Archives: Grants

Grants 2002-2006

The ICSU Grants programme was suspended and reviewed in 2007.

Prior to 2007 ICSU, with generous financial support from UNESCO, awarded 10-15 grants annually to support collaborative projects proposed by its members. This "seed-corn funding" (maximum $100k) was often used to lever funding from other sources.

Grants were considered in five priority areas::

1. Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
2. Capacity building and Science Education
3. Science – Policy Interface
4. Dissemination of Data and Information on Science and Technology
5. Emerging Science and Technology – Creation of New Knowledge

• Grants 2006
• Grants 2005
• Grants 2004
• Grants 2003
• Grants 2002

Grants 2006

List of grants awarded 2006 :

Lead Applicant	Title of Proposal	Award ($US)
SCOPE/IUGG,SCOR	Dynamics of semi-enclosed marine ecosystems: the integrated effects of changes in sediment and nutrient inputs from land	50 000
IGBP/WCRP	Earth System Vulnerabilities: the Permafrost-carbon climate system	50 000
IUBS / 17 Unions, DIVERSITAS, SCOPE	Science for Health and Well Being (SHWB)	50 000
	Total	150 000

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Grants 2005

List of grants awarded 2005 :

Lead Applicant	Title of Proposal	Award ($US)
CODATA	E-Science and the Information Society: the road to Tunis	100 000
WCRP	Scenarios to Aid Regional Food Security Policy Formulation	94 650
IUGG	Augmenting Groundwater Resources by Artificial Recharge in S.E. Asia	49 500
IUPHAR	Consolidation and annotation of knowledge concerning receptors and sites for drug action in the human genome	100 000
DIVERSITAS	Biodiversity and Ecosystem Carbon Storage	32 850
IGU	Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Development: networking local area partnerships with teachers and young scientists	93 000
	Total	470 000

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Grants 2004

List of grants awarded 2004 :

Lead Applicant	Title of Proposal	Award ($US)
IGBP	Rapid Assessment Project: A review of Global Change in Monsoon Asia	100,000
IUGS	Dark Nature-Rapid Natural Change & Human Responses	100,000
IUHPS	Online Dictionary of National History of Sciences Bibliographies and Archival Sources	85,000
IUPsyS	Human Dimensions of Global Change: Human Perceptions and Behaviour in Sustainable Water Use	90,000
IUTAM	Foundation of an African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)	100,000
SCOPE	International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) -Phase 1, Assessing the state of knowledge of N dynamics in ecosystems	100,000
IAU	Comet/Asteroid Impacts and Human Society	100,000
CODATA	Inter-American Data Workshop Access to Environmental Data	30,000
IGBP	Global Iron Connections: Review of Scientific Knowledge of the Global Iron Cycle	40,000
SCL	Preservation of Data from WWSSN Film Chips	43,976
SCOPE	Biodiversity, Health & the Environment - a SCOPE/DIVERSITAS Rapid Assessment Project	50,000
	Total	838 976

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Grants 2003

List of grants awarded 2003 :

Lead Applicant	Title of Proposal	Award ($US)
DIVERSITAS	Towards an implementation strategy for DIVERSITAS	100,000
IGBP	Toward an integrated study of asian monsoon system	96,000
CODATA	Development of a comprehensive information on natural gas hydrates	100,000
IHDP	South African Vulnerability Initiative	90,000
SCOPE	Southern African savannas network	80,000
IUSS	Polygenic models for pleistocene paleosols	47,000
INQUA	Past Hydrological events	45,000
SCOPE	Biodiversity in soil and sediments & ecosystem	35,000
IMU	An International perspective on the Education of K-12 Mathematics	10,000
CODATA	Promoting open access and the public domain in digital data	45,000
IGBP	Building integrated earth system science on the land-atmosphere	39,000
IUGG	Rescue of old analogue magnetograms by converting to digital image	35,000
DIVERSITAS	Assessing impacts of biodiversity changes	40,800
COSPAR	Capacity Building Workshop -X-ray Astronomy -Physics of Magnetosphere	50,000
FAGS	Collection, Compilation, Analysis and Distribution of Data	25,000
IUBS	International Symposium on Biological Sciences, Development and Society	40,000
	Total	877 800

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Grants 2002

List of grants awarded 2002 :

Lead Applicant	Activity	Award ($US)
IUGS	Metals, Health and the Environment	45 000
SCOPE	Environmental Implications of endocrine active substances	100 000
SCOPE	Emerging Environmental Issues	80 000
PSA	Dissemination of Biodiversity Data	90 000
IUBS	Workshop on Integrative Biology	30 000
IUPAB	Latin American Network for Capacity Building in Biophysics	49 600
IUGG	Intermagnet Real-Time Global Digital Magnetic Obs. Net	12 000
IGU	Extreme Weather Events	40 000
IMU	Intl.Perspective on Standards & Goals for K-12 Math. Edn.	10 000
IUPAP	Women in Physics	45 000
IUSS	Environmental Impact of GMC	48 000
FAGS	Collection, Compilation, Analysis & Distribution of Data	45 000
CODATA	Electronic Journal on Data Science	15 000
IUCAF	Radio Frequency Interface	10 000
SCOR	Future of ocean Research	50 000
SCOR	Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study	40 000
WDC	Rescue of Russian Hydrologic & Geomagnetic Data	5 000
	Total	714 600