International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts in Germany, United Kingdom and China

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International Collaboration in Chemistry between US Investigators and their Counterparts in Germany, United Kingdom and China: The National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks to enhance opportunities for collaborative activities between U.S. and foreign investigators. To realize this goal the Chemistry Division at NSF has partnered with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the United Kingdom and the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC). NSF Chemistry will accept collaborative research proposals in chemistry that establish new bilateral collaborations between U.S. investigators and investigators from Germany, United Kingdom or China. The proposals will be written in English. The program seeks new and highly innovative 3-year collaborative projects that break new ground and demonstrate high level of synergy between the collaborating investigators. The program will not accept proposals for projects that were funded in the past or are currently funded by other funding sources. The program will also not accept proposals for projects that largely overlap or are closely related to research projects that are currently carried out in the collaborators’ laboratories. The proposed 3-year projects must be in areas that are supported by the NSF Division of Chemistry programs in Analytical and Surface Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. The program encourages the development and use of cyber infrastructure to facilitate communication, data sharing and remote control of instrumentation to increase the level of synergy of the proposed projects. The program also encourages meaningful participation of graduate students, postdoctoral research associates and junior investigators in the proposed international research collaborations since it seeks to develop a diverse, globally-engaged, U.S. science and engineering workforce. Research activities of U.S. graduate students, postdoctoral research associates and junior researchers, including those from underrepresented groups, in the laboratories of international collaborators should be an integral part of proposals submitted to this program.