Announcements:

High Success Rates of Israelis in the NSF-BSF programs - statistics are now available.

25% Cap on Success Rates in the Regular Program will be applied starting in 2017

Regulations for 2017 Regular Grant Program now availble

Support for the NSF-BSF cooperation is now part of the new five-year plan of the Israeli Higher Education Council

A new NSF-BSF program in Chemical Engineering is expected soon

Two new Transformative Science grants have been made in the 2016-17 round of proposals

In 2018 ALL NSF-BSF programs will have only a single round of submissions

Changes in the classical BSF program: Psychology (except Psychobiology) and Ecology have been moved to the alternate years

New Travel Grants to PhD students were approved

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The NSF will award travel grants U.S. applicants in the regular 2016 BSF program in Computer Sciences

You can download Prof. Rosenzweig's NSF-BSF presentation here.

We have put together a short presentation with tips for Israeli PIs who are interested in submitting an NSF-BSF proposal.


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