Sentences with phrase «government research funding agency»

Soon after the failed coup, authorities raided the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, the government research funding agency known by its Turkish acronym TÜBİTAK, arresting dozens.

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Professor Poole is one of a six - member committee appointed to review collaboration between Australia's public universities and publicly funded research agencies, as part of the Federal Government's higher education reform package.

The Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the privateResearch Consortium (IRRC) was created in 1997 with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to provide a venue for linkages among national agricultural research and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the privateresearch and extension systems, government agencies, nongovernment organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Taxpayers fund the government agencies that in turn fund much of the academic research in this country.

Every year, universities, funding agencies, and governments increase their support for new centers, conferences, and research networks on both sides of the ocean.

McGill receives over $ 235 million in research funding annually; currently the university is involved in more than 100 international projects worth in excess of $ 70 million, funded by federal and provincial government agencies, foreign governments, international financial institutions, and private foundations.

It was organised by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), run by the University of KwaZulu - Natal in Durban, with collaborators in the US and funding from the US Agency for International Development and the South African government.

Initiatives include the creation of a new funding agency in 2005, the National Research Agency (ANR, L'Agence nationale de la recherché), a decentralization of universities to give them more independence, and financial incentives to internationalize laboratories, which is part of the «government push to attract faculty from abroad,» he descagency in 2005, the National Research Agency (ANR, L'Agence nationale de la recherché), a decentralization of universities to give them more independence, and financial incentives to internationalize laboratories, which is part of the «government push to attract faculty from abroad,» he descAgency (ANR, L'Agence nationale de la recherché), a decentralization of universities to give them more independence, and financial incentives to internationalize laboratories, which is part of the «government push to attract faculty from abroad,» he describes.

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As a result, neither researchers nor physicians nor the government agencies that fund medical research saw fit to study aging itself.

In future, the money should be open to competition from research council institutes, which are normally funded by block grants, commercial research organisations, and government laboratories and agencies such as the Building Research Establresearch council institutes, which are normally funded by block grants, commercial research organisations, and government laboratories and agencies such as the Building Research Establresearch organisations, and government laboratories and agencies such as the Building Research EstablResearch Establishment.

Similar examples of the federal government at work range from the creation of an industry for producing natural gas from coal seams to the ongoing Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambiAgency — Energy (ARPA - E), a small - scale funding agency with outsized ambiagency with outsized ambitions.

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.

«Magnetic flux lines interfere with the wires» ability to transport electricity, lowering its performance,» says Venkat Selvamanickam at the University of Houston, Texas, where the US government is funding work via its Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy.

Predictably, most of the government funding opportunities in GrantsNet come from the agencies with the largest research budgets: the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and NASA.

Codes of conduct will be needed to establish appropriate norms for government funding and regulatory agencies, for people working both within and outside conventional research settings, for the directors of community labs and for the developers of crowdfunding platforms.

But the board's funding would come from research institutions, giving it a degree of independence not enjoyed by a government agency.»

The report is meant to inform future research directions as well as funding decisions by strategic partners that could include government agencies and the private sector.

Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in civilian research, the work has been done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

The report prioritizes key research areas for government agencies, academia and industry to fund.

Specifically, the agencies that fund researchers, most of the research including my own, is funded by the government.

But New Scientist has learned that plans drawn up by the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, a coordinating group for government agencies, to commission research into treating dip waste to make it more environmentally friendly have recently been dropped because no funds could bResearch, a coordinating group for government agencies, to commission research into treating dip waste to make it more environmentally friendly have recently been dropped because no funds could bresearch into treating dip waste to make it more environmentally friendly have recently been dropped because no funds could be found.

MB - 003 was developed through a decade - long collaborative effort between private industry and the U.S. government, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

The research was funded by the Japanese government's Agency for Medical Research and Deveresearch was funded by the Japanese government's Agency for Medical Research and DeveResearch and Development.

To address this concern, the council, which advises the U.K. government on science and technology issues, recommended last month that universities, industry leaders, and funding agencies develop a national framework for research careers — a conceptual flow chart that describes paths researchers can and do take.

The study was funded by the Flemish Government: Research Foundation — Flanders (FWO), Flanders» Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), iMinds and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Imperial Biomedical Research Centre.

AMSTERDAM — A government plan to radically reform the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), a major research funding agency in the Netherlands, is causing an uproar among sciResearch (NWO), a major research funding agency in the Netherlands, is causing an uproar among sciresearch funding agency in the Netherlands, is causing an uproar among scientists.

Chief government science adviser tapped to head incipient umbrella agency for research funding

«But the big picture right now is funding for research like this is declining rapidly given the current state of government agencies, and it's important for research like this to continue to move forward so we can better understand one of the important and charismatic species in the Northwest and the nation.»

In the coming months, the government is expected to establish an agency akin to the U.S. National Science Foundation that will distribute research funds through competitive, peer - reviewed grants.

The resolution, which includes five Republican co-sponsors, also calls on government funding agencies to reconsider how they classify research.

The report urges Spain to raise the government's «contribution to science and innovation» — currently at 0.61 % — «to 0.7 % of the gross domestic product (GDP) and argues for the creation of a national funding agency that gives out merit - based grants, more autonomy for the universities, and a major overhaul of Spain's national research centers.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on the research they fund to set policies, according to a report released this week by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

Suber notes the stark contrast between the quiet brokering of SCOAP3 and the battles playing out over mandates for open - access publication by research funders such as foundations and government agencies (see Nature 486, 302 — 303; 2012).

Government officials this week told staff at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), the nation's lead polar science agency, that planned funding cuts mean the division will be seeking «[a] lternative funding models» for research, including philanthropic donations and commercial sponsorship.

Responding to concerns from advocates for public access to government - funded research, the House of Representatives science committee has agreed to shorten the deadline within a draft bill requiring federal agencies to provide free access to scientific papers that they supported.

U.S. federal agencies have taken the lead in funding research in computational neuroscience, and the majority of government funding comes from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Although scientific merit may still be the key to the success of smaller research grants, such as those from China's National Natural Science Foundation, it is much less relevant for the megaproject grants from various government funding agencies, which range from tens to hundreds of millions of Chinese yuan (7 yuan equals approximately 1 U.S. dollar).

This week, the U.S. Congress passed a bill to fund the government until the end of the fiscal year, and research agencies now know how much to spend in 2013.

Government agencies in the United Kingdom do a poor job of keeping tabs on research they fund to set policies, according to a report released today by Sense About Science, a London - based group that advocates for the use of scientific evidence in policymaking.

Sedley recommended that the government create a central public database of all the research it funds, and that agencies commit to prompt publication of findings.

These include government or private nonprofit funders of basic research, such as the National Institutes of Health in the United States or the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingdom; academic scientists; multinational pharmaceutical firms and smaller biotech companies; and, at the end of the line, government regulatory agencies responsible for drug approval.

The OSR pre-award office is responsible for reviewing all research applications to government and private funding agencies to ensure that proposal - related costs are accurate and proposals comply with Sponsor and the University guidelines.

As energy - efficient technologies continue to attract funding from government and private research agencies, Miller said he hopes that by 2016, solar cell technology will reach cost parity with other fuels and be used in many homes across the country.

«This analysis comes at a time when following the transfer of scientific knowledge into industry and the economy is a growing priority for governments and research funding agencies, said David Swinbanks, founder of the Nature Index.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Ad hoc reviewer for several grant agencies including: Wellcome Trust, European Commission, Medical Research Council of UK, Funding for Scientific Research of Belgium, National Research Agency of France, National Cancer Institute of France, the Broad Foundation for Scientific and Medical Research of USA, Health Research Board of Ireland, Italian Ministry of University and Research, Italian Ministry of Health, Italian National Institute of Health, Italian - German University, Italian National Research Council, Al Neelain University of the Islamic Republic of Sudan, Cancéropôle Grand Ouest of the French government, Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Science, Technology and Space State of the State of Israel, Cancer Research Wales, Kuwait University.

Besides direct government grants, the most important state research funders are research councils and other agencies.

The MolSSI receives funding from the National Science Foundation, an independent U.S. government agency that supports research and education in science and engineering.