The sponsor supports joint seminars and workshops in East Asia and the Pacific which facilitate U.S. participation in international science and engineering activities.
Eligible applicants are U.S. universities, non-academic institutions, scientists, and engineers.
Award amounts vary. The sponsor supports projects which facilitate U.S. participation in international science and engineering activities that promise substantial benefits to research and education enterprises. Support is available for joint seminars and workshops involving groups of U.S. and foreign counterpart investigators, intended to provide opportunities to identify common priorities in specific, well defined research areas and, ideally, to begin preparation of cooperative research proposals. Except in unusual circumstances, such meetings involve no more than a total of thirty participants. More typically, they involve approximately ten U.S. and ten foreign participants, with no more than two U.S. participants from any one institution.