Announcements

The deadline for submission of applications to the regular grant program of the BSF is postponed to Thursday, Nov. 21, at 5 pm, for all PIs and research authorities in institutions located in Rehovot and southward.

PIs from other institutions who live in that area and are seeking the same postponement are welcome to contact the BSF office and they will be dealt with on a case by case basis.

Any investigator who is not submitting by the original date of Nov. 20, has to upload to the BSF submission system the following data:

      * All parts related to the cover page, including the area of research of the proposal.

      * All required documents from the collaborating investigators.

      * Abstract (needed for exact determination of the area of research; may be able to update prior to the final submission).

The deadline for submission of applications to the Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grants for Young Researchers (PhD students) program has been extended from Nov. 7, 2019 to Nov. 25, 2019.

We would like to thank Prof. Keith Dienes, from the physics division at NSF, for his very informative talk about the NSF-BSF program.

His presentation can be downloaded here.

The BSF website is open for the submission of applications for 2019 BSF Research Grants.

The present Executive Director, Dr. Yair Rotstein, will be retiring in 2020 from the BSF after 16 years. The BSF Board has formed a search committee, which published the following invitation for suitable candidates to apply for the position, with the Oct. 2, 2019 deadline:

A PDF version is available here.

The Instructions and Related BSF Regulations for Online Submission of Applications for the 2019 BSF Research Grants Program (Regular) have been updated and are now available on the website.

The Submission deadline is Nov. 20, 2019. To download the documents, and read about the program click here.

The BSF Website will be open for online submissions starting September 1, 2019.

We are happy to inform you that BSF and the National Science Foundation (NSF) are expanding their cooperation to include three additional program areas – Mathematical, Astronomical, and Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences – making Israel the NSF’s most active international partner. It is now possible to submit to the NSF joint applications by U.S. and Israeli scientists also in these disciplines, effective immediately. These latest agreements are in addition to the 12 NSF division programs and three interdivisional programs (two of which involve the NIH as well) that already jointly fund the wide spectrum of scientific research between the two countries.

105 BSF Research Grants have been recently awarded in the BSF’s 2018 Regular Research Grants Program.

12 PhD students from Israel and USA were recently awarded  BSF Travel Grants in the framework

of the 1st round of Prof. Rahamimoff Memorial Program for Young Scientists for 2019.

You can see a full list of grantees here.

The submission deadline for the 2nd round of this program is Nov. 7, 2019.

The BSF Board of Directors have decided that a 25% cap on the success rates will be applied to the Regular Research Grants program, starting with the 2017 applications.

It is likely to reduce the number of grants in the regular program, particularly in the Exact and Physical Sciences years, in which there are areas of research that enjoyed very high success rates.

The Israeli Council of Higher Education has included support for the joint funding programs of Israel with the NSF in its new multiyear funding program. The support for the NSF-BSF programs will be about 190 m shekels, spread over the next five years. This is secured, stable funding for the NSF-BSF cooperation, but is not enough presently to support all the active programs. As a result, all the programs in Social Sciences have been suspended.