Brief Description:

Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) is an NSF-wide program that supports international activities across all NSF supported disciplines. The primary goal of PIRE is to support high quality projects in which advances in research and education could not occur without international collaboration. PIRE seeks to catalyze a higher level of international engagement in the U.S. science and engineering community. This PIRE competition will be open to all areas of science and engineering research which are supported by the NSF. Harvard University, as one institution, is limited to putting forward one (1) preliminary proposal for this opportunity. The NSF Preliminary proposal deadline is October 21, 2014. Full Proposals, due to the NSF by May 15, 2015, will be by invitation only.

Description:

The PIRE Program supports four objectives: 1. Support excellence in science and engineering research and education through international collaboration. 2. Promote opportunities where international collaboration can provide unique advantages of scope, scale, flexibility, expertise, facilities, or access to phenomena, enabling advances that could not occur otherwise. 3. Engage and share resources and research infrastructure within and across institutions to build strong international partnerships. 4. Create and promote opportunities for students and early career researchers to participate in substantive international research experiences.

Characteristics of PIRE projects: PIRE partners share an ambitious research vision that integrates research and education. The project theme may involve any area of science and engineering research that is supported by the NSF. PIRE projects may vary in size and exhibit diverse forms of organization, collaboration, and operation suited to their individual needs. PIRE projects must include collaboration with foreign research partners and international research experiences for students to promote a diverse internationally competitive science and engineering workforce.

Contact Information:

For questions about this application, please contact Autumn Bennett at autumn_bennett@harvard.edu

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