CISE International Partnerships
Credit: U.S. National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation encourages U.S. scientists and engineers and their institutions to enhance their research and education activities through international collaborations. NSF's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) supports a number of activities to foster collaborations between the U.S. research and education community and international partners.
The CISE international partnership portfolio
Canada
NSF 22-031. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Collaborative Research Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Science
Topics: Artificial intelligence and quantum science.
Czech Republic
NSF 23-094. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and Czech Science Foundation Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and privacy, and other topics.
Finland
NSF 21-035. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and Academy of Finland Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: Artificial intelligence and wireless communications.
France
NSF 21-020. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: All CISE core topics.
France, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
NSF 20-609. Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience.
Topics: Innovative approaches to science and engineering research on brain function.
Germany
NSF 23-051. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals in Cybersecurity Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.V.) Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: Cybersecurity.
India
NSF 23-114. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals under U.S. National Science Foundation and the Department of Science and Technology of India Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: CISE core topics, cyber-physical systems and cybersecurity.
Israel
NSF 20-094. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: All CISE core topics.
Multiple countries
NSF 22-046. Dear Colleague Letter: International Collaboration Supplements in National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
Republic of Ireland/Northern Ireland
NSF 20-064. Dear Colleague Letter: United States-Ireland-Northern Ireland Research and Development Partnership.
Topics: Nanoscale science and engineering, sensors and sensor networks, telecommunications, energy and sustainability, and cybersecurity.
South Korea
NSF 21-079. Dear Colleague Letter: Special Guidelines for Submitting Collaborative Proposals Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and South Korean Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation Collaborative Research Opportunities.
Topics: Wireless communication technology.
United Kingdom
NSF 23-128. Dear Colleague Letter: U.S.-UK Research Collaboration under the NSF-UKRI/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Lead Agency Opportunity.
Topics: Select programs and topics.
Past partnerships
Australia
NSF-22-086. Dear Colleague Letter: Announcing Collaboration Opportunities in Responsible and Equitable Artificial Intelligence Under the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.
Topics: Artificial intelligence topics.
European Union
NSF 21-048. Dear Colleague Letter: Supplemental Funding Requests to Conduct U.S.-EU Collaborative Research.
Supplemental funding for active NSF-funded researchers.
Japan
NSF 21-624. Japan-U.S. Network Opportunity.
Collaborative research for programmable networking for next generation core and beyond 5G/6G networks.
India
NSF 22-040. Dear Colleague Letter: Supplemental Funding Requests to Conduct U.S.-India Collaborative Research.
Supplemental funding for active NSF-funded researchers.