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| Country | Agency | Date Started | Date Ended | Fund Level | Description |
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| Bulgaria | NSF | Feb 14, 1995 | Termination date: Indefinite | Funding not specified | Joint research, seminars and workshops. |
| Chile | DOC (NTIA) | Jul 11, 1994 | Jul 11, 1999 | Funding not specified | Other parties involved: Department of State and FCC. The three parties intend to develop a work program that will define the specific areas of scientific and technical cooperation. |
| China | DOC (NTIS) | May 19, 1990 | May 22, 1996 | Funding not specified | Information exchange. |
| China | NSF | Jan 16, 1995 | Jan 15, 2000 | Activities shall be paid upon mutual agreement on a case-by-case basis. | Executive agents for China: The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the State Education Commission, and the National Natural Science Foundation of the People's Republic of China. Executive agent for the U.S.: The National Science Foundation. To cooperate in all the fields of basic sciences like science, engineering and the social sciences, physical sciences, life sciences, behavioral and social sciences, engineering, history of science, research and development management, science and technology policy, and such other subfields and disciplines of science, engineering, or related activities as are mutually agreed. |
| Czech Republic | NSF | Jul 13, 1994 | Automatic renewal for successive 5 yr. periods. | Funding not specified | Supersedes 6/27/88 MOU with Czechoslovakia. Cooperative research projects, joint seminars and workshops. |
| European Union | US Gov (DOS) | Oct 30, 1990 | On-going agreement | Funding not specified | Signed in Washington 10/30/90; in Brussels 11/12/90. Exchange of letters between Dr. Bromley, Assistant to the President for S&T, and EC Vice President Pandolfi, establishing a Joint Consultative Group on Science and Technology between the Government of the U.S. and the Commission of the European Communities. |
| Finland | DOC (NTIS) | Oct 1, 1990 | Dec 31, 1999 | Funding not specified | Information exchange. |
| France | DOC (NTIS) | Apr 1, 1984 | Dec 31, 1999 | Funding not specified | Information exchange. |
| Germany | DOC (NTIS) | Jan 1, 1990 | Jun 30, 1999 | Funding not specified | Information Exchange. |
| Hungary | NSF | Jul 7, 1982 | Jul 7, 1997 | Funding not specified | NSF MTA Scientific and Technological Cooperation MOU: Joint research, seminars, and workshops; covers all aspects of basic and applied natural and engineering sciences, social sciences, and mathematics. An earlier generation of this agreement (NSF/KKI July '72) predated the umbrella. |
| India | US Gov (DOS) | Oct 28, 1974 | Termination date: Indefinite | No U.S. funding | Joint Commission on Economic, Commercial, Scientific, Technological, Educational, and Cultural Cooperation. The S&T Subcommission was created under the authority of Joint Commission. Advisory body identifies, promotes and reviews; collaborative work. There has been no action in the past years. |
| India | US Gov (DOS,USIA) | Jan 1, 1987 | Jan 1, 1998 | Established fund of $110 million worth of U.S.-owned rupees plus accrued interest. Fund must be spent by Jan. 1997. 300 projects funded by USIF. | Agreement for Educational, Cultural and Scientific Cooperation (USIF) administered by the Department of State (S&T) and USIA (E&C). Fund must be spent by Jan. 1997 for cooperative activities in science and technology (2/3), and for education and culture (1/3). Currently, over 300 projects involving 20 technical agencies are funded by USIF. The Secretary of State has overall responsibility. |
| Indonesia | NSF | Oct 5, 1994 | Oct 5, 1999 | Funding not specified | Joint reseach, seminars, workshops, short-term visits. |
| Israel | DOC | Jan 18, 1994 | Jan 18, 1999 | : US $15 million per year, matched in local funding. | MOU creating United States Israel S&T Commission to promote cooperative activities that could benefit the high technology commercial sectors of the two countries. Executive agent is the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. |
| Israel | NSF | Jun 26, 1991 | Jun 26, 1996 | Funding not specified | MOU originally signed by NCRD/NSF 5/85 for personnel and information exchanges in basic and applied sciences. |
| Israel | US Gov (DOS) | Sep 27, 1972 | On-going agreement | Basic science research is funded with an annual endowment of $11 million. | Government to Government Agreement establishing Binational Science Foundation. |
| Israel | US Gov (DOS) | Oct 25, 1977 | On-going agreement | Funding from $100 million endowment. | Government to Government Agreement establishing Binational Agricultural R&D Foundation. |
| Israel | US Gov (DOS) | May 18, 1977 | On-going agreement | Funding by endowment. | Government to Government Agreement establishing Binational Industrial R&D Foundation. |
| Japan | DOC | Jul 8, 1994 | Jul 8, 1999 | Funding not specified | Agreement for cooperation in civil industrial technologies. Executive agent for Japan is the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Director of American Affairs of International Research and Development Cooperation Division. Executive agent for U.S. is the Technology Administration Coordinator in the Department of Commerce. IPR Annex. |
| Japan | DOC (NIST) | Jun 10, 1994 | Jun 9, 1999 | Funding not specified | Originally signed 10/4/84, renewed 9/14/89 and 06/10/94. MOU with Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT), which is a private corporation ; joint research on semiconductors, telecommunications, computers and computer networking, time and frequency measurements, and related fields. |
| Japan | NSF | Jun 1, 1988 | Jan 10, 1999 | Funding not specified | This is a long-standing agreement, last renewed Jan. 11, 1994. Independent agreement with the Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST/MITI) to send U.S. researchers to AIST labs. |
| Japan | NSF | Sep 10, 1992 | Mar 13, 1997 | Funding not specified | Japan's Center for Global Partnership provides funding to NSF to support American scientists and engineers to conduct research in Japanese corporate, government and academic laboratories. |
| Japan | US Gov (NSF) | Jun 26, 1961 | Termination date: Indefinite | Funding not specified | Under the auspices of the U.S.-Japan Committee on Scientific Cooperation, the NSF and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science implement the U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program in support of cooperative research programs and joint seminars. |
| Korea | NSF | May 24, 1977 | Dec 6, 1998 | Funding not specified. | Last renewed in Dec. 7, 1993. NSF-KOSEF MOU supports cooperative research, joint seminars, and scientific visits; in a July 1995 implementation agreement under the MOU, KOSEF agreed to provide $1 million annually in support of the Summer Institute in Korea, the Exchange of Scientists and Engineers, and Linking of Research Centers. |
| Pakistan | US Gov (DOS) | Dec 6, 1982 | Termination date: Indefinite | Funding not specified | Agreement to establish a Joint Commission on Economic, Commercial, Scientific, Technological, Educational and Cultural Cooperation. S&T Subcommission formed under authority of Joint Commission. |
| Philippines, the | Smithsonian Institution | Nov 9, 1989 | Nov 9, 1994: Self-renewing agreement every 5 years. | Funding not specified | MOU with the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines (DFA) in order to recognize and encourage the establishment and implementation of individual cooperative scientific research and cultural collaborative agreements in the fields of natural sciences and culture, resulting in scientific publications and other forms of relevant communication, with emphasis on collaboration and joint authorship. |
| Poland | NSF | Oct 30, 1994 | Termination date: Indefinite | Funding not specified | MOU under 1987 S&T umbrella agreement provides for joint research projects, and seminars and workshops. |
| Russia | NSF | Feb 7, 1997 | Feb 6, 2002 | Funding not specified | MOU between NSF (signed by Lane) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research on Cooperation in Basic Scientific Research (signed by Fortov). The scope of the cooperation covers all branches of science excluding research in the clinical medical sciences, and business administration. The MOU's objectives are to encourage and increase cooperation in the basic sciences between researchers and institutions of the two countries, to provide opportunities for the exchange of information, ideas, skills, and techniques, to address problems of common interest, and to utilize facilities and equipment available to both countries for scientific research. The Program consists of two elements: Cooperative Research and Joint Seminars and Workshops. IPR protected under the larger U.S.-Russian Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement signed 12/16/93. |
| Russia | NSF | Jun 23, 1994 | Jun 22, 1999: Self-renewing agreement every 5 years. | Each side shares in the effort and cost of each activity. | MOU on Cooperation in Basic Sciences (all branches of science excluding research in clinical medical sciences, and business administration), especially cooperative research projects, joint seminars and workshops. MOU renews agreement with USSR which expired 5/94. NSF is the U.S. Executive Agent, and the Russian Academy of Sciences is theRussian Executive Agent. IPR protected. Further details in funding not specified. |
| Russia | NSF | Feb 7, 1997 | Feb 6, 2002 | Funding not specified | MOU between NSF(signed by Lane) and the State Committee for Science and Technologies (SCST) of Russia on Cooperation in Advanced Scientific Computing (signed by Fortov). The purposes of this MOU are to identify and agree on the most promising directions of U.S.-Russian cooperation in the field of advanced scientific computing and to create a mechanism to coordinate cooperation in this field. IPR protected under the larger U.S.-Russian Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement signed 12/16/93. |
| Slovak Republic | NSF | Jul 14, 1994 | Self-renewing agreement every 5-year periods. | Funding not specified | Supersedes 6/27/88 MOU with Czechoslovakia. Cooperative research projects, joint seminars and workshops. |
| Sweden | DOC (NTIS) | Nov 1, 1990 | Dec 31, 1999 | Funding not specified | Information exchange. |
| Taiwan | DOC (NTIS) | Nov 17, 1987 | Termination date: Indefinite | Funding not specified | Info exchange; provides for the collection of S&T and engineering info in the territory represented by AIT for provision to general public through NTIS. |
| Taiwan | NSF | Jan 7, 1981 | Termination date: Indefinite | Funding not specified | Joint research, seminars, workshops, short-term visits. |
| United Kingdom | DOC (NTIS) | Jan 1, 1982 | Dec 31, 1999 | Funding not specified | Information exchange. |
