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ORIENTED BASIC RESEARCH CONTEST 2005


Paying great attention to protection and support of unique scientific-technical potential of the Russian Federation and its use for economical, social and cultural development of the country, acknowledging importance of transition to wide use of the results of fundamental scientific researches in the process of creating breakthrough technologies in radio electronics, aviation, shipbuilding, nuclear and other industries, nuclear and radiation security of Russian Federation.
Russian Foundation for Basic Research announces new contests for the year 2005 to provide financial support for oriented fundamental research.
RFFI’s committee, according to its resolution from 17th of December 2004 has determined, that the main objective of the contests oriented at fundamental research shall be further promotion of previous fundamental researches supported by scientific organizations, if in the process of these projects researchers have received certain fundamental results and have discovered possibility of their further application in the process of creation of new breakthrough technologies, new materials and services.
RFFI contests in the year 2005. Foundation announces following contests oriented at fundamental research:
- "ofi-a" – oriented prospecting fundamental research, conducted by small groups of scientists, with the main objective to develop new breakthrough technologies in Russian Federation.
- "ofi-p"- oriented prospecting fundamental research, conducted by small groups of scientists, aimed at execution of scientific tasks, formulated and financed by Federal Industrial Agency (Rosprom) in the years 2005-2006 in the framework of Federal target programs.
Special value, in this contest, will be given to oriented fundamental research, assisting to fulfillment of the objectives, related with creation of new material’s technologies; electronic components; technologies for calculation, information and telecommunication systems; technologies of optoelectronic, laser and infrared systems; power and energy-supply technologies; chemical and catalytic technologies; technology of energy-saturated materials; biotechnologies and technologies providing reliable and clean environment.
- "ofi-e"- oriented prospecting fundamental research, conducted by small groups of scientists assisting to fulfillment of scientific objectives, formulated and financed by Federal Agency on Nuclear Energy (Rosatom) for the years 2005-2006. Special attention in this contest will be paid to oriented fundamental research of high-temperature plasma properties with the aim to create source of energy based on nuclear fusion reaction; oriented fundamental research in the area of nuclear physics and elementary-particle physics to create new promising technologies, and technologies for nuclear science; oriented fundamental research, needed for strategic development of nuclear industry, creation of new generation reactors and progressive technologies of nuclear-fuel cycle, including source of fissionable raw materials, construction and development of especially clean materials for nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel, operations with highly- and low- radiation waste materials, science of radiation materials, analytical services.
- "ofi-g"- organization and fulfillment on the territory of Russian Federation in the year 2005 of limited number of Domestic and International scientific events, related to the problem of use of the fundamental research results in various areas of Russian economy.
The term for application submission for the oriented fundamental research contests in the year 2005.
From 01 of February 2005 till15 of March 2005.

CONTEST CONDITIONS
General provisions. All types of support for oriented fundamental research are conducted by the foundation on competitive basis irrespective to age, academic status, academic degree or position chaired by a scientist, and industrial affiliation of the organizations, employing scientists and specialists.
Every scientist and specialist at the same moment may participate in several types of RFFI contests.
For the contests "ofi-a", "ofi-p", "ofi-e" scientist and specialist have the right as a manager to submit only one application at a time and, respectively, at the end of contests may head only one project, which have received financial support from RFFI in the direction – oriented fundamental research (including contest "ofi-a" 2004 year).
For the contests "ofi-a", "ofi-p", "ofi-e" scientist or specialist, heading the project, may simultaneously participate as a member in other projects, but he might receive financing as participant only in one project. It is prohibited to participate as a participant in the project, headed by and official administrative subordinate.
One of the conditions of financial support provided by the Foundation is a reference, made by scientists and specialists about the fact that their works were supported by the foundation made in published materials related to supported projects.
Obligatory condition is consent, given to the Foundation by the authors to publish project report (in hardcopy and electronic format).
Project participants shall spend financial means provided by the Foundation only for the purposes, specified in the application. Foundation shall abstain from giving recommendations on changes or additions in defining projects, presented for the contest.
Foundation publishes the list of supported projects.
Expertise. All the applications approved for the contest shall pass multi-level independent expertise. Information about the content of projects and independent expertise is strictly confidential. According to the rules of the Foundation experts and coworkers of the foundation shall have no right to disseminate it. Foundation will not provide any information to applicant about reasons why the project was declined – verbally or as a review of the project.
Peculiarities of contests in the year 2005 – Oriented fundamental research.

Following are the obligatory conditions for contest participation for the group of scientists:
- previous participation in projects supported by Russian Foundation for fundamental research (including international and regional ones)
Or
- participation in fundamental research projects, previously executed by scientific-research organizations of Russian Federation, included in the work-plans of these organizations, scientific-research projects which have passed State registration.
Objective of the contest: on the basis of special system of criteria, on the stage of execution of oriented fundamental researches it is necessary to discover possibilities of practical application of the results of such fundamental researches for creation of the foundation for future technologies, materials, equipment or the services. Closeness to project completion is a very important factor. As a rule, projects have to be brought to the condition of laboratory sample or a prototype, demonstrating key advantages of new technology (devise, material).
These results shall provide an opportunity for creation of absolutely new products, breakthrough technologies and services (contest "ofi-a"), or they shall assist to progress in solving scientific objectives, set in the course of realization of Federal programs, ordered by Federal Industrial Agency or the Federal Agency on Nuclear Energy (contests "ofi-p" and "ofi-e"). In the course of contest expert committee of RFFI, with the participation of representatives of Rosprom and Rosatom (in the framework of acting agreements) shall select the projects oriented at fundamental studies, which, being based on fundamental idea, demonstrates results, aimed for application in the programs of Rosprom and Rosatom.
Applications for the contests "ofi-a", "ofi-p" and "ofi-e" consist of title page (form "T" and four chapters, prepared on the basis of forms 1 (see Annex), 2, 3 (see newspaper "Poisk" №17-18 dated from 30 of April 2004) and 24 (see Annex).
Peculiarities of the "ofi-g" contest – organization and execution of the limited number of domestic Russian and international scientific events on the territory of the Russian Federation, related with issues of applying results of fundamental researches in the economy of Russian Federation. Foundation will accept for review on competitive basis limited number of applications for scientific events, program of such events will include wide spectrum of results of the fundamental studies which can be applied for practical purposes, along with fundamental problems of extending connections between science and industrial production, realization of scientific achievements and assisting to development of science intensive technologies. Application for the contest "ofi-g" consists of title page (form "T") and three chapters, prepared according to the forms 2 (for the head of the organizing committee), 3 (for the organization, which has been determined as a basis for holding the conference) and 6, and has to include all additional documents, required in the process of contest application registration for the contest "g" (see the newspaper "Poisk" № 17-18 from 30th of April 2004).

Full text of the given announcement and application forms in the electronic format are presented at RFFI’s web server (URL: http://www.rfbr.ru or http://www.rffi.ru).

   
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