Sentences with phrase «basic research agency»

The scientists» protest started in mid-June with a plenary meeting of the National Committee on Scientific Research of the main basic research agency, the CNRS.

BERLIN — A report issued on 19 December by a group of experts assembled to advise European research ministers called for the creation of a $ 2.5 - billion - a-year European Union - wide basic research agency.

PARIS — France's mammoth basic research agency has come under blistering attack from the nation's government accounting body.

It's a small but important silver lining in a year when even NSF's best friends in Congress have turned their backs on the Obama Administration's request for a 13 % increase for the basic research agency as part of the political consensus on reducing the federal deficit.

«We are delighted that the Administration has seen fit to keep a distinguished social scientist and public servant in the top leadership of the world's premier basic research agency,» says Howard Silver, executive director of the Consortium of Social Science Associations in Washington, D.C. «We look forward to continuing to work with her in ensuring NSF's support for all the sciences in its research and education programs.»

The proposed budget for NSF will reverse the basic research agency's growth to fiscal year 2007 levels.

Cracks in the Monolith - CNRS Begins a Long - Awaited Reform 27 May 2005 The chiefs of France's CNRS - the largest basic research agency in Europe - have adopted a plan to shake the place to its foundations.

Between 2019 and 2016, the Administration's enacted and proposed budgets would add $ 42.6 billion to the 2008 budgets for these basic research agencies, with a special emphasis on encouraging high - risk, high - return research and supporting researchers at the beginning of their careers.

Not exact matches

Mona Siddiqui, chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services commented that in tackling the issue the government was still struggling to get various agencies (mostly their lawyers)-- FDA, CMS, CDC — to unify around definitions of basic terms like «research.»

In a survey of Presbyterian laity, for example, two - thirds agreed strongly with the statement that «peacemaking is not simply «another political issue» but is a basic aspect of the Christian faith» (Research Division of the Support Agency, Presbyterian Panel, January, 1982).

Agencies determine what proportion of a program's R&D is basic research.

► «Outrage has greeted a decision by the head of Australia's premier research agency to cut jobs and eliminate work in certain fields, including basic climate science,» Leigh Dayton wrote this morning at ScienceInsider.

Basic Research by Agency: Most R&D programs contain a mix of basic research, applied research, and developBasic Research by Agency: Most R&D programs contain a mix of basic research, applied research, and deveResearch by Agency: Most R&D programs contain a mix of basic research, applied research, and developbasic research, applied research, and deveresearch, applied research, and deveresearch, and development.

NIH, bastion of basic biomedical research, and the beneficiary of remarkably favorable appropriations action in the last two congressional sessions, is the major winner among R&D agencies, showing a 14.4 percent increase above FY 1994.

The agencies provide data (reported on OMB Circular A-11, Exhibit 44A, «Research and Development Activities») on funding levels for basic research, applied research, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and cResearch and Development Activities») on funding levels for basic research, applied research, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and cresearch, applied research, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and cresearch, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and colleges.

Outrage has greeted a decision by the head of Australia's premier research agency to cut jobs and eliminate work in certain fields, including basic climate science.

All other agencies except NASA (which decreases 2.9 %) would also increase their support of basic research.

[1] These reductions would hit most agencies, including both civilian science and technology programs like the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE), as well as basic and applied research activities in the Department of Defense (DOD).

Specifically, the agencies provide data on funding levels for basic research, applied research, development, construction of R&D facilities, and major capital equipment for R&D (see Definitions for the common definitions that OMB, the agencies, and AAAS use to classify programs as R&D or non-R & D).

Pearl's placement in 2002 at the National Science Foundation, an agency that funds nearly a quarter of all the basic research conducted by U.S. colleges and universities, began a touchstone year focused on improving graduate education in science and engineering.

Its 2014 and 2015 budgets made debilitating cuts to both basic and applied research agencies, and research - industry collaborations.

As mentioned in yesterday's quick summary, the Trump Administration's full budget request is seeking historically large cutbacks in federal science and technology programs, particularly to basic and applied research (see table at right; updated on June 6 with additional agency data).

Specifically, the agencies provide data (reported on OMB Circular A-11, Exhibit 44A, «Research and Development Activities») on funding levels for basic research, applied research, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and colleges (see Appendix 2: DefinResearch and Development Activities») on funding levels for basic research, applied research, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and colleges (see Appendix 2: Definresearch, applied research, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and colleges (see Appendix 2: Definresearch, development, R&D facilities, and R&D support to universities and colleges (see Appendix 2: Definitions).

The federal government classifies research as either basic or applied according to the objective of the sponsoring agency.

I also look into setting up relationships with large science organizations such as the European Space Agency, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, and the Science Museum, so that we can share content at the most basic level or work together on larger projects.

However, the FP is not primarily devoted to basic research and, furthermore, the great majority (95 %) of the funding available for research in Europe is nationally based within the research agencies of the various countries.

The bill specifically requires NIH director Francis Collins to spend 90 % of the agency's budget on extramural activities, 10 % on intramural activities and at least 55 % on basic science, and instructs the agency to maintain at least 16,670 training research awards (a category intended for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows).

When we passed the America COMPETES Act, we bolstered basic funding at the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and we created ARPA - E, an innovative program, modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to encourage the pursuit of high - risk, high - reward renewable, clean energy technology development.

Some science and technology programs within agencies would see their funds increase, but the administration recommends extensive cuts to basic research overall.

«The agency's move meant that six federal agencies that provide the bulk of the nation's basic research funding now have public access policies required by a 2013 White House order.

Its funding priorities are determined every year based on the Science and Technology Basic Plan, which is a midterm national S&T policy revised every five years, explains Takashi Ohama, director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), one of the major research funding agencies.

The last category, «Ideas,» covers the ERC, a new agency that funds basic research.

«Many say that the attempt to streamline the agency... is a threat to basic science and will give nonscientists too much power in the distribution of research grants.»

Spanger - Siegfried said the proposed cuts are already impeding the ability of scientists to perform basic scientific research as the agency grapples with how it can lose such a significant part of its functionality.

As a consequence of its promise for elucidating basic science and its huge potential for meeting pressing human needs, the nascent field is growing as universities, funding agencies, and national governments pour money into new research centers, research networks, and conferences.

It is unclear at this stage just what specific research areas are to be covered by the draft policy, which includes the following statement: «The policy pertains to all research, including animal, human, or basic research, or research training, conducted with grant, contract, or cooperative agreement support from any agency, or office, of the PHS.»

He was also a staunch supporter of the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union's beloved funding agency for basic research, which started giving out grants in 2007 and had a $ 1.8 billion budget laResearch Council (ERC), the European Union's beloved funding agency for basic research, which started giving out grants in 2007 and had a $ 1.8 billion budget laresearch, which started giving out grants in 2007 and had a $ 1.8 billion budget last year.

The fledging Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, whose mission is to quickly translate the best ideas from basic science into budding technologies, avoided falling victim to any partisan battles this year as well.

Many say that the attempt to streamline the agency — which a 2013 evaluation called a «disorderly patchwork» — is a threat to basic science and will give nonscientists too much power in the distribution of research grants.

Today, the European Commission announced that French mathematician Jean - Pierre Bourguignon has been appointed the new president of the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union's main funding agency for basic rResearch Council (ERC), the European Union's main funding agency for basic researchresearch.

Under a new agreement, they will be able to spend up to a year at labs funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Europe's basic science agency.

Lyric, which has received more than $ 18 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to perform basic research into probability - processing technology, is also working on a programming language called Probability Synthesis to BayesiaResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) to perform basic research into probability - processing technology, is also working on a programming language called Probability Synthesis to Bayesiaresearch into probability - processing technology, is also working on a programming language called Probability Synthesis to Bayesian Logic.

«There's a great hunger for research in Germany's university system, and we need greater resources to meet that demand,» says biochemist Ernst - Ludwig Winnacker, president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the granting agency with the biggest pot of basic - research funds for German university scientists.

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

Time will tell whether institutions and funding agencies will sustain support for translational research and continue to plumb the storehouse of basic biomedical advances to help sick people.

ScienceInsider has learned that the European Commission will announce on Thursday that it has heeded the advice of an independent review panel that recommended putting a scientist in charge of the ERC, the E.U's funding agency for basic research.

Six agencies account for more than 95 % of total federal expenditures on basic research, which amounts to about $ 32 billion this year.

Do the basic research budgets in each of the major research agencies suggest significant progress toward closing the innovation deficit?

Funding for the study was provided by Japan Science and Technology Agency Strategic Basic Research Program ACT - C and Grant - in - Aid for Scientific Research (B) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

In the piece Zuber and Holt wrote, «Federal agencies, with bipartisan support, are the primary investor of cutting - edge basic research that fuels industry's ability to harness that knowledge into innovative products and business.