Ministry of Science & Technology Scientific Cooperation Russia-Israel ERA.Net Rus 2 nd Workshop Moscow, 27.1.2010
Israel As a Scientific Leader Scientific Publications Israel is one of the two world wide leader in scientific publications per capita 1% of the scientific worldwide publications, 2% in mathematics Scientific Citations Israel is the 3 rd worldwide leader in citations per capita. In 6 over 20 scientific fields, Israel is number 1 Scientists Per Capita 0.5% of the overall population. Israel is number 1 with 133 scientists per 10,000 employees Investment Is Science Israel invests more than 4% of the Gross National Product (#1), more than Finland and Sweden (3.3%) 5 Israeli Nobel Prize winners in the last decade 2
Ranking Of The 5 Leaders Per Fields Area Computer science Chemistry Materials Microbiology Mulec. Biology and genetics Physics Agriculture science Astrophysics Earth science Israel Rank Among The 5 Leaders Israel, USA, Swiss, Canada, Denmark USA, Swiss, Israel, Holland, Sweden USA, Denmark, Holland, Israel, Swiss USA, Swiss, GB, Holland, Israel Swiss, USA, Germany, Holland, Israel Swiss, Denmark, USA, Holland, Israel Sweden, GB, Denmark, Canada, Holland USA, Swiss, Holland, Canada, GB USA, Australia, GB, Swiss, France 3
Research in Israel Mind The Gap Directed R&D BASIC RESEARCH Several funding resources mainly in Universities and research institutes STRATEGIC RESEARCH The well known Gray Zone APPLIED RESEARCH Min. of Industry & Trade and Commercial companies 4 "Strategic Research - the Connecting Link"
Ministry of Science, Culture & Sport The Directed R&D
Governmental Funding In Israel Organization Prioritized by Type of R&D Ministry of Education Academic excellence Basic science Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor Ministry of Science and other Governmental Ministries Commercial excellence National priorities Applied and commercial Applied infrastructure Only the Ministry of Science and its related Chief Scientists prioritize their funds per national priorities and long term scientific vision 6
Chief Scientists Forum MOST is head and organizer of the Chief Scientist Forum This forum is responsible to execute the Governmental direction R&D in Israel It includes: Defining national priorities Announcement and review Share infrastructures Meets monthly and activate various sub-committees An observer of the NCRD participates all meetings 7
Ministry of Science & Technology The Ministry of Science & Technology - A Close Look
Vision in Science and Technology Israel as a small country cannot invest in all Spectrums of R&D. There is a need for a national professional guiding hand. Israel as a leading nation in science and technology, strives towards Excellence. The Ministry of Science plays a central role in the shaping and leading the R&D policy of Israel. The Ministry is responsible for determining national priorities, enhancing physical and human resources infrastructures, magnifying the contribution of Israel and implementing the relative advantages of Israel. 10
The MOST Strategic Research Program At least 2 research groups 3 year, 2M NIS fund per research Support activities only in the highest national priorities Outcome: Journal papers, patents, know how, professional manpower. Later on also many start ups and successful companies A complementary student fund program Eshkol fund. Generating a significant growth of the physical and human infrastructures in the selected prioritized directions 11
National Priorities Vertical, Horizontal Biotechnology Water Photonics Advanced IT & Materials Telecom Nanotechnology Energy & Environment Space Science Policy 12
International Scientific Relations Cooperative research programs. Membership in international organizations. Bi-national & international cooperative conferences. Researcher exchanges. 13
Bi-National Research Programs France South Korea China Ukraine Taiwan USA Germany (BMBF+GIF) Croatia India Slovenia Russia Japan 14 UK Italy?
Cooperation Israel - Russia A Framework Agreement with Russia exists since 1994. December 2005 - MOU with the Russian Foundation for Basic Research(RFBR) First Call for proposals January 2006 Areas of the Call: Mathematics, Physics, Geology and Geophysics, Advanced Materials
MOST RFBR Cooperation Overwhelming response to the Call for Proposals 150 submitted proposals MOST response increase of the overall funding. 27 proposals were bilaterally chosen for funding, starting end of 2006. Overall budget: $400,000 per annum for each side = $1.6 million for two years (2006-2008) for both sides.
MOST RFBR Cooperation Second Call for Proposals Mid 2008 (submission October 2008). Areas of the Call: Nano-Technology, Green Energy, Advanced Materials, Computer Vision. 16 project proposals were approved for funding with the overall budget of $1.2 million for two years. 17
Ministry of Science & Technology Russia-Israel Call of Proposal There are 16 joint projects in 4 fields: A.M-Advanced materials - 5 N.T-Nanotechnologies - 7 G.E-Green Energy - 2 C.V- Computer vision - 2
Ministry of Science & Technology Interim Report 2008 Call of Proposal Number of reviewed papers 22 Number of mutual visits 26 (18 from Israel and 8 from Russia) In MOST internal periodic review, number of project that got the excellent grade 5 Publications in Nature 1
RFBR-MOST JOINT PROJECTS 2008
RFBR-MOST JOINT PROJECTS 2008
Proposal For Next Call of Applications Procedure: (i) About 10 projects (ii) 1M RBL (about $35K) per project per year (iii) Call of proposal: Beginning of 2010 (iv) Project initiation on 1/1/2011 Information Science: (i) Cognitive science research (ii) Next generation internet (iii) Super computing Nano Materials: (i) Advanced materials 22 (ii) Nano technology
Proposal For Next Call of Applications MOST Proposal: Information Science: (i) Cognitive science research (ii) Next generation internet (iii) Super computing RFBR Proposal: (i) Advanced materials (ii) Nano technology (iii) Green energy 23 (iv) Information science
Next Call for Proposals A new joint Work Program (or MOU) will be signed shortly, including the agreed upon areas of cooperation. The Call for Proposals will be hopefully issued by the end of February. 24
Organizational Chart for research proposals Minister Policy N.C.R.D Areas of priority Call for research proposals Invitation to researchers to submit proposals Evaluating committee Peer review Administration Scientific evaluation Decision making process by the Ministry Approval Rejection Evaluation process Decision making and implementation 25
Organizational Chart for research proposals Decision making process by the Ministry Proposal update Approval Rejection Agreements with academic institutes Decision making and implementation Scientific and financial reports Payments Over all follow-up of procedures Patents and Commercialism Discussion of results and Intellectual property rights Publications 26
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