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RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF RFBR DATED DECEMBER 20, 2007
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The Board notes that, during the past period, RFBR:- - carried out work to finance and support projects originated in 2005-07 (15492 projects, including 8663 projects under the competition for initiative-based research projects); - continues work under the main competition of 2008 (11,828 applications in total, including 8,533 applications to implement initiative based research projects and 526 applications to implement publishing projects); - completed competitions in the framework of its new program Young Scientists Mobility; - conducted regional competitions providing for joint funding of research projects by the Foundation and a number of the regional administrations (1,193 projects from 48 regions of Russia were supported); - conducted a merit review of projects under 2008 regional competitions (received were: 1426 applications from 44 regions of the Russian Federation); - held merit reviews and financed 823 projects under international competitions; - held two new competitions with the participation of Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the framework of competitions with the CIS countries; in total 840 applications were received under the competition with the CIS countries; - supported projects to organize Russian and international scientific events within the territory of Russia (804 applications were received, 671 projects were supported); - supported the participation of Russian scientists in international scientific events abroad (3265 applications were received, 1977 projects were supported); - held a competition for oriented basic research projects (1,403 applications were received, 506 projects were supported); - held a competition for projects to organize expeditions and field research in 2007 (232 projects are supported out of 367 submitted applications); - 229 projects were supported under the program for providing support to projects aimed at developing the material and technical basis (MTB) of scientific research; - 254 projects were supported as part of the RFBR publishing competition, 242 monographs were published; - held a competition for popular science articles in 2007, a competition for writing analytical reviews; - over 600 grant holders received online access to journals and databases of 10 foreign scientific publishing houses as part of the program for the development of RFBRs scientific electronic library.
The Board of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research does hereby resolve as follows: 1. The work of the Foundation for the period from March 30, 2007 till December 20, 2007 should be approved; 2. Lists of supported and rejected project proposals to publish materials and the recommendations of expert panels on their funding in 2008 should be approved. 3. Resolutions made by the bureau of the Board of the Foundation for the above period should be approved; 4. Expert panels should be recommended to allocate at least 90% of all funds to support initiative-based research projects when planning expenditures for 2008. 5. RFBR's efforts to organize and hold regional competitions and the signing by RFBR of new agreements with the administrations and regional governments of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the republics of Bashkortostan, Buriatiya, Kareliya, Khakasiya, Khabarovsky Kray, Jewish Autonomous Oblast and with the Siberian and Urals Sections of the Russian Academy of Sciences on holding new competitions should be approved. 6. Lists of supported and rejected regional competition projects and recommendations on funding such projects in 2008 should be approved; 7. RFBRs efforts to hold competitions under existing agreements with foreign partners and also to prepare and enter into international agreements about scientific cooperation should be approved; 8. The successful holding of negotiations with delegations from the following foreign research foundations should be noted: The German Research Society, the Helmholtz Association (HA, Germany), the National Center for Scientific Research (CRNS, France), the National Institute for Agricultural Research (NIAR, France), the Netherlands Association for Scientific Research (NWO), the Spanish National Research Council (SNRC), the Austrian Science Fund (ASF), the Academy of Finland (AF), the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the U.S. Civil Research and Development Foundation (CRDF), the Academy of Romania (AR), the Czech Science Foundation (CSF), the EINSTEIN Consortium (EC, Italy), the Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of the Piedmont Province (Italy), the Ministry for Science, Culture and Sport (MSCS, Israel), the Department of Science and Technology (DST, India), Council for Scientific and Technological Research (Turkey), the National Science Council (NSC, Taiwan), the Agency for Science, Technologies and Research (ASTR, Singapore), the National Council on Science and Technology (Mexico). 9. The results of work visits by representatives of RFBR with the purpose of signing agreements on scientific cooperation, participation in meetings of international scientific organizations and with the purpose of holding negotiations in Germany, France, Britain, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Finland, Czech Republic, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, China, Taiwan, Singapore, the United States, Mexico, Belarus, Tajikistan and Ukraine should be approved; 10. The preparation of new agreements on scientific cooperation with the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), the Ministry of Education and Science (Montenegro), the Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) should be approved; 11. The signing of agreements and supplementary agreements with the German Research society (Germany), the London Royal Society (Britain), the Spanish National Research Council (Spain), the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, Switzerland), the Austrian Science Foundation (Austria), the Department of Science and Technology (India), the Council for Scientific and Technological Research (Turkey), the Community of Baltic Organizations for Science Funding (BONUS) should be approved; 12. RFBRs efforts to organize and hold competitions with the following CIS countries: the Byelorussian Republican Foundation for Basic Research, the Academy of Science of Moldova, the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, the Committee for Coordination of the Development of Science and Technologies under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan should be approved; 13. RFBRs efforts to prepare and sign new international agreement on cooperation with the following academies and research organizations of the CIS countries: the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic (NAS, KR) and the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan) should be approved. 14. The activity of the Foundation carried out within the framework of membership in the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) should be approved. The importance of developing cooperation between the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the IAAS members-states should be approved. 15. RFBRs efforts to support and develop its scientific electronic library should be approved. 16. The work of the Foundation to publish RFBR information and reference materials, including a series of bibliographical directories on publications and final annotated reports under research projects completed in 2006 should be approved. 39. The final distribution of funding by type of activity for 2007 should be approved. 40. The distribution of funding by type of activity for 2008 based on the Foundations planned funding as per draft budget law in the amount of 6,600,611.9 Rubles should be approved. 41. The distribution of funds by knowledge area in the direction Initiative-Based Research Projects and Other RFBR Competitions for 2008 be approved.
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