Deadline: 10 April 2014
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) is inviting applications from young American or Israeli researcher for Professor Rama Rahamimoff Travel Grants program. The grant is for the visit to the other country (US to Israel for American researcher and Israel to US for Israeli researcher) to meet the research requirements (facilities or expertise) not available in their home countries. The trip can be of maximum 2 months period.
Eligibility Criteria –
- US and Israeli citizens 35 years of age or younger are eligible to apply. American and Israeli students doing research in other countries are not eligible.
- Applicants must be conducting supervised research towards a PhD in an accredited higher education institution, or in a non-profit research institution (government or other, including hospitals).
- Students in their last year of PhD studies are not eligible to submit applications to the program.
- Applications must be in eligible areas of research as supported by BSF.
- Previous recipient of the grant is not eligible to submit application.
- Each Israeli University can submit applications for maximum 5 Israeli and 5 Amrican students.
How to Submit the Application?
- Israeli Students – Submit through the University they will graduate. Application cover page must be signed by the applicant and institutional authority of the university.
- American students – Submit through the Israeli university which they wish to visit. The Israeli host should deliver the application to the relevant office in his/her university, which will transfer it to the BSF. Application cover page must be signed by the applicant and institutional authority of both the American as well as Israeli University that will submit her/his application.
Application materials include – Cover and Signature page, letter of support from the applicant’s supervisor, letter of acceptance and support from the intended host scientist, and curriculum vitae of the applicant.
Prof. Rami Rahamimoff (1937 – 2008), professor of physiology at the Hebrew University, was a world renowned scientist who played a key role in the leadership and governance of the Binational Science Foundation (BSF). BSF established in 1972 aims to strengthen the U.S.–Israel partnership through science, and promote world-class scientific research for the benefit of the two countries and all mankind. BSF grants have been a major source of funding for Israeli scientists, and have facilitated access to leading U.S. investigators and to the unrivaled infrastructure of American science. The BSF travel grant has benefit the entire Israeli scientific community as well as the US participants.
For more information, please visit Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grants.
