Americas Opportunities

NSF's Americas Program enables scientific research, engineering and educational cooperation with institutions and researchers in Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

The Program supports workshops, short-term planning visits, dissertation enhancement, and research experiences for students.

With the exception of special OISE program activities and AMERICAS regional funding opportunities (see below), all international collaborative research proposals should be submitted directly to the appropriate NSF research directorate.

AMERICAS contact information:
Use this link to the NSF Staff Directory section for AMERICAS. Use this link to the OISE Staff Assignments by Country page.

e-mail: amerinfo@nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-8706
FAX: 703-292-9175
mailing address:
    AMERICAS Program, Suite 935
    Office of International Science and Engineering
    National Science Foundation
    4201 Wilson Boulevard
    Arlington, VA 22230

Special AMERICAS regional opportunities:

• The Department of Energy and the NSF support a limited number of Pan American Advanced Studies Institutes (PASI) modeled on the NATO Advanced Studies Institutes. Pan American Advanced Studies Institutes are short courses of two to four weeks duration at the advanced graduate and postgraduate level. PASIs aim to disseminate advanced scientific knowledge and stimulate training and cooperation among researchers of the Americas in the basic sciences and engineering fields. Currently, only institutes in any physical, mathematical, biological science discipline and/or engineering fields may be supported. Whenever feasible, an interdisciplinary approach is recommended.

  Additional details about this program can be found on the PASI Funding Opportunity page.

AMERICAS Award Search
Use this link to generate a list of awards funded by the AMERICAS program within the past year - AMERICAS Program Awards Search. When the award list is displayed, you can click on the award title to obtain an abstract-length general description of the research.

AMERICAS counterpart organizations:

• Argentina - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
• Brazil - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
• Chile - Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT)
• Mexico - Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)
• Venezuela - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICIT)