Deadline: 1 June 2018
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is seeking applications for its Science for Peace and Security (SPS) grant programme to promote dialogue and practical cooperation between NATO member states and partner nations based on scientific research, technological innovation and knowledge exchange.
The SPS Programme supports collaboration through three established grant mechanisms: multi-year research projects, research workshops, and training courses. Interested applicants must develop a collaborative activity that fits within one of the following formats:
- Multi-year research & development projects
- Training courses
- Workshops
Key Priorities
- Facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation on issues of common interest, including international efforts to meet emerging security challenges
- Counter-Terrorism
- Energy Security
- Cyber Defence
- Defence against Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Agents
- Enhance support for NATO-led operations and missions
- Provision of civilian support through SPS Key Priorities;
- Provision of access to information through internet connectivity as in the SILK-Afghanistan Programme;
- Cultural and social aspects in military operations and missions ;
- Enhancing cooperation with other international actors.
- Enhance awareness of security developments including through early warning, with a view to preventing crises
- Security-related Advanced Technology
- Border and Port Security
- Mine and Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Clearance
- Human and Social Aspects of Security related to NATO’s strategic objectives
- Any related project clearly linked to a threat to security not otherwise defined in these priorities may also be considered for funding under the SPS Programme.
Eligibility Criteria
The SPS programme is a partnership programme applications for funding must be submitted jointly by a NATO and a partner country Co-Director.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries:
- NATO Countries: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
- NATO Partner Countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Georgia, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic , Malta, The Republic of Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Australia, Colombia, Iraq, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan.
For more information, please visit NATO SPS.
