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REPUBLIC OF CROATIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND SPORTS

Unity through Knowledge Fund www.ukf.hr

Planinska 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia +385 1 2352 616

Unity through Knowledge Fund: first Calls for Proposals open

Unity through Knowledge Fund has recently launched its first program and
announced the Calls for Proposals for financing joint research projects of Croatian expatriate scientists and experts with their Croatian colleagues.

The Fund has been created by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Technology and
Sports with the aim to use potential and establish cooperation between the
Croatian scientific and professional Diaspora. The Fund is going to finance
collaborative research projects and knowledge-based business activities of
expatriates and Croatian researchers, institutions and companies.

Both researchers from Diaspora and Croatia may apply for financial support of
the projects that are to be based on Croatian organizations. The Fund will
support only those projects that create added values to Croatian economy and
society, and those that stimulate transfer of knowledge and investments to
Croatia.

Two Committees in charge of the Fund, which include the eminent scientists and
experts, will be deciding about the allocation of the support. They will use the
assistance of the peer review of international independent experts. Total
resources planned for the next three years amount to 5 million euros, including a
3,7 million euros from the World Bank credit. More information about the open
calls, the Fund's procedures and guidelines for applications can be found on the
websites of the Fund (www.ukf.hr) or the Ministry (www.mzos.hr).

Currently open calls are intended either for the excellent researchers who made
their careers abroad in order to establish new projects in Croatia (Homeward
Grant), or for the excellent Croatian researchers who wish to create a
cooperation with partners abroad (Crossing Borders Grant). Individual grants can
amount up to 200.000 EUR for a three-year period, and can cover maximum 90
percent of the total project costs. Proposals can be submitted until the end of
May 2007.

After the launching of the first program, the Fund will soon open calls other types
of grants too, aimed at young researchers, commercialization of research,
intellectual property protection and enhancing international mobility of Croatian
scientists. All supported projects will contribute to the Fund’s mission of unifying
scientific and professional potential of Croatia and Diaspora in the development
of the knowledge based society.

Zagreb, 21st of March 2007

Hrvoje Meštric, Ph.D.
Program manager

REPUBLIC OF CROATIA MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND SPORTS
Unity through Knowledge Fund www.ukf.hr
Planinska 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia +385 1 2352 616

Fond »Jedinstvo uz pomoc znanja«: otvoreni prvi natjecaji za financiranje

Fond »Jedinstvo uz pomoc znanja« upravo je otvorio prve natjecaje za financiranje zajednickih istraživanja znanstvenika i strucnjaka iz dijaspore s partnerima u domovini.

Cilj ovog Fonda, kojega je pokrenulo Ministarstvo znanosti, obrazovanja i športa,
jest poticanje suradnje s hrvatskom znanstvenom i strucnom dijasporom. Fond
financira znanstvene projekte i na znanju utemeljene gospodarske aktivnosti
hrvatskih znanstvenika u inozemstvu sa znanstvenicima, institucijama i tvrtkama
u domovini.

Znanstvenici i strucnjaci kako iz dijaspore tako iz domovine mogu se natjecati za
potporu istraživanja koja ce se provoditi na hrvatskim institucijama i tvrtkama.
Podupirat ce se iskljucivo projekti koji stvaraju nove vrijednosti u hrvatskom
gospodarstvu i društvu, odnosno koji doprinose priljevu znanja i investicija.

Povjerenstva Fonda, koja cine ugledni hrvatski strucnjaci i znanstvenici, odabirat
ce najbolje projekte za financiranje uz pomoc nezavisnog i anonimnog
medunarodnog vrednovanja. Ukupna sredstva Fonda predvidena za sljedece tri
godine iznose 37 milijuna kuna, od kojih je dio od 27 milijuna kuna osiguran iz
kredita Svjetske banke. Više informacija o raspisanim prvim javnim natjecajima
Fonda, kao i plan rada Fonda i smjernice za prijavu, može se pronaci na
internetskim stranicama Fonda (www.ukf.hr) i Ministarstva (www.mzos.hr).

Trenutno otvorene potpore namijenjene su i uspješnim znanstvenicima u
inozemstvu za pokretanje novih projekata u Hrvatskoj (potpora »Na putu kuci«),
ali i izvrsnim znanstvenicima u domovini koji žele uspostaviti suradnju s
partnerima (hrvatskog porijekla) u inozemstvu (potpora »Preko granice«).
Potpore za pojedinacni projekt mogu iznositi do milijun i pol kuna za trogodišnje
razdoblje, i pokrivat ce do 90 posto ukupnih troškova istraživanja. Rok za prijavu
traje do kraja svibnja 2007.

Nakon prvog kruga, Fond ce uskoro raspisati i druge natjecaje, namijenjene
mladim znanstvenicima, komercijalizaciji istraživanja, zaštiti intelektualnog
vlasništva i povecavanju medunarodne pokretljivosti znanstvenika, s ciljem
iskorištavanja potencijala hrvatske znanstvene i strucne dijaspore za razvoj
društva utemeljenog na znanju.

dr. sc. Hrvoje Meštric,
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