXT Fellow)
Nakita Vodjdani      Agency National de la Recherche, France
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| International Institutional Cooperation |  |
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In addition to hosting foreign visitors, OISE works with foreign counterparts in international S&T infrastructure building.  Recent examples include:

Grant Agency Fundamentals (Nigeria, Syria, Poland)
Merit Review (Vietnam)
Research Program Management (Korea)
Award Administration (Japan, China)
Innovation and Science Policy (Finland, Norway, Spain and European Research Council) |  |

**Notes:**
Nigeria:  Dr. Pius Egbelu, an IPA at NSF, visited Nigeria several times in 2007 to provide advice to the government on its efforts to set up a national science foundation.
Syria:  Dr. Osman Shinaishin, OISE, traveled to Syria in December 2006 to attend a meeting convened by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation to address means for fostering science and technology innovation and strengthening the role of universities in the Arab world.
Japan:  OISE/EAP has worked closely with the Japan Science & Technology Agency and others in Japan to share lessons of NSF experience in award administration as Japan works to reform its basic research funding system. The NSF Tokyo Office and OISE headquarters have collaborated actively in this effort.  For example, JST sees US FDP (Federal Demonstration Project) as model for dialogue between funding agencies and user/research community on admin procedures.  
Korea:  KISTEP interested in evaluation and management of research projects
Korea Research Foundation (KRF) has engaged NSF in sharing "best practices" for research program management with developing countries.  Larry Weber will represent NSF at a KRF-organized workshop in Seoul in November on Capacity Building: Strengthening Research Program Management to Facilitate International Cooperation.  The workshop will involve research program managers from 10 developing countries.
China: NSFC and NSF meetings re IT systems, NSFC seconded a staffer from its IT division to spend 6 months at NSF/DIS.
Vietnam:  Merit review. Last November, two officials from Vietnam’s MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology) attended NSF's Program Manager's Seminar to learn about NSF's merit review system.  Vietnam is developing an agency similar to NSF and found this seminar very valuable.  

## Africa, Near East and South Asia Program (ANESA)

**Africa, Near East and South Asia Program (ANESA)**

**IRES: U.S. students study how West **
**   ****African monsoons influence U.S. **
**   ****hurricanes,  Senegal**

**U.S.-Egypt program changes - mainstreamed into the research Directorates, OISE will continue to coordinate;**
**Funding projects in a wider range of countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia;**
**Sending more students for research/education in the region:**

**U.S.-India Nanoscale Science & Eng. Advanced Studies Institute**

**IRES: U.S. students study Giant Sea **
**   ****Anemones and symbiotic Anemone Fish **
**   ****on Red Sea coral reefs, Jordan**

## Americas Program (AMERICAS)

**Americas Program (AMERICAS)**

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**Emphasis on developing applications of the growing cyberinfrastructure in the region through workshops on:**
**Applications of cyber tools to biodiversity in Panama, 2006;**
**Applications of sensor technologies to the environment in Argentina, 2007;**
**Applications of cyber tools to genomics in Peru, 2008 **
**PASI program is in 7th year of support and has promoted 60 PASIs in the region**
**Many 2007 awards focus on global change**

## East Asia and Pacific Program (EAP)

**East Asia and Pacific Program (EAP)**

| EAPSI additional hosts: NZ ('07), Singapore ('08)
EAPSI stipend raised to $5,000 in '08.
New U.S.-Japan initiative for collaboration in sensors research
Addition of China to Chemistry collaborative program and negotiations with Japan
CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) joins as sponsor for Summer Institute  in China
U.S.-China workshops on climate change
Embassy Tokyo Environment, Science and Technology Section merged with Economics Section

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**Notes:**
Note: New Zealand became an EAPSI host this year, accepting 15 students in Summer 2007.  The host agency is the Royal Society of New Zealand (RSNZ).  Singapore will join as a host in summer of 2008.  The National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore has agreed to receive and assist in placing up to 15 U.S. graduate students in research programs in Singapore.
Note: The stipend for EAPSI students in 2008 will be $5,000, an increase of $1,000 over the 2007 amount.  This increase brings the EAPSI stipend in line with the amount that recipients of Graduate Research Fellowships receive for two months.  We believe that raising the stipend makes EAPSI more attractive and may help in our effort to recruit more applicants from underrepresented groups
Note: OISE has worked closely with ENG/CMMI over the past year to develop a new collaboration with Japan in advance integrated sensor technology under the U.S.-Japan Framework Initiative for a Safe and Secure Society (FIS3). The collaboration, a partnership between NSF and the Japan Science & Technology Agency, resulted in a successful workshop in Japan in July which identified the structural health monitoring of bridges and other critical infrastructure as a priority. NSF/Tokyo and EAP/Ballston work closely on this and other FIS3 issues.  Currently NSF and JST are reviewing proposals for follow-up collaborative research projects.
Note: OISE has been working closely with the Chemistry Division to help advance its strategic objective of expanding international collaboration in its community. New this year, CHE has invited research proposals that establish new bilateral collaborations between U.S. investigators and investigators in China, France and the U.K., augmenting an effort that began two years ago with Germany. The partner in China is the National Natural Science Foundation; in the U.K., the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); and in France, the National Research Agency (ANR). We are currently working with CHE and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to add Japan to CHE's international collaboration program in FY09. 
Note: This should increase opportunities for EAPSI applicants wishing to pursue social science research in China.  The other Chinese sponsor agencies, MOST, NSFC and CAS, have only limited purview over social sciences.
Note: NSF Director Dr. Bement suggested to the President of the NSFC, Dr. Chen Yiyu, that the two agencies support a multi-year series of workshops covering all aspects of climate change, to be held alternately in the two countries.  Subsequent discussions between OISE and NSFC staff have resulted in a provisional plan for a ten-year time horizon, with the first workshop to be held with staff from NSF, NSFC, and CAS, in spring 2008.
Note: In August 2007, Embassy Tokyo merged its Environment, Science and Technology (EST) section with its Economics (ECON) section, effectively reducing the number of senior State Department officers dealing with this mix of issues from three to one.  Robert Cekuta, a seasoned diplomat, transferred from Bonn to Tokyo to assume the position of ECON/EST Minister-Counselor.  The five mid- and junior-level foreign service officers from the former EST section continue similar responsibilities in the newly merged group.    If anything, this Department of State action increases the importance of the NSF and other technical agency (NASA, DOE, DHS) offices in the embassy.  

## Europe and Eurasia Program (EE)

**Europe and Eurasia Program (EE)**

**Program development under recent S&T agreements  (Sweden, Norway, Poland, Russia)**
**Doctoral college program with France in energy and sustainability at consortia of universities in both countries**
**OISE/EHR/Wellcome Trust meetings on STEM education (NSF, Oct. 2006; York, England Sept. 2007)**
**European Research Council, European counterpart to NSF, established by the European Commission (January 2007)**
**New UK Research Councils office opening in Washington (Nov. 2007)**

**Notes:**
The European Research Council (ERC), a European-level counterpart to NSF, was established by the European Commission in January 2007.  
-- It has an average annual budget of $1.5 million  for seven years, until 2013
-- It funds frontier research in all academic disciplines, including medical research and the humanities
-- The ERC award is a five-year award to an individual investigator or to an individual team of 100K - 500K Euros per year
-- Merit is the sole criterion for support
-- There are two tracks for these awards -- one for junior investigators (Starting Grants) and one for senior investigators (Advanced Grants)
-- Competitions for these two groups of researchers will be held every year
-- The ERC is composed of a board, headed by Prof. Fotis Kafatos of Imperial College London, and Prof. Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker, former 	President of the German Research Council (DFG), an NSF counterpart
OISE, in conjunction with EHR and ENG, has been working for over a year with the U.S. research community and the French Embassy to put together a plan for a doctoral college - type exchange program.  OISE recently funded a planning grant to support a meeting in October in France for representatives from U.S. universities and their French counterparts to develop plans for a doctoral student exchange program focusing on the fields of energy and sustainability.
One nice element in the current plan is to involve an educational research component right from the beginning to actually provide us with some research data concerning the impact of such a program.
In response to its first call for proposals for its Starter Grants, the ERC received more than 9000 proposals.

## Global Initiatives

**Global Initiatives**

| Fall 2007 OECD Global Science Forum  NSF-initiated activities in (1) research integrity and (2) policy applications of the science of complexity

UNESCO 2007 biennial General Conference featuring President’s Science Advisor and NSF Director and Deputy Director in science ministerial round table

39 IRFP awardees (20 females/19 males) going to 21 countries in 2007; 120 proposals received in 2008 (68 males/52 females)

20 new PIRE awards

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**Notes:**
Global Initiatives is responsible for cross-cutting OISE programs, such as PIRE and the International Research Fellowship Program (long-term research abroad at the postdoctoral level) and NSF participation in international science organizations, including the OECD Global Science Forum, Human Frontier Science Program, and UNESCO. Global Initiatives notable activities in 2007 are:  selection of 20 new PIRE awardees; 39 IRFP awards with more than half female recipients; NSF leadership in new Global Science Forum activities, namely, exploration of (1) Establishing an international coordinating committee to promote cooperation on research integrity and (2) international research cooperation on complex systems enabling better prediction of consequences of science policy actions.  NSF is taking a leadership role in the UNESCO 2007 General Conference through participation of Drs. Bement and Olsen in science ministerial on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development and the Role of UNESCO. 

- PIRE I Awards

- PIRE II Awards

**Notes:**
Countries involved with the PIRE I (12 awards) and Pire II (20 awards) competitions.  We are hoping to involve more developing countries in future PIRE activities.

Elizabeth Lyons and Ed Murdy will discuss the PIRE program in more detail this afternoon.

## Slide 30

| O/D Leadership in Science Diplomacy

Dr. Bement serves as the U.S. Chair of the U.S. –Pakistan Joint Committee on Science and Technology

UNESCO:  Dr. Bement, is Vice-Chair of the U.S. National Commission’s Natural Sciences Commission and  Dr. Olsen is a member of the Review Committee for UNESCO’s Science Programs

Dr. Bement participates in the annual meeting of the G-8 Heads of Research Councils.  In 2007, the U.S. hosted the meeting at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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| O/D Leadership in Science Diplomacy

Dr. Bement was an invited speaker at European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORC) Conference on Peer Review, Prague, October 2006

 Dr. Bement visited New Zealand in January 2007. As follow-up to that visit, he is chairing the U.S.-NZ Joint Commission Meeting, being held in Washington on October 29 together with the NZ Minister of Research, Science and Technology (MoRST), Steve Maharey

Dr. Bement participated in the U.S.-Brazil bilateral meeting, July 2006, in Washington, DC, chaired by Dr. Marburger

Dr. Bement visited Korea in June 2007 for 30th anniversary of KOSEF
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**Notes:**
EUROHORC Conference on Peer Review – Dr. Bement was an invited speaker at an all-European conference, which is unusual.  Provided an opportunity for Bement to meet with his European counterparts

Dr. Bement visits New Zealand.  January 14- 18, 2007.  
NOTES:  En route to Antarctica to commemorate 50 years of U.S.-NZ cooperation on the continent, Dr. Bement visited many universities and research institutes throughout New Zealand, and met with the heads of key science and education agencies. Also attending the commemorative ceremonies and visiting research sites on Antarctica were the U.S. Ambassador William McCormick, NZ’s Prime Minister Helen Clark, and Sir Edmund Hillary. 

Dr. Bement visits Korea - June 7-16, 2007
NOTES: The occasion was the celebration of the 30th anniversary of  KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation), which is modeled after NSF. KOSEF is the host agency for EAPSI in Korea. This was the first time that an incumbent NSF Director has visited Korea.  During this trip Dr. Bement met with the ministers of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOEHRD), the US Ambassador, and visited Daeduk Science City and met with heads of 10+ S&T research and education institutions and foundations.  One outcome of the meetings is that NSF EHR will be hosting a (MOEHRD) science education researcher for a year.  

## Slide 32

| O/D Leadership in Science Diplomacy

Dr. Olsen is Vice President of Human Frontier Science Program Board of Trustees

Dr. Olsen serves as U.S. Chair of the U.S.-EC Biotechnology Task Force

Dr. Olsen led the U.S. Delegation to the recent Global Science Forum (OECD) meeting in Istanbul

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**Notes:**
Dr. Bement visits Korea - June 7-16, 2007
NOTES: The occasion was the celebration of the 30th anniversary of  KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation), which is modeled after NSF. KOSEF is the host agency for EAPSI in Korea. This was the first time that an incumbent NSF Director has visited Korea.  During this trip Dr. Bement met with the ministers of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development (MOEHRD), the US Ambassador, and visited Daeduk Science City and met with heads of 10+ S&T research and education institutions and foundations.  One outcome of the meetings is that NSF EHR will be hosting a (MOEHRD) science education researcher for a year.  

## Slide 33

| National Science Board Reports
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| Task Force on International Science Draft Report out for Public Comment Due November 1, 2007
    nsbinternational@nsf.gov

Task Force on Transformative Research Report Issued  May 2
     NSF Response |  |

**Notes:**
Mark Suskin, OISE representative to the NSF Transformative Research Working Group, will discuss the Report and the NSF response this afternoon.

## NSB Task Force on International Science Recommendations

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| The Office of Science and Technology Policy should work with the Department of State and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make international S&E partnerships a priority for U.S. foreign policy and for U.S. R&D policy.  Towards this end, OSTP should consider re-establishing the position of Assistant Director for International Strategy.

2.   The Department of State and USAID should do more to encourage and help fund S&E Partnerships as instruments of diplomacy that in turn create and help sustain more stable relationships among nations based on the universal language and values of science and engineering, which also build the economic capacity of developing countries.
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_**NSB Task Force on International Science **_**Recommendations**

## NSB Task Force on International Science Recommendations cont.

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| Through the National Science and Technology Council, OSTP should re-establish a committee on international science and engineering to coordinate the activities of the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the various Federal Mission Agencies in international science and engineering.

Each relevant Federal agency should designate a lead official who is empowered to proactively encourage and develop international S&E strategy and coordination.

Congress should amend the Government Performance and Results Act to require Federal agencies to address strategy development and performance planning for international S&E partnerships, and OMB should include this in its Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) guidance to U.S. Federal agencies.

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_**NSB Task Force on International Science **_**Recommendations cont.**

## NSB Task Force on International Science Recommendations cont.

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| Congress should direct the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of State, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to balance U.S. security policies with the needs of international science and engineering including intellectual property protection, management and access to data, export controls, technology transfer, and visa issues.

OSTP and NSF should continue to work with their counterparts in other countries with significant partnership potential to institute common standards and processes: for the review and funding of proposed international S&E projects; to encourage other countries to establish common policies for granting ownership of intellectual property developed with government support; and to define common financial and compliance policies that establish best accountability practices to support international partnerships in S&E research. |  |

_**NSB Task Force on International Science **_**Recommendations cont.**

## NSB Task Force on International Science Recommendations cont.

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| The National Science Foundation should better publicize its practice of encouraging PIs to request modest supplemental funding through their research grants for foreign collaborators from developing countries.
Congress and the Department of State should facilitate “brain circulation”, as opposed to “brain drain”, in employing S&E talent to improve global quality of life and economic circumstances through:
Reinvigorating the interest of American students in S&E through support of study abroad opportunities with foreign scientists and engineers
Streamlining the visa process for foreign scientists, engineers and S&E students;
Encouraging foreign study and collaborative scientific work of American scientists, engineers and students through incentives for return to the U.S. as well as the incentive of work itself; and
Increasing use of U.S. and foreign specialized facilities for S&E.
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_**NSB Task Force on International Science **_**Recommendations cont.**

## NSB Task Force on International Science Recommendations cont.

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| The Department of State should consider elevating the role and career paths of properly qualified Science Advisors at key U.S. Embassies to promote science, engineering and technology because of their many economic and quality-of-life benefits in improving global relations.

The Administration and Congress should enact the recommendation of the National Research Council’s report: The Fundamental Role of Science and Technology in International Development: An Imperative for the U.S. Agency for International Development to renew the once significant science and engineering capacity at USAID and encourage the Agency to better employ science, engineering and technology in fulfilling its international development charge. |  |

_**NSB Task Force on International Science **_**Recommendations cont.**

## NSB Task Force on International Science Recommendations cont.

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| The National Science Foundation should coordinate and cooperate more closely with USAID in support of international science and engineering partnerships intended to build capacity in developing economies.

The Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Department of State, and other U.S. Federal agencies should work with non-governmental organizations and the private sector in utilizing S&E partnerships for improving relations between countries and improving the quality of life and environmental protection in developing countries.
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_**NSB Task Force on International Science **_**Recommendations cont.**

## Sigma Xi Workshop Report

_**Sigma Xi Workshop Report**_
*Embracing Globalization:  Meeting the Challenges to U.S. Scientists and Engineers*
-                     July 2007

| Dr. Elizabeth Kirk was the PI on the NSF award for the  NSF supported workshop. Dr. Gretchen Kalonji was a member of the steering committee.
Participants in the Sigma Xi workshop made more than 40 recommendations for education, research and industry. |  |
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| Need to develop a culture within the U.S. S&E community that embraces international engagement and sees that global competence is a fundamental part of training scientists and engineers. |
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**Notes:**
INPUT RECEIVED FROM JEAN HUDSON:
The Sigma Xi report on "Embracing Globalization" was developed from a White Paper on "The Globally Engaged Workforce" prepared by OISE and EHR staff in 2006.  It is a topic of interest to both organizations.  The phrase "globally engaged workforce" has appeared regularly in NSF's strategy, planning, and budget documents, but without further definition or specific programmatic activities to implement the concept. 
The White Paper recommended that NSF sponsor a workshop on that topic to explore how the concept could be developed and what steps NSF might take to implement it.  EHR and OISE jointly funded Sigma Xi to hold such a workshop, which occurred in September 2006.  The PI is Dr. Betty Kirk, who is present at the Advisory Committee's meeting today.  Dr. Kolanji was a member of the workshop's steering committee. 
The workshop report, "Embracing Globalization:  Meeting the Challenges to US Scientists and Engineers," was finalized in the summer of 2007, and an abbreviated version appeared as a "tip-in" in Sigma Xi's publication for its members, The American Scientist.  Attendees at the workshop demonstrated a number of successful models of global engagement, at all levels of STEM education, in industry, and at the state level.
Selected recommendations appear in the Sigma Xi tip-in for NSF, for all research and education activities, and for industry.  Hard copies of the tip-in, the executive summary, and the full report are available to all participants and observers at the Advisory Committee meeting.
We seek the Advisory Committee's advice on how NSF might implement the report's recommendations.

## Sigma Xi Workshop Report

_**Sigma Xi Workshop Report**_

| Recommendations to the National Science Foundation:

Embed global competence skills sets in all of the Foundation’s research and education programs.

Sponsor programs in which members of industry, government and academia can discuss together how to achieve global competence.

Work to convince the public and policymakers of the importance of achieving global competence.

Promote the adoption of proven models of global engagement at academic institutions nationwide.
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## Slide 42

| OISE and the NSF Directorates
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| Working together to:

Identify international research and education priorities
Identify new international co-funding opportunities
Co-fund strong international collaborations
Provide expertise and reviewers
Promote cooperation with international science organizations |  |

**Notes:**
At the December 2006 meeting, the Advisory Committee asked that future agenda include presentations from Assistant Directors on their international programs and the international interests of the other parts of NSF.   

Dr. Cora Marrett, Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources and Dr. Wanda Ward, Executive Officer of EHR are here will discuss the international interests of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources after the coffee break.

## Slide 43

|                OISE and the NSF Directorates
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| International Collaboration in Chemistry between U.S. Investigators and their Counterparts in Germany, United Kingdom and China (NSF-07-593) was developed with guidance from OISE.

International Research Experiences for Engineers (IREE) (NSF-07-32) is a supplements program sponsored by the Directorate for Engineering with co-funding from OISE.  In FY 2007, 132 awards were made for at total of $3.9M ($1.7M from OISE).  New for 2007: Participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

OISE provides support and advice on visa related correspondence with NSF clientele and manages the F-1 Visa Waiver provisions for NSF to act as an Interested Federal Agency.

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**Notes:**

The solicitation is "International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts in Germany, United Kingdom and China" (NSF-07-593).  It's new this year and replaces one that was solely with Germany.  OISE did provide co-funding under the earlier one and probably will under the new one (not a separate pot, just out of regional programs at the discretion of program managers).   Plans include adding France, Japan and other countries to future solicitations.
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IREE: A supplements program sponsored by NSF’s Engineering Directorate IN FYs 2006 and 2007 to:
Leverage international partnerships to enhance education and research innovations in U.S. to:
Provide international perspective to U.S. engineering faculty and students
Focus on medium duration (3-6 mo.) travels to foreign institutions/laboratories and target early-career researchers

## Slide 44

| NSF Committees, Working Groups, etc.
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| Impact of Proposal and Award Management Mechanisms (IPAMM)

Broadening Participation

International Cooperation with Developing Countries
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**Notes:**
Note:  These topics will be covered later in the day.

11:15	 IPAMM – Joanne Turnow, Chair of the study

1:00  Broadening Participation Working Group 
	Co-Chairs – 	Celeste Rolfing and Victor Sanitago 
         and OISE Representative Robb Winter

2:00  International Cooperation in Developing Countries Working Group – 
	Wayne Patterson, Chair

## Slide 45

| International Polar Year (IPY)
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| NSF FY 2007 IPY Solicitation had three emphasis areas
Understanding Change
Human/Biotic Systems
Education
Goals include encouraging interdisciplinary work and new international collaborations 

Build on prior IPY investments
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## Slide 46

| International Polar Year (IPY)  

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|  Solicitation identified ~$42M available
 Received 376 proposals that requested $207M
 Anticipate 87 awards receiving ~$46M

In FY 2007/2008 OISE will fund 8-9 projects  for approximately $1M
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