The International Desk is in charge of all pre-award aspects for research grants that are internationally funded, such as the funds listed below and other U.S. and European countries foundations and governments.
International Desk
Regular
Supports Israel-U.S. bi-national collaboration
Odd years Medicine and Life Sciences, Even years Exact Sciences and Social Sciences
Grant amount: up to $250,000
Duration: up to 4 years
Success Rates: 25%
Yearly deadline: mid-November
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 15%
Startup
Supports Israel-U.S. bi-national collaboration
Eligibility: 10 years form PhD/MD
Odd years Medicine and Life Sciences, Even years Exact Sciences and Social Sciences
Grant amount: up to $75,000
Duration: 2 years
Success Rates: 35%
Yearly deadline: mid-November
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 15%
BSF-NSF
Supports Israel-U.S. bi-national collaboration
Israeli funding amount of up to $80K/yr for experimental research and $55K/yr for theoretical research
Duration: 2-4 years (depending on the program)
Success Rates: 33%
Yearly deadline: varies according to program
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 15%
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- Guidelines & Forms
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It’s recommended to contact the relevant Program officer (PO) prior to submission. You may send the PO an abstract to ask if your research proposal is appropriate to their program.
Here’s a webinar given by a PO from the NSF with various tips.
Here’s a list of the documents that the Israeli PI should send to the U.S. PI for the NSF submission:
1. Budget and Budget justification. The Israeli PI should open the application on the BSF website in order to fill in the budget and send it to the U.S. PI. Experimental research may ask up to $80k/yr and Theoretical research may ask up to $55k/yr.
2. NSF biosketch.
- Effective October 4, 2021, the page limitation will be increased to 3 pages for each individual identified as senior personnel.
- The NSF requires use of the fillable biosketch PDF template or the use of SciENcv to generate a compliant biosketch. Details, options, FAQs, and template are available here: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/biosketch.jsp
3. List of collaborators. Template must be used. Instructions and template are available here: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/coa.jsp
4. Current & pending support.
- No page limit.
- The NSF requires use of the fillable Current & Pending PDF template or the use of SciENcv to generate a compliant C&P document. Details, options, FAQs, and template are available here: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/cps.jsp
- The NSF-BSF Collaborative proposal will need to be included as a Pending proposal. The dollar amount should be based on the Hebrew U budget.
5. Institutional letter of support. Please send us the application title, your collaborator’s name and affiliation, so we can prepare and send you the letter.
In regard to the BSF submission, only after your collaborator submits the application to the NSF you will need to upload the full proposal that was submitted to the NSF including everything (it’s around 80 pages in a pdf file) with the NSF application number on the cover page. If the file is larger than 3MB, which is usually the case, you need to send it to Yael yael@bsf.org.il, so she can upload it directly. You will also have to fill in the schedule and upload the abstract, lay abstract, update you cv and then submit the BSF application.
PhD Travel grants
Supports travel grants to PhD students
Eligibility: PhD student (not at the satrt of the PhD)
Grants amount up to $6,000
Duration: maximum 2 months
Success Rates: 10 awards per call
Two calls annually deadline: December and May
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- The recipient must inform the BSF on his/her intent to travel to the U.S. two months in advance, cc’ us (us_desk@savion.huji.ac.il), and receive its confirmation.
- The recipient’s supervisor must open a proposal in the ARD research system (funder no. 106).
- Once the proposal is submitted via the research system, the desk will open a budget on the name of the supervisor.
- The supervisor will instruct the recipient about all the relevant travel arrangements (using the budget number via the finance department).
- A month after the recipient’s return he/she shell submit a report to the BSF (cc’ing the American desk).
Grant Management
https://www.bsf.org.il/grant-management/research-grants/notification/
For any financial matter please contact the financial unit International team.
For contractual matters please contact the International desk staff.
Fund contacts:
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Dr. Rachel (Heni) Haring - Assistant Executive Director |
+972-2-5828239 ext.110 |
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Yael Dressler Information Specialist |
+972-2-5828239 ext.103 |
Research Grants
BARD projects, conducted cooperatively by American and Israeli scientists, cover all phases of agricultural research and development, including integrated projects and strategic or applied research. Cooperative research entails active collaboration between Israeli and American scientists.
Grants amount:
Standard track: $310,000 for a 3-year grant
Pioneer Track: $600,000 for a 3-year grant
Duration: 3 years. One year feasibility studies are also funded.
Yearly deadline: Mid September
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 20%
Senior Research Fellowship
Purpose: The objective of the senior Research Fellowship is to promote cooperative agricultural research between established scientists from the United States and hosts from Israel. Such fellowships should provide BARD and its scientists with input into advanced research areas and enhance scientific cooperation.
Award duration: Two to twelve months.
Award amount: $3,000 per month plus a onetime allocation of $2,000 for travel.
Submission date: Yearly, by Mid January
Postdocs
The Vaadia-BARD Postdoctoral Fellowship program is designed to identify and support young scientists who will eventually become leaders in agricultural sciences and technologies in universities and research institutes in the United States and Israel. The primary objective of the fellowship is to enable these young scientists to acquire new skills and techniques while becoming professionally established in the agricultural research community. The program promotes cooperative agricultural research between postdoctoral fellows from one country (the United States or Israel) and established scientists from the other. Recipients will travel to the host country to carry out their research. BARD gives preference to applicants with innovative research topics that are relevant to agricultural issues.
Award duration: One year; successful applicants, with the agreement of their mentor, become eligible for a second year of funding wherein the funding is shared on a matching basis between BARD and the host lab.
Award amount: $55,000 including travel expenses
Submission date: yearly, mid January
Graduate Students
Purpose: To enable Ph.D. students in one country (the United States or Israel) to travel to the other country (Israel or the United States) in order to acquire new skills and techniques in their field of study. The exchange will promote collaboration between scientists of both countries and expose the student to the ongoing research in the other county in the area of his/her present and future research.
Award period: Two to six months.
Award amount: $1,500 per month and $2,000 to cover travel costs.
Submission date: Yearly, by mid January.
Grant Management
https://www.bard-isus.com/documents/index/4
For any financial matter please contact the financial unit International team.
For contractual matters please contact the International Desk staff.
Fund contacts:
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Matias Shocron Projects Administrator |
+972-3-9683980 |
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Miriam Green Controller |
+972-3-9683980 |
ICRF
Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) supports the best and brightest scientists conducting groundbreaking cancer research in Israel.
Proposalcentral - submission portal
Research Professorship Grants
Award amount: $550,000 total
Duration: 5-year period
Eligibility: ICRF Research Professorship grants are highly-competitive, prestigious awards designed to foster maximum productivity in cancer research by a senior researcher who has made outstanding contributions to basic or clinical cancer research. The applicant must have at least eight years of experience beyond the PhD or MD degree; hold the rank of Full Professor or equivalent; and be no less than five years from the usual and customary age of retirement at his or her institution, except in extraordinary circumstances.
Yearly deadline: December
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Research Project Grants
Award amount: $198,000 total
Duration: 3-year period
Eligibility: These grants are intended to support the research of established investigators. Awards are granted with the understanding that they will support specific projects under the direction of designated principal investigators. Preference is given to persons with more than three years of postdoctoral fellowship or equivalent experience prior to the award commencement date.
Yearly deadline: December
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Research Career Development Awards (RCDAs)
Grant amount: $148,000 total
Grant duration: 3-year period
Eligibility: Awarded to promising investigators who have recently established their own laboratories and are on their way to becoming outstanding independent investigators.
Yearly deadline: December
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Acceleration Grants
Grant amount: $154,000
Duration: over a 2-year period
Eligibility: Awarded to investigators proposing highly innovative approaches that promise to pioneer new ways of thinking about cancer biology and therapeutics.
Yearly deadline: December
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Grant Management
For any financial matter please contact the financial unit - International team.
For contractual matters please contact the International Desk staff.
Fund contacts:
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Ellen Rubin |
+1-212-969-9800 ext. 223 |
NIH
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency — making important discoveries that improve health and save lives.
It is recommended to submit a joint application in collaboration with a U.S. PI.
Each funding mechanism usually has a parent or specific calls. It is recommended to consult the scientific contact at the NIH prior to submission.
In order to submit an application, you must have a eRA Commons ID. To obtain one, please contact the International Desk staff .
R01
Used to support a discrete, specified, circumscribed research project
Grant Amount: Advance permission required for $500K or more (direct costs) in any year
Duration: Generally awarded for 3 -5 years
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Overhead: 8% (excluding equipment)
R03
Provides limited funding for a short period of time to support a variety of types of projects, including: pilot or feasibility studies, collection of preliminary data, secondary analysis of existing data, small, self-contained research projects, development of new research technology, etc.
Duration: Limited to two years of funding
Grant amount: Direct costs generally up to $50,000 per year
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Overhead: 8% (excluding equipment)
R21
Encourages new, exploratory and developmental research projects by providing support for the early stages of project development. Sometimes used for pilot and feasibility studies.
Duration: Limited to up to two years of funding
Grant amount: Combined budget for direct costs for the two year project period usually may not exceed $275,000.
No preliminary data is generally required
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type A
Overhead: 8% (excluding equipment)
dbGap
The database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) was developed to archive and distribute the data and results from studies that have investigated the interaction of genotype and phenotype in Humans.
When you are filling out the application for the data use, please use this contact info:
IT Director Contact Information
Name : Ely Levy
Position :Head of System at the School of Computer Science and Engineering
Organization: HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Department : Computer Science and Engineering Division
Street 1: Rothberg Family Buildings Edmond J. Safra Campus
City: Jerusalem State : Zip : 9190401 Country : Israel
Phone : +97225494520 :Email : elylevy@cs.huji.ac.il
And this is the SO contact info:
SO Contact Information
Name: Hani Ben Yehuda
Position: Director, Authority for Research and Development
Organization: HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM
Street 1: Edmond J. Safra Campus
City: Jerusalem State : Zip : 9190401 Country : ISRAEL
Phone: +97226586638 : Email : us_desk@savion.huji.ac.il
Grant Management
For any financial matter please contact the financial unit - International team.
For contractual matters please contact the International Desk staff.
Nexus
The new flagship grants program of the German-Israeli Foundation replaces GIF’s two previous grant programs, the GIF Regular Program and the GIF Young Scientists’ Program, offering a single unified program to fund young scientists and established researchers in parallel tracks.
Focal topics replace the recurring cycles by research area.
The collaborative track for joint proposals by German and Israeli researchers funds projects of up to 4 years, with an annual budget of maximum EUR 150,000 total for all PIs (i.e the maximum project budget is EUR 300,000 for 2 years).
The young investigator track for solo researchers up to 8 years after their doctoral degree funds one-year projects with a maximum budget of EUR 25,000.
The goal of Nexus is to promote scientific excellence through collaboration between German and Israeli teams of scientists.
The application procedure includes a pre-proposal stage, based on which only submissions of the highest scientific excellence are invited to submit a full proposal. Mutual visits in the collaborative track respectively a visit to the partner country in the young investigator track are a mandatory part of the project.
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 10%
Planned calls for proposals (details subject to change)
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STEM |
Social Sciences/Humanities |
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2024 |
Origin of structures in the universe from macroscopic to microscopic scales. This includes the fields of astrophysics (including cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, planets; theoretical and observational astronomy) and high-energy physics (theory and experimental). |
Identity and memory |
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2023 |
Quantum Computing, AI and Data Sciences |
Social inequities and disparities |
GIF Young Scientists’ Meetings
GIF organizes up to 4 scientific workshops per year on varying topics from all areas of research, offering early career scientists a platform to meet, become acquainted with each other’s work, learn about funding opportunities, and discuss their ideas with established scientists in their field of research.
The GYSM are open to doctoral students in the last stages of obtaining their degree, and researchers up to 5 years after receiving their doctoral degree.
Grant Management
For any financial matters please contact the financial unit - International team.
For contractual matters please contact the International Desk staff.
Fund contacts:
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Mina Horesh Deputy Director and Senior Program Manager |
+972-2-6233814 |
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Emma Link Grants Manager |
+972-2-6233814 |
Research Projects
The DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) supports research projects carried out by researchers in Germany in partnership with researchers in Israel, within the framework of individual grants (this may also involve additional partners from the Palestinian Authority or from Israel’s neighboring countries Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria. Partners from the United Arab Emirates can be included however, they cannot recieve funding from the DFG).
In addition to their own funding, researchers in Germany can apply for project-related financial resources for the international parts of the project, which, if the application is granted, are to be passed on to the project partners in Israel/Middle East. These collaborations can be funded for up to six years. First-time proposals cover a period of three years.
Grant amount: Approx. euro 300-400K total
Duration: 3 years
Deadline: All year submission
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Grant Management
For any financial matters please contact the financial unit - International team.
For contractual matters please contact the International Desk staff.
ISF-International
The Israel Science Foundation is the main body supporting breakthrough basic science in Israel, based on scientific excellence within the different fields of knowledge, in a wide variety of funding opportunities. The inetrnational Desk is is carge of the ISF's international collaborations.
ISF-China
Joint NSFC-ISF Research Grant (ISF-China)
Supports bi-national collaboration, one Israeli PI and one Chinese
Research fields differ from year to year (Life Sciences & Medicine, vs. Exact Sciences)
Grants amount: up to 1,080,000 NIS per project
Duration: up to 3 years
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 17%
The process of submission includes two stages - Registration and Submission
ISF-Canada
The Joint Canada-Israel Program
Supports tri-national collaboration One Israeli, One Canadian, and One Low Middle Income Country (LMIC)
Research fields differ from year to year within Medicine
Grants amount: up to 1,300,000 NIS per project
Deadline: January
Duration: up to 4 years
Remuneration for Conducting Research: Type B
Overhead: 17%
The process of submission includes two stages - Registration and Submission
MOST-International
The main goal of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s scientific international relations policy is to strengthen Israel’s international scientific relationships in order to promote and develop the professional scientific capability of Israeli research. In order to achieve this goal, the Ministry has signed bi-national agreements for scientific collaboration with countries in Europe, Asia and America. The agreements enable the funding of joint studies, workshops and committees, as well as reciprocal delegation visits and binational conferences.
DKFZ
The Joint Cancer Research Program with the German National Center for Cancer Research (DKFZ)
Collaboration: Germany
Purpose: Studies funded by this program deal with a variety of fields related to cancer research, including the micro-environment of the tumor, the immune system in the development of tumors, development of substances for cancer treatment, etc.
Award duration: 3 Years
Award amount: € 129,000
Submission date: yearly, July-August. A two-stage proposal process
Joint Water Technologies Program
Collaboration: Germany
Purpose: The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Israeli Ministry of Science (MOST) fund bilateral R&D projects that focus on solutions to the water problems in Israel and its direct neighbourhood and/or Germany. The research should be multidisciplinary and be applicable to the needs of the water sector. In addition to scientific partners, projects should preferably include industrial partners as well as related stakeholders. An annual call for research proposals determines the focus topic of that year.
Award Duration: up to 3 years
Award Amount: € 250,000
Submission date: yearly
Maïmonide
Collaboration: France
Purpose: The aim of this program is to support the development of scientific and technological cooperation between French and Israeli researchers and to strengthen the scientific partnership between research groups from both countries by establishing bilateral research networks, enhancing research cooperation and promoting the exchange of knowledge between Israeli and French scientists. The eligible research topics change with every yearly call for proposals
Award Duration: 2 years
Award Amount: ₪ 300,000 (for the Israeli side)
Submission date: yearly
Joint Program with Italy
Purpose: Within the framework of the Agreement on Industrial, Scientific and Technological Research and Development Cooperation between Italy and Israel are providing financial support for joint Italian-Israeli research projects carried out by scientists from both countries. Each year Italian-Israeli research teams are invited to submit joint research proposals in changing research areas.
Award Duration: 2 years
Award Amount: ₪ 400,000 (for the Israeli side)
Submission date: yearly
Grant Management
For any financial matters please contact the financial unit Israel team 2.
For contractual matters please contact the International Desk Staff.
Fund contacts:
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Alona Cohen Coordinator of research funds and scholarships |
+972-2-411173/170/829 |
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Meira Binyamin Head of Scientific Assistance |
+972-2-5411170/173/800/829 |