The Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) serves as a focal point for international science and engineering activities both inside and outside NSF. OISE promotes the development of an integrated, Foundation-wide international strategy, and manages international programs that are innovative, catalytic, and responsive to a broad range of NSF interests. Specifically, OISE supports programs to expand and enhance leading-edge international research and education opportunities for U.S. scientists and engineers, especially at the early career stage. It works to build and strengthen effective institutional partnerships throughout the global science and engineering research and education community, and it supports international collaborations in NSF's priority research areas. The Office carries out its functions through close partnership with the NSF Directorates and through its own program activities. OISE is housed within the Office of the NSF Director since its role is Foundation-wide. OISE encourages funding applicants to include an international component in proposals submitted to the appropriate research directorate.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” With this goal as a starting point, the Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.
Tenured academic scientists and engineers from U.S. institutions of higher learning are eligible for selection to be Jefferson Science Fellows. Each Fellow will spend one year at the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for an on-site assignment in Washington, D.C. that may also involve extended stays at U.S. foreign embassies and/or missions. All JSF assignments will be designed in consultation with regional and/or functional bureaus within the U.S. Department of State/USAID. While in general JSF assignments will involve providing up-to-date expertise in the rapidly advancing STE arenas that routinely impact the policy decisions encountered by the U.S. Department of State/USAID, each Fellow will also be expected to become conversant with the functional operation of the U.S. Department of State/USAID. In doing so, the JSF program complements and enhances the existing efforts by both the continuing employees within the U.S. Department of State/USAID and other temporary fellows supported by non-governmental organizations who address STE issues. Following the fellowship year, the Jefferson Science Fellow will return to his/her academic career, but will remain available to the U.S. Department of State/USAID for short-term projects over the following five years.
These fellowships, sponsored and funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, support collaborative scientific research opportunities in China for young scientists. The fellowships provide financial support for individual scientists to conduct cooperative research at one of the institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) for 12 months, and potentially renewable for up to a further 12 months. Applicants for this fellowship must apply collaboratively. Scientists wishing to apply should begin by exploring research opportunities with potential collaborators within the Institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Applications are accepted twice annually from March 1 - 15 and September 1 - 15.
The Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) sponsors and the APS administers the exchange of physicists and physics graduate students between India and the United States. The APS-IUSSTF Professorship Awards in Physics permit professors from India and the U.S. to deliver short courses or a lecture series in the other country. The APS-IUSSTF Physics Student Visitation Program is intended for graduate students who wish to pursue opportunities in physics such as to attend a summer institute or work temporarily in a laboratory.
The Sociedade Brasileira de Física (SBF) and the American Physical Society (APS) are pleased to announce the launch of a new exchange program for physics graduate students and professors in the U.S. and Brazil. Through the Brazil-U.S. Physics Student Visitation Program, graduate students in the U.S. and Brazil can apply for funds to travel to the other country in order to pursue a breadth of opportunities in physics. Such opportunities might include: 1) attending a short-course or summer institute; 2) visiting with a professor in his/her field of study; 3) working temporarily in a laboratory; or 4) any other opportunity that the student and professor believe is worthy of travel support. Grants for students are for up to USD $3,000. The Brazil-U.S. Professorship/Lectureship Program funds physicists in Brazil and the United States wishing to visit overseas to teach a short course or deliver a lecture series in the other country. The professorship grants are for up to USD $4,000.
DAAD's offerings don't end once you finish your dissertation--we hope to help you build ties with institutions in Germany as well as successfully complete your own research. Click on the links below to learn how you may be able to lead a group of students to Germany for a short stay, find funding for a conference, or bring a German professor to your department for a visiting professorship.
We promote academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany. Our research fellowships and research awards allow you to come to Germany to work on a research project you have chosen yourself together with a host and collaborative partner. If you are a scientist or scholar from Germany you can profit from our support and carry out a research project abroad as a guest of one of more than 24,000 Humboldt Foundation alumni worldwide - the Humboldtians. As an intermediary organisation for German foreign cultural and educational policy we promote international cultural dialogue and academic exchange.
