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  6. The BRICS STI Framework Programme aims to support excellent research on priority areas which can best be addressed by a multinational approach

Program

The BRICS STI Framework Programme aims to support excellent research on priority areas which can best be addressed by a multinational approach
Program implementation period: 2016.06 - Program short title: BRICS STI framework programme Program full title: The BRICS STI Framework Programme aims to support excellent research on priority areas which can best be addressed by a multinational approach Program website: http://brics.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng/brics Program category: Research

Description:

The BRICS STI Framework Programme aims to support excellent research on priority areas which can best be addressed by a multinational approach. The initiative should facilitate cooperation among the researchers and institutions in the consortia which consist of partners from at least three of the BRICS countries.

As part of the initiative the following research funding organizations from the BRICS countries have agreed to jointly establish a new scheme for funding multilateral cooperative activities:

National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)

Russia:

Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (FASIE)

Ministry of Education and Science (MON)

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)

India:

Department of Science and Technology (DST)

China:

Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

South Africa:

Department of Science and Technology (DST)

National Research Foundation (NRF)

 

Themes

  • Prevention and monitoring of natural disasters
  • Water resources and pollution treatment
  • Geospatial technology and its applications
  • New and renewable energy, and energy efficiency
  • Astronomy
  • Biotechnology and biomedicine including human health and neuroscience
  • Information technologies and high performance computing
  • Ocean and polar science and technology
  • Material science including nanotechnology
  • Photonics

All necessary information is submitted on the competition website http://brics.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng/brics

For additional information, please contact the
 International Offices of SPbPU (Department of International Scientific and External Economic Relations):
195220, Saint-Petersburg, Grazhdansky pr., 28, Academic Building No 15, room 205, tel. 324-0644
ss.antonov@spbstu.ru, k.belyaevskaya@spbstu.ru, anton.evdokimov@spbstu.ru