Multilateral Partnerships Leveraging Excellence
Funds the US side of research partnerships spanning at least three countries, on challenges no narrower team could reach.
Some research problems are genuinely global, and NSF's international office built this programme for them. It funds ambitious multilateral research partnerships that leverage research excellence in the United States and elsewhere, and it also wants to advance understanding of what makes multilateral collaboration work — an honest acknowledgement that funders, institutions and researchers alike hav…
US-led international multilateral research partnerships spanning at least three countries, on urgent research or societal challenges of global importance including critical and emerging technology, plus advancing understanding of what makes multilateral collaboration effective.
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