MOST: Israeli–Taiwanese Cooperation in Nanotechnology and Medical Devices

Call for Proposals for Israeli –Taiwanese SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH COOPERATION
2010-2012

Within the framework of the Agreement  between the Economic and Cultural Offices in Israel and Taiwan,  Taiwanese and Israeli research teams are hereby invited to submit joint research proposals  in NANOTECHNOLOGY and MEDICAL DEVICES. (Projects that combine nanotechnology and medical devices will get high priority)  to be carried  out  jointly by Israeli and Taiwanese scientists.

B. MODE OF COOPERATION
    Cooperation may take the form of:
• Complementary research activities,  where interdependent subprojects of a single program are conducted simultaneously in Taiwan and in Israel with online mutual updating and evaluation
• complementary methodological approaches to a joint problem is conducted in Taiwan and in Israel with online mutual updating and evaluation
• The work program should include mutual visits (see E) and participation in a final workshop (see H 5 b.3)

C. LEVEL OF FUNDING AND PROJECT DURATION
Total budget of the call is 300,000$ for 2 years, for each side. 
Funding will be given to projects requiring a budget of up to 50,000$ for each side (25,000$ per year for each side). Projects should be planned on a two year basis.

D. ELIGIBILITY
1. Proposals must involve an Israeli Principal Investigator and a Taiwanese Principal Investigator.
2. The Principal Investigator on each side must be affiliated to an academic institution or research institute.  Researchers from industry may take part in the program as partners in teams headed by Principal Investigators from an academic institution or research institute.
3. The Principal Investigators are expected to take responsibility for the execution of the research work throughout the duration of the project.

 E. Mutual Visits

Participating scientists are encouraged to spend an extended period of time visiting in the institutions of their counterparts. So long as the visits are an integral part of research cooperation, international travel and local expenses  of visiting scientists ( for the individual visits as well as for  the final workshop) will be included in the budget proposal  of the project – the expenses for the Israeli visiting Taiwan will be included in the Israeli part of the budget and the expenses of the Taiwanese  visiting Israel – in the Taiwanese part of the budget 

F. EVALUATION CRITERIA & PROCEDURES

      Proposals will be evaluated through a joint procedure based on recommendation of scientific committees.   Evaluation will be   
      based on:
a) Scientific merit;
b) Extent of  existing collaboration between the Taiwanese and the Israeli research teams.
c) Expected  level of  collaboration between the Taiwanese  and the Israeli research teams

G. For Israeli research teams:
Proposals should be submitted in English on the attached forms in ten (10) copies to the Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel, to the following addresses.  In addition: The application forms in Israel should be submitted electronically to the following E-mail:  Taiwan@most.gov.il   (in ‘pdf’ or ‘doc’ format)

Israel:

Mr. Avi ANATI
Deputy Director General
for Planning & Control
"For Israel-Taiwan Scientific Cooperation"
Ministry of Science and Technology
P.O. Box 49100
Jerusalem 91490

All applications must be received not later than
 24 February 2010 until 12:00 AM.

www.technion.ac.il/~research/Taiwan_call_2010.doc