NATO Science Programme

International scientific cooperation programmes

The NATO Science Programme
Bringing scientists together for progress and peace

The NATO Science Programme offers support for collaboration in civil science between scientists of countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. The purpose of the Programme is to stimulate the cooperation which is essential to progress in science, to create enduring links between researchers, and to help sustain the scientific communities in transition in NATO's "Partner" countries (see countries page 4). The Programme is structured in four sub-programmes, encompassing a variety of collaborative support mechanisms to achieve different objectives:
Science Fellowships to train young scientists;
Cooperative Science & Technology to initiate cooperation and create enduring links;
Research Infrastructure Support to provide basic infrastructure and guide organization of research;
Science for Peace to strenghten industrial research and development.

Scientists from NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue countries are also eligible to participate in the support activities of the Cooperative Science & Technology sub-programme. All participating countries are listed at the end of this www page.

Joint applications in all fields of science are invited from researchers in participating countries for Collaborative Linkage Grants or Expert Visits, or to organize Advanced Study Institutes or Advanced Research Workshops - the activities supported under the sub-programme Cooperative Science & Technology. Application criteria, and application forms, are available at the NATO science web site. To be eligible for funding, collaboration must be between scientists in "Partner" or Mediterranean Dialogue countries and scientists in NATO countries. Collaboration between NATO-country scientists exclusively is no longer supported. Details of other grants available are also specified at the web site, including - Science Fellowships and Networking Infrastructure Grants.

Overleaf is a Calendar of Advanced Study Institutes, and Advanced Research Workshops which will take place in 2001. Locations and dates may change. Further information on any meeting, as well as requests to attend, should be addressed to the co-directors listed for the individual meetings. Some grants are available from the meeting directors for participation of Partner-country or NATO-country scientists.
Further meetings will be selected for support during the year, and the Calendar appearing on the web site will be updated continuously.

Scientific Affairs Division
NATO, Boulevard Leopold III, B-1110 Brussels, Belgium

Advanced Study Institutes (ASIs) are high-level tutorial courses of two weeks' duration where a subject is treated in depth by lecturers of international standing. Presentations are made to about 100 scientists or research students already specialised in the field, or who have an advanced general scientific background. Attendance at ASIs is open to all suitably-qualified applicants irrespective of nationality, upon application to the Co-Directors listed below.

Molten Salts: From Fundamentals to Applications
4-14 May 2001 - Kas, Turkey
Co-Directors:
Dr. M. Gaune-Escard, Institute Universitaire des Systemes Thermiques, Technopole de Chateau Gombert, 5 Rue Enrico Fermi, 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France (Fax: 33 4 91117439 E-mail: mge@iusti,univ-mrs.fr)
Prof. Sergiy Volkov, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine
(E-mail: root@ionc.kar.net) SST.976305

Polyoxometalate Molecular Science
September 2001 - Tenerife, Spain
Co-Directors:
Prof. E. Coronado, Universitat de Valencia, Dept. Quimica Inorganica,
Doctor Moliner 50, 46100 Burjasot, Spain
(Fax: 34 96 386 4859 E-mail: eugenio.coronado@uv.es)
Prof. Leonid Kazansky, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
(E-mail: leoka@ipc.rssi.ru) PST.976931

New Frontiers in Mass Spectrometry. Recent Development in Instrumentation and Applications
1-11 Sep 2001 - Tetouan, Morocco
Co-Directors:
Prof. G. Sindona, Universita della Calabria, Dip-to di Chimica, 87030 Arcavacata Di Rende (Cs). Italy
(Fax: 39 984 49 2044 E-mail: sindona@pop3.unical.it)
Dr. Adam Hachimi, University Abdelmaiek Essaadi, Tetouan, Morocco
(E-mail: adam.hachimi@wanadoo.fr) PST.977444

Computational Materials Science
9-22 Sep. 2001 - Il Ciocco, Italy
Co-Directors:
Prof. C.R.A. Catlow, The Royal Institution, 21, Albemarle Street, London W1X 4BS, UK
(Fax: 44 207 670 2920 E-mail: richard@ri.ac.uk)
Prof. E.A. Kotomin, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
(E-mail: kotomin@latnet.lv) PST.976509

In-Situ Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sites
24 May - 2 Jun 2001 - Prague, Czech Republic
Co-Directors:
Prof. Danny Reible, Louisiana State University, HSRC/S&SW, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
(Fax: 225 388 5043 E-mail: reible@che.lsu.edu)
Prof. K. Demnerova, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
(E-mail: demnerok@vscht.cz) EST.976725

Environmental UV Radiation - Impact on Ecosystems and Human Health and Predictive Models
18-28 Jun. 2001 - Il Ciocco, Italy
Co-Directors:
Dr. F. Ghetti, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biofisica, Area della Ricerca di Pisa. Via Alfieri 1, San Cataldo, 56010 Ghezzano Pisa, Italy
(Fax: 39 050 3152760 E-mail: francesco.ghetti@ib.pi.cnr.it)
Dr. Imre Vass, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged. Hungary
(E-mail; imre@nucleus.szbk.u-szeged.hu) EST.977523

Atomistic Aspects of Epitaxial Growth
26-30 Jun 2001 - Corfu, Greece
Co-Directors:
Prof. L.T. Wille, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Physics, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA
(Fax: +1 561 297 2662 E-mail: willel@fau.edu)
Dr. Miroslav Kotrta, AVCR, Praha, Czech Republic
(E-mail; kotrla@fzu.cz) PST.977014

Magnetic Resonance In Colloid and Interface Science
26-30 Jun 2001 - St-Petersburg, Russia
Co-Directors:
Prof. Jacques Fraissard, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Lab de Chimie des Surfaces, CNRS-URA1428, 4 Place Jussieu, Case 196, Tour 54-55, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France
(Fax: 33 (0)1 44 275536 E-mail: jfr@ccr.jussieu.fr)
Prof. Valentin Parmon, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Novosibirsk, Russia
(E-mail: parmon@catalysis.nsk.ru)

Molecular Low Dimensional and Nanostructured Materials for Advanced Applications
3-7 Sep 2001 - Poznan, Poland
Co-Directors:
Prof. A. Graja, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Molecular Physics, ul. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznan, Poland
(Fax: 48 61 86 84 524 E-mail: graja@ifmpan.poznan.pl)
Prof. V.M. Agranovich, Russian Academy of Sciences. Troitsk, Russia
(E-mail: agran@isan.troitsk.ru) PST.977256

Mineral Resource Base of the Southern Caucasus and Systems for its Management in the XXI Century
5-8 Apr 2001 - Tbilisi, Georgia
Co-Directors:
Mr. Georges Morizot, Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, Av. de Concyr, BP 6009, 45060 Orleans Cedex 2, France
(Fax: 33 2 3864 3305 E-mail: g.morizot@brgm.fr)
Prof. Alexander Tvalchrelidze, Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia
E-mail: sandro@kheta.ge) EST.977164

Underwater Failure Mechanisms on Tsunami Generation, Modeling, Tsunami Risk and Mitigation
1-4 May 2001 - Istanbul, Turkey
Co-Directors:
Prof. Ahmet Yalciner, Middle East Technical University, Civil Engineering Department, Ocean Engineering Research Center, 06531 Ankara, Turkey
(Fax: 90 312 2101412 E-mail; yalciner@metu.edu.tr)
Prof. Dr. Efim Pelinovsky, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
(E-mail: enpeli@hydro.appl.sci-nnov.ru) EST.977541

Current Problems of Hydrogeology in Urban Areas, Urban Agglomerates and Industrial Centres
29 May -1 Jun 2001 - Baku, Azerbaijan
Co-Directors:
Prof. K.W.F. Howard, University of Toronto. Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough ON M1C 1A4, Canada
(Fax: 416 287 7279 E-mail: gwater@scar.utoronto.ca)
Prof. Rauf Israfilov, Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan
(E-mail: gia@azdata.net) EST.977464

New Paradigms in River and Estuarine Management
26-28 Mar 2001 - Boise, Idaho, USA
Co-Directors:
Prof. P. Goodwin, University of Idaho, College of Engineering - Boise, 800 Park Blvd., Suite 200, Boise, ID 83712, USA
(Fax: 208 387 1246 E-mail: pgoodwin@uidaho.edu)
Mr. Peter Tomka, Representative of Slovakia to United Nations
(E-mail: mission.sloval@ties.itu.ch) EST.976343

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction
22-27 Apr 2001 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Co-Directors:
Prof. David Briggs, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, Nordolf Place, W2 1PG LondonUK
(Fax: 44 0 207 402 2150 E-mail: d.briggs@ic.ac.uk)
Mr. Spase Vulic, MED-EKDN, Zagreb, Croatia (E-mail; med-ekon@zg.tel.hr) EST.977557

An Evaluation of Progress in Coastal Policies at the National Level: A Transatlantic and Euro-Mediterranean Perspective
1-3 Jun 2001 - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Co-Directors:
Prof. Biliana Cicin-Sain, University of Delaware, Center for the Study of Marine Policy, 301 Robinson Hall, Newark, DE 19711, USA
(Fax: 1 302 831 3668 E-mail: bcs@udel.edu)
Prof. Aleksandra Kornhauser, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
(E-mail: aleksandra.kornhauser@uni-lj.si) EST.977506

Global Atmospheric Change and its Impact on Regional Air Quality - Physical and Chemical Processes in the Atmosphere
29 Jul - 2 Aug 2001 - Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Russia
Co-Directors:
Prof. K.H. Becker, Universitat Wuppertal, Physikalische Chemie / FB 9, Gauss-Sirasse 20, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany
(Fax: 49 202 439 2505 E-mail: becker@physchem.uni-wuppertal.de)
Prof. Igor Morozov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
(E-mail: morozov@center.chph.ras.ru) EST.977492

Countries participating in the NATO Science Programme
Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

EAPC Partner countries eligible for support:
Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan. Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Mediterranean Dialogue countries:
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia.