The Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport has asked universities to nominate replacements for the 19 members of the National Research Council (CNCS), Romania's
main research funding agency.
These tasks fall in the hands of the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the country's
main research funding agency — a cross between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States.
Not exact matches
The Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK's main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical s
Research Council (EPSRC) is the UK's
main agency for
funding research in engineering and the physical s
research in engineering and the physical sciences.
The
main Dutch
funding agency, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) in The Hague, joined the movement; it has made OA publishing compulsory for papers resulting from all research projects it funded after 1 January — with a preference for
Research (NWO) in The Hague, joined the movement; it has made OA publishing compulsory for papers resulting from all
research projects it funded after 1 January — with a preference for
research projects it
funded after 1 January — with a preference for Gold OA.
The new project is run by an alliance of 10 major
research bodies, including the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Max Planck Society, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany's
main funding agency.
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 r
Research Council (ERC), the European Union's
main funding agency for basic
researchresearch.
McKeon is a prominent former banker and chair of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
Research Organisation, its
main agency for science
funding.
The German
Research Foundation, the country's
main science
funding agency, has set an upper limit of $ 2000 per published article.
But interest appears to be growing, and thanks to the work of an enthusiastic advocate, ecologist Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch parliament adopted a motion last year asking the country's
main funding agency, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO), to set up a SOFA pilot project.
The three
main areas of R&D (basic
research, applied
research, and development) are
funded by many different
agencies.